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1* Connors Corn er By "CHUCK" CONNORS ■ Chiel of Chart Correspondents BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. YM June 18. — The result of the Belmont Stakes is only 48 hours old, but a lot of trainers are beginning to look forward to next year. Hope for the future is one of the strongest attributes possessed by a trainer and many claim next year may be different. C. V. Whitney was very happy when his Counterpoint won as was jockey Dave Gorman and tr.ainer Syl Veitch. George.D. Widener and Harry F. Guggenheim", whose nominees finished second and third, were disappointed, while Jack Amiel was dumbfounded by the showing of his Derby winner, Count Turf. Trainer Sol Rutchick was at a lost for words, but George "Slim" Sully, who saddled the colt for the Derby, expressed his disappointment in a few thousand well chosen words. Mr. and Mrs. John Hertz, whose sire Count Fleet gave Counterpoint to the racing world, were immensely pleased with the result and their enthusiasm was unbounded when earlier they had learned that a daughter of their horse, * Kiss Me Kate, had accounted for the Delaware* Oaks. The press agents who were on hand, Ev Clay, of Hialeah, Fred Purner, of Santa Anita, and Brownie Leach, from Churchill Downs, let it be known that their tracks had something, to do or will have something: to say in the future about the success of the winner. Clay, for the record, said that Counterpoint spent a winter in the health giving: climate of Miami, Leach stressed the fact that Count Fleet and Reigh Count, sire and grandsire of the winner, had won the Derby, while Purner came up with the enlightening information that Counterpoint was eligible for the worlds richest race, the Maturity. Oh hum, there you are. Sphinx is a four-year-old filly with a frustration. Whether the daughter of Iso-later and Woodford Belle was born that way, or acquired it, will never be .known. However, the miss, who in her three years of racing has failed to graduate from the non-winners ranks, got rid of some of her inhibitions the other afternoon. Sphinx was raced on Friday and finished in the ruck, and was walking back to her stall in the receiving barn in a very docile manner. A few yards from the barn something popped and the miss went berserk to vent her spleen against the mechanical age in which we live. Her* targets were some bright shiny automobiles that were parked in the vicinity of her temporary quarters. Before she was subdued the miss had left the imprint of her steel-shod hoofs on fenders, doors, head lamps and hoods. The astonished owners, when they arrived to pick up their respective cars after the races, were under the impression that a tornado had dipped in and wreaked the damage. Sphinx, fully satisfied, went back to Jamaica none the worse for her escapade which left trainer P. Greco and owner R. Green wondering about the future when the damage bills are presented. A. Basser, of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Jockey Club, was a week-end visitor. The trip was his first to Belmont and he expressed delight over the entire scene . . . Gustave Ring came up from Washington, D. C. for the week-end but returned to the nations capital today TheH. P. Head-ley horses will be shipped to Arlington Park for racing during that meeting. . . Trainer C. M. Feltner shipped Bob Con-sidine, Incline and Harriet W. to Delaware Park for engagements at that point Dan Chappell, following the running of the Belmont, planed back to Miami. Press of business keeps him away from " the races and his nose to the grindstone. Mrs. E. Small Moore deserted Delaware Park for a few days. . .Ben F. OShea and Frank J. Heller, who race under the nom de course of the Lester Manor Stable, were among the afternoons visitors. . .A. J. .Sackett came up from his Richmond, Va., farm for a few days. . .Leslie Combs n. checked out for Spendthrift Farm following several days in this area... Abe S. Hewitt was on hand to say hello to one and all . Jerry Brady planed to Miami on Tropical Park business and then will move on to Chicago for a few days at Arlington Park ...Leslie Kiefer, who returned to the Maryland breeders ranks, was a recent visitor,.. Danny Arnstein deserted the taxi business for the less turbulent Belmont scene. . .Edwin C. Hill compared this years Continued on Page Forty -Four Connors Corner Continued from Page Five x Belmont against a flock-of others that he witnessed and expressed himself as satisfied J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, a couple of fellows who are high up on the hate list of the underworld, were on hand. Alan T. Bower, Jr., of the thorough-, bred painting: set, gave the thoroughbreds a good going, over. ..Tom. Sheehan checked back to the New England sector following, the. big. week-end.. John Royal, of the NBC, deserted the airwaves . for a more closer inspection of the big: name horses .. JHialeah next winter will be mechanized. The big percherons which pulled the harrows around during the afternoon between races will he replaced by tractors. The oversized equines were sold to Fred W. Hooper who moved them to his Montgomery, Ala., farm for prosaic farm work. . .Mrs. George Strate is at the Harkness Pavilion, awaiting an operation this week.. Dr. Alberto Inclan, one bf Havanas outstanding surgeons and breeder of thoroughbreds, stopped off at Carl Roses OcaUi, Fla., farm for a look-see before arriving here for a lengthy stay . The meeting between Joe Eitingers Jet Master and William Goadby Loews The Pimpernel in the Tremont went a glimmering this morning. Jet Master will start in the Aqueduct juvenile fixture but The Pimpernel is destined for the Dover Stakes down at Delaware Park . John Gaver will ship Hall of Fame, owned by Greentree, to Delaware for his Kent engagement. Ted Atkinson will do the riding. . .Wallace Gilroy and Charlie Kenny were in a huddle over the week-end, broodmares and breeding were the topics . R. J. Kleberg planed back to his "Little King Ranch" which is near Coatesville, Pa Sam E. Wilsons Royal Mustang, following his Belmont effort, "is ArlingtonPark bound for some engagements at that track. . .Ed Christmas checked in with a draft of two-year-olds from Laurel. MIKE M. in the second, ALL IS WELL in the fifth and GRAY MATTER in the . sixth.
