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1 Connors Corner By "CHUCK" CONNORS Chief of Chart Correspondents 1 AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 26.— The boys and girls of the clubhouse set, following the lead set by the paddock gang, are clamoring for some kind of a special race, over a distance of ground, between Count Turf, Bold and Counterpoint. This trio accounted for the Derby, Preakness and Belmont, respectively. New York is not partial to staging special races, as the past attempts that were made proved none too successful in a racing way. The last on the agenda was between Armed and Assault and that proved something of a fiasco. Previous to that a special was arranged between Top Flight and Tred Avon which blew up when one of the contestants went amiss several days before the running. Counterpoint at the moment is high in favor with the crowd as the top three-year-old due to his iriumph in the Belmont and previous to that the Peter Pan. Bold was scratched from the Belmont when he developed a case of bucked shins in a race in which he was whipped by Count Turf and Combat Boots. The Dwyer Stakes, which is on the agenda for Saturday, July 7, is over the mile and one-quarter distance and all three of these are named. This race grants allowances but none of this trio are eligible for that bonus for all have won more than the stipulated 5,000. The talk, centering about the special offering, stems from the mishap to Bold for the boys fear that when July 7 rolls around he may not be tightened for that race and be among the absentees. However, such being the case, the boys and girls may have to wait until later in the year for a clash between the three. Mike McGee was an Aqueduct visitor yesterday. He is a son of the well known trainer Jimmy and was recently given a medical discharge by Uncle Sam. He will, leave for Monmouth tomorrow . . . Trainer Max Hirsch will ship Renew, owned by the King Ranch, to Delaware Park to start in the New Castle Handicap this week-end. She will be ridden by Bill Boland ... A mobile unit of the Red Cross was stationed in the paddock this morning and x-ray chest pictures were the daily special. . .Two potentials for the Shevlin and Dwyer arrived from Delaware. They were Mully S. and Alerted . . The news from Albany relative to the adoption of a consolation Double struck a responsive chord with the longshot punters. The edict is the aftermath of the recent scratching of the Cain Hoy Stables Rub-Adub-Dub from the second race following the success of the long-priced Betsy Marie in the days opener. Level Sands, who represented C. V. Whitney in Mondays two-year-old offer - Continued on Page Thirty-Five g g g ,s J " s_" " ~ B e s of •f g k k - 1 Connors Corner Continued from Page Five ing, is named for the book the owner recently " authored, "Lone and Level Sands." ... A shack for the convenience of the e press photographers was erected back of * the "tote" board. The new quarters will eliminate considerable running about. . . The Greentree Stables Hall of Fame was j returned to his Belmont Park headquarters today from Delaware . . . Trainer D. J. Falcone ; returned Gray Matter, which he acquired earlier from H. P. Headley, from an n out-of-town engagement . . George Coburn n was one of four brothers who entered racing around the turn of the century. He e started out as a rider but never scaled the re heights that were achieved by his brother, "Monk." Another brother, Jim, served as his agent for a while. John is the sole survivor ._ ~_ of the quartet. . Harry Mozley Stev- ens H., of the catering clan, returned from n a birthday celebration staged at Cape Cod, up on the New England coast. . .The Put-man ._ Stables Combat Boots is back at jl Jamaica following an out-of-town engagement... ,_ Dr. Alberto Inclan came on from Havana, Cuba, for a few days racing. He [e visited the Carl Rose thoroughbred nursery ,y at Ocala, Fla., and was immensely pleased jj with the farm and buildings. Hal Goodwin shipped Kings Daisy to Monmouth Park to fill an engagement there tomorrow in the Regret Handicap. Jockey K. Stuart will do the riding. . . Trainer George M. Odom reported that it never rains but it pours. He was, of I course, referring to the accidents to Jet Master and Navy Chief . Major Albert I ! Warner received word from his brother Harry, in Los Angeles, that everything was in good condition at the farm and I that the yearlings shape up as very , promising . Danny Arnstein, of Burma , Road fame in World War II., disposed of I all the French horses that he imported, but plans to acquire several others during the course of the summer for a fall I and winter campaign. Ramon Bueno just received a letter ,r addressed to him at Maisons-Lafitte, in n France, from Lucien Lyne, the Kentuckian n who has been a top trainer .and rider on the other side for some 30 years. Lyne was ts in bad health when the letter was written n last October. Bueno has about decided to 0 return to France, where he can get more !e horses than Titien II. to train. The letter ,r when remailed to Bueno here, bore but one e address — America — and it showed up at I* Belmont Park. You figure that one out. . . I Major Sabatini, of Montclair, N. J., cele-3 ,1 brated his tenth wedding anniversary yes-!• ._ terday. He brought Mrs. Sabatini to Aque-fc-1 ,_ duct and played all the "tens" available. . . :-1 Trainer C. Feltner reported that Lone I Eagle was bothered slightly by a cough but it is now back in training and will be seen n under colors about mid -July ..The cups that are to be awarded to the winning g jockeys and trainer as mementos of the e Dwyer and Brooklyn are on exhibition in n the jockeys room and the secretarys office, respectively . . . Trainer Dolly Byers has 5 selected Friday as the day on which he will U van William Goadby Loews The Pimpernel 1 it n g e in n 5 U 1 -~ to Delaware for his Dover Stakes engage-is ment . . Trainer Walter Kelley got back from Lexington, where he went to get a look-see at some of the yearlings to be offered during the annual vendue. The selections for tomorrow are: JACK FIZZ in the first, MANGOHICK in the fifth, and CIGAR MAID in the sixth.
