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Weighing In By EVAN SHIPMAN BELMONT PARK Elmont L T N Y May 5 Thanks to televison we stayat homes can pretend to opinions concerning the Derby almost as strong as those of the boys who made the trip to Louisville After the last race at Bel mont on Saturday a lot of us congregated in the jocks quarters and saw Hill Gails ex ¬ traordinary burst of speed on the back stretch the brush that took him clear of Hannibal and which decided the race then and there The re ¬ sult did not seem to surprise the little men clustered around the screen They greeted Hill Gails move with cries of There goes Eddie and Here it is just as if they had been waiting for some such resolution of the crisis In the stretch when Sub Fleet made his gallant bid they were un ¬ perturbed perturbedHill Hill Gail to their eyes and to ours was safe and if Arcaro chose to cut the margin a little fine why that was his business Prom our limited view of proceedings that 77th renewal of the Run for the Roses looked easy for Calumets big son of Bull Lea Jane Gail and we are sure the New York riders shared our opinion Our own satisfaction with the result was not less ¬ ened you may be sure by the fact that we had been predicting a Churchill Downs victory for Hill Gail and the Jones combi ¬ nation ever since we had seen him capture the Santa Anita Derby in such style last February At that time and during the interval we were convinced that all Hill Gail needed on the big day was a strong assured confident ride He got it all right Enthusiastic as we were about Hill Gails race and clearly as we saw his performance on the little screen allow us to offer you certain inescapable reser ¬ vations concerning both the winner and television To begin with we never had a complete picture of the race we never had a clear idea of what actually was taking place to the rear of Hill Gail and you will grant that that was important According to unprejudiced eyewitness reports Hill Gail was a weary colt through that last furlong covered in lZYs or at the rate of a quarter in 26 and it was high time that the wire was there Arcaros decision to em ¬ ploy the colts foot when he did settled the issue In retrospect that much is plain But what of the various challenges that the brilliant jockeys foxy move forestalled Television left us unaware of what was happening to Sub Fleet and Blue Man until the former entered the picture far back but steadily gaining with little more than a quarter mile to go As for Blue Man who we understand from those who were on the spot had a very rough trip he escaped the notice of all those who saw the race on television and was not even recognized by the an ¬ nouncer who confused him with Mont peliers Pintor never in the hunt huntSumming Summing up the impressions of the re ¬ turned travelers to Louisville as opposed to the view of us who are aware of the hap ¬ penings only by proxy we learn that this was an inconclusive race and that both Sub Fleet and Blue Man must be accorded high respect for then future classic en ¬ gagements One keen judge told us that Blue Man ran a sixteenth of a mile far ¬ ther on Saturday than the winner nor is he prone to exaggeration He added that Sub Fleet finished very strong and is cer ¬ tain to be a major factor in the Belmont Stakes All this is interesting particularly since it is strong evidence that the Triple Crown is far from being in the bag It suggests that Hill Gail like many another good colt is possessed of one great run but that he can be caught if that run is mis ¬ placed by a true stayer at an exacting dis ¬ tance such as that of the Belmont We are not mind you advancing this as our own opinion not yet It is a possibility and is well worth considering consideringHere Here at home the Acorn was a disap ¬ pointment Since with Maine Chances Rose Jet on the sidelines this is an open division a large field went to the post for Americas equivalent of the One Thou ¬ sand Guineas and the French Poule dEssai des Pouliches and Parading Lady the winner undoubtedly was best none of her rivals having the shadow of an excuse Still and all we hardly think that Joe W Browns daughter of Bern borough can boast great class and we suspect that if Calumets Real Delight handy winner of the Kentucky Oaks last week starts in the Coaching Club Amer ¬ ican Oaks Parading Lady will not head the parade Our notes concerning those defeated by Parading Lady say that King Ranchs Sufie had every chance but could not match strides with the winner in the drive that Foxcatchers Faberose flattened out badly that Dinewisely can canContinued Continued on Page ThirtyThree WEIGHING IN INBy By EVAN SHIPMAN Continued from Page Four Fourcertainly certainly go to a distance but lacks any particular point of speed that Landmark has all her foot but little courage to go with it This is not a lot of which we can be very proud of but then we have to take the bad years with the good
