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JUDGES STAND 1 By Charles Hatton 1 1Preakness Preakness Arrivals Stir Greater Interest Whirla Lea May Prove Cinderella Filly Something NeW in Stall Gates Out West Hollywood Park to Emphasize Juvenile Races RacesPIMLICO PIMLICO Baltimore Md May 7 7Things Things were going along swimmingly here on the old hilltop today with the Preakness hopes Blue Man and Arroz arriving amid clicking camera shutters and exclamations of admiration Real Delight detraining for Saturdays BlackEyed Susan and Ben Jones reassur ¬ ing Pimlico officials that Hill Gail has not taken a lame step since the Derby The fill ¬ ing in his leg has completely disappeared and we plan to come along early Preakness week Meanwhile the SRO sign went up so far as concerns reserved seats for the Preakness and General Reckford said in the quiet of the secluded presidents office that he is gratified by public response to this much of the meeting A total attend ¬ ance of 56961 wagered 4171525 during the first five days which compares favorably with the 53858 who sent 3553512 through the tote during the same period in 51 The increases are less sharp than those at many other points but we do not imagine anybody familiar with the dates and locations of the Maryland New Jersey and Delaware tracks expected they would be so pronounced Pimlico does have a nucleus of Baltimore patronage that has seen it through generations of wars economic crisis etc and if the trend here inclines slowly we expect that it also would decline less readily than in some other areas Baltimoreans have shown that they want racing And we hope that there will always be a Pimlico just as there will always be a Saratoga SaratogaPimlico Pimlico officials were really delighted that Heal De ¬ light won the Kentucky Oaks the other day for Mrs Wrights big Plain Jane filly was one of a very few of that field who are eligible also for Saturdays BlueEyed Susan here A punctual odds on choice hi the Downs mile and a sixteenth she looms the favorite also for this weekends mile and an eighth Jack Campbell inci ¬ dentally said as the Oaks field was being saddled in the Downs paddock that he has a notion Parading Lady may be best of the New York f illies Though Real Delight won the first of the seasons Oaks races she did not spread eagle her field as many anticipated On the contrary the Calumetbred Whirla Lea was gamely coming again and had her former stablemate doing her best Whirla Lea is not in the BlackEyed Susan but trainer Tiny Keezek is pointing her for the rich filly stakes at Arlington and andWashington Washington A strapping blazefaced chestnut she has a fashion plated pedigree by Whirlaway out of the Bull Lea mare OretheLea and impresses us as a very genuine filly If she continues to progress sports scribes will in ¬ evitably refer to her as a Cinderella horse Weeded out by Calumet in a private transaction as a yearling Whirla 4 Leas purchaser soon decided he also would prefer to sell and repent So she was resold privately to C W Winters proprietor of a Milan Indiana general store and owner of a threehorse racing string Whirla Lea developed hi Florida to the extent Keezek started her against colts in the Florida Derby The veteran horseman is frank to say I made a mistake there sending her to the front for she got involved in a pace duel I did not foresee She can be rated as she was in the Oaks Of course Whirlaway al ¬ ways contrary is proving a good sire now that he has been expatriated expatriatedHollywood Hollywood Park will introduce some new and scientific wrinkles in starting gates at the meet opening May 13 we learn from Al Wesson For example the stall doors are of airplane plexiglass technicolor slow motion pictures will be made of each start in addition to the more readily developed black and white film and the gate has adjustable back bars and threefoot ex ¬ tensions on the front of the stalls to assure horses break straight Most important alteration in Hollywoods physical property for this meet is the elimination of the threefurlong chute to pro ¬ vide more parking space and increase the capacity to 25000 cars The 100000 net Gold Cup on July 12 is richest of the stakes which now total 23 Additionally the club plans a 10000 event daily except stakes days a good many of them for twoyear olds Californians last season spent an estimated 1000000 for yearlings and Hollywood Park plans five stakes features for this age division Probable Big Name Horse of the meeting is In ¬ tent a candidate for the Gold Cup CupTurf Turf ana J B Campbell long considered a foremost connoisseur of horseflesh estimates that Spartan Valor is the best horse in training today Jimmy Donn hopes Florida will attract a larger share of box office attractions next winter We had them once he observed Naturally those late April dates that Gulfstream ostensibly enjoys are not conducive to such big purses but its not entirely improbable that Gulfstream might decide to do some ¬ thing drastic one of these days Film Patrol cameras shooting headon shots of Hollywood Park races will have fine wires placed over the lenses to more clearly illustrate which horses are veering from a straight path Only the hurdle horses will be stabled outside the grounds at Monmouth this season L B Mayers colors will be re introduced at Hollywood Park where Ernie Shaw will train a strung including Thataway Princess Lygia and the two yearold Busher filly Popularity Hazel Park now can accommodate 900 horses on the grounds Further use of the Fair Grounds facilities is unnecessary Marse Tom Piatt has a most useful threeyearold filly in his homegrown Stagestruck who is by Amphitheatre out of Lady Kentucky who amazed everybody by setting most of the pace in the Kentucky Oaks Steve Brooks is pacing rival riders at Churchill Downs Conn McCreary is quoted as wondering if his friend Eddie Arcaro will con ¬ tinue active in 53 Mrs Gordon Guibersons Arroz is among the supplemental Preakness candidates Larry MacPhail outlined plans for streamlining Bowie at a press dinner last evening and said that he is forming a Mary ¬ land turf club of Free State and Washington D C sportsmen
