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JUDGES STAND 1 By Charles Hatton 1 1Sub Sub Fleet Looms Favorite for Preakness Larry MacPhail Outlines Plans for Bowie Old Pimlico Has Possibilities for Future South Dakota in Training for Comeback ComebackPIMLICO PIMLICO Baltimore Md May 10 10Things Things are happening fast on the Preakness front Even the train that brought Sub Fleet here broke down But if anything untoward befalls Charley Fishers colt who inherited the some ¬ what anxious status of being the one to beat with Hill Gails withdrawal it will be in spite of Jack Hodgins and a 24hour guard This incidentally is Hodgins first ap ¬ pearance on the Hilltop since 1921 but when he came back he came arunning as they say on shedrow Hill Gails inability to fill his Preakness engagement and bid for the Triple Crown naturally is disappoint ¬ ing to his admirers and puts an entirely new light on the Baltimore classic Since Sub Fleet was about eight lengths better than the remainder of the Derby field in finishing second to him most everyone here agrees wicn tlmlicos Jack Needles that he is the logical preference As a matter of fact there was a minority opinion before Hill Gails deflection that Sub Fleet would improve off the Louisville race and turn the tables here In any case it is nice that the master of Dixiana has bred and developed a foremost candidate for one of the classic Triple Crown events He has for years main tamed a large stud and stable and is overdue so to speak As we recall the Detroiter began in 26 when he and Walter Briggs formed the Bloomfield Stable with a string of two horses neither of them starters In 27 they had a third partner in Frank Navin and raced the useful sprinter Blackwood Soon thereafter Fisher established Dixiana as presentday turfgoers know it devoting less of its acres to saddle horses and more to thoroughbreds There was good if insufficient evidence in 51 that Sub Fleet had potentialities when he concluded a light campaign of six starts by winning the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes At the time it seemed difficult to know where exactly he should be rated Now he is it in the race for threeyearold honors honorsLarry Larry MacPhail now has described Bowies remodeling program in detail and it sounds like a very flossy and comfortable place to go racing What intrigued us was that the race track will be widened to accommodate 16horse fields for this contains a suggestion the dyna ¬ mic master of Glenangus may have in mind something rather special in the way of rich races Questioned by one of the newsmen present if it is true he plans a 100000 event MacPhail smiled and said Well I am listening The point is that if Bowie is going to build for the future the time to do the work on the raping strip is Tight now Except for the richest events tracks in the present day split stakes when they draw unwieldy fields so it seems possible Larruping Larry does plan bidding for the Biggest Names Someone has observed Bowie dates are either too early or too late to attract championship performers but Santa Anita has proved the horses will be ready if the horsemen are sufficiently interested It is significant also that MacPhail is greatly increasing the parking facilities and has plans for an ¬ other section of stand when this construction is possible under Federal building regulations And we should think it will please turfgoers in Maryland and Washington that the park is to be made more easily accessible through the improvements planned in the highways In sum Mac ¬ Phail declares Now that I am in this thing I intend to see if Bowie cant go places Not only is he going to make a lady out of Bowie so to speak he plans to change her name perhaps to Prince Georges Park ParkThis This tourist finds there are two schools of thought about Pimlico One laments racing on the Old Hilltop is dying on the vine and makes comparisons of the tote business with that at Garden State Bowie and Laurel The other is reminded that Pimlico now is drawing almost exclusively on Baltimore owing to the dates schedule and a change in dates would in ¬ volve abandoning The Preakness This is something Maryland ers in general and Baltimoreans in particular do not care even to think about Several columns ago it was stated Baltimore wants racing This observation is not based entirely upon Pim ¬ lico patronage For any suggestion of abandoning the venerable Maryland Jockey Club course has repercussions Pimlico is still the traditional keystone of Maryland racing to the old guards to whom its preservation seems as important as the continuity of Saratoga racing does nationally and for the same somewhat sen ¬ timental reasons For the sake of realism we prefer to regard Pimlico from a business point of view and it seems to us the Old Hilltop is very sound It is not a big game but it has a hard core of racing interest developed through generations This interest is less superficial and will evaporate less readily than the inflationary interest in some other areas We believe Pimlico has a future as well as a past under the aegis of the new directorate directorateTurf Turf ana Racing men everywhere mourn Johnny Daniels one of the nicest guys anybody ever met in any walk of life During the War Marshall Cassidy insisted New York officials study first aid Fortunately for jockey Jack Skelley starter Eddie Blind was a pupil Recently at Laurel the horse Bimini tipped over on Skelley in the gate breaking his leg Blind rushed to where he lay on the track straightened out the kink in the way first aid advised When Skelley reached the hospital the doctor looked surprised asked Who set your leg It is a perfect job Jet A Dandy bucked in the Swift Larry Mac ¬ Phail tells us the directorate of Bowies new Maryland Turf Club will help operate the track That is for sure He will appoint them himself Cranwood last weekend honored Al Smithas South Dakota The Ohio Hindoo with a race named for him South Dakota is at Beulah training for a comeback He has won 34 of 111 starts and 72925 setting a worlds mile and 70 yard mark of 140 Nice going for a 50 yearling Bud Burmester tried way last November to acquire Gushing Oil for Mexican interests Ronnie Nash is riding an high pc of winners in Maryland this spring Charles Town stall application blanks contain a clause whereby those granted accommo ¬ dations agree to abide by the track policies These are notarized Mai contents have the alternative of shipping elsewhere Pimlico stewards are not sparing the rod in instances of foul riding The minimum is 10 days Your Host negotiations appear to have come momentarily at least to an impasse Pimlico is among the few modern tracks having a bugler Best guess as to when Hill Gail may resume training is 90 days
