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CONNORS CORNER By Chuck Connors . i BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 4. — Andys Glory is a seven-year-old with a bad set of underpinnings, a habit of bearing out, inherited from his daddy, and a lot of winning ways. The veteran accounted for five races out of .his seven starts since the inception of the New York season, which is a percentage that will stand up under the severest analysis. Andys Glory was claimed by his present owner, F. M. Harvey, during the Hialeah meeting for ,000 and has accounted for a shade less than twice that amount in purses. The veteran is a son of Andy K., himself a stake winner from the mare Charnot, by Master Charlie. The latter accounted for the Hopeful among his stake scores. Andys Glory was purchased as a yearling by Irving Gushen, who confines his racing to the New England sector. The colt was a standout in that area during his juvenile year and later as a three-year-old was one of the best to face the starter over that same circuit. During the mid-summer of his three-year-old career, owner Gushen made arrangements to ship Andys Glory to Aqueduct to start in the Dwyer, which would have been his most important engagement. Misfortune moved in and during the colts final trial for the big test he went amiss and was retired. When brought back to the racing wars he was dropped down to the claiming ranks. Last winter Harvey, a graduate of the exercise ranks and one of the more promising of the younger generation of trainers, snared the "cripple" for the above mentioned price. So far he has done right well with the old fellow as the records attest. AAA Horsemen, as a rule, are prejudiced against claiming cripples for the fear that they may break down and prove a total loss, but there are many exceptions to that argument in the book and Andys Glory is a leading one. In speaking of claims, the paddock gang cite Real Brother, the son of Half Brother and Paragreat. This fellow has winning ways and with each success has moved up the ladder into stiffer contention. He was haltered for ,000 and a few days later was raced with a claiming tag of ,000 on his bridle. Yesterday, he ran for 5,000. WhatU his next price be, and what about an allowance race? Real Brother to date looks like the best claim of the season but time will answer that. Ben Whitaker would like to have him and n« doubt Eugene Constantin would be temoted to get him back. The success of VA1;E WJ.fi it. O i ilic t.i hi * Andys Glory Keeps on Winning i Turfmen Seldom Claim Cripples Guerin Has Mount for Belmont Battlefield Eyes Massachusetts this fellow will help the Texas breeding industry, for Half Brother is standing in the Lone Star State. AAA .Thomas J. Foley, a turf commentator from Brisbane, Australia, was a Belmont Park visitor yesterday. The man from Down Under was impressed by the Belmont panorama and the tjspe of racing. . .William A. j Reade, from London and formerly of the Laurel Park Stud, was on hand yesterday and witnessed the running of the days program as a guest of Frenk J. Kearns.. . . Fred Lansberg decided to take the day off. The big reason, his daughter Mary JaneJ graduates this afternoon. . .Jockey Eric Gueriri will resume riding on Saturday. He was grounded 10 days for failing to keep a straight course on the filly Miss Comeback in a race down the Widener Course. He will have a mount in the Belmont on King Jolie, owned by Isidor Bieber. . .Trainer Ivan Parke reported that he had shipped Royal Dream, owned by Fred W. Hooper to Charles Hagyards Kentucky farm to be turned out. At the same time he reported the return from Suffolk Downs of the stake winning two-year-old Nettie Sue . . . O. C. Rasch, Jr., is a recent arrival with a draft of horses owned by M. M. Hettinger. . . Trainer Bob Odom has about decided against shipping Crafty Admiral, owned by the Charfran Stable, to Suffolk Downs, for the Massachusetts Handicap. . .Stephen ".Laddie" Sanford ran away from the polo field to witness the running of the steeplechase event and confer with trainer Holly Hughes. AAA Trainer Jim Fitsimmons is seeking to secure the services of Jimmy Stout to ride Flirtatious, owned by Ogden Phipps, in her Delaware Park week-end engagement... Trainer Jack Skirvin reported that he will ship the horses owned by J. M. Roebling, the Trenton, N. J., patron, to Monmouth Park for that meeting. He will keep Jub-ling, owned by Charles H. Wacker in. of Chicago, here for her engagement in the Gazelle at Aqueduct Eugene Constantin, who has a pretentious menage in charge of trainer Clyde Troutt, came on from his Dallax, Tex., home for a few days racing and a look-see at the Belmont. . .Lawrence Lewis, the Richmond, Va., patron was a recent arrival and will remain over for some time...W. T. Bishop, general manager of Keeneland, relayed word from the It l XV* J* 9 J.*- f* *i *Jll X j ►Kentucky center that his principal interest j i : in his visit east is to acquaint New York horsemen with the new stake offering on the agenda, the Alcibiades. This is for fillies two years old and carries an added value of 5,000: Nominations are due to close on June 16. . .Joe Donohue, New Yorks ambassador to English, Irish and French racing, flew back from London after witnessing the Epsom Derby. He also witnessed a days sport at The Curragh and a Sunday program at Longchamp. This was the. eighth- English event he witnessed and the boys in the clubhouse have decided that next year he will be rigged out in gray topper, gray pants arid tails. . .Jack Amiel deserted the Times Square scene during the afternoon fora look-see at the more enticing picture at Belmont than scanning a dozen or so menus catering to the hungry. AAA Trainer Bert Mulholland will confer with George D. Widener today relative to shipping Battlefield to Suffolk Downs for his engagement in the Massachusetts Handicap. Should the Widener colorbearer make the trip, he will be accompanied by a couple of stablemates that could fit into engagements on the same afternoon. . .Jack Campbell is working on the Aqueduct overnight book and will have it ready for the printers by the week-end. The Rockaway j Boulevard course will present a 27-day session.. .Add fashion notes: The veteran racing secretary and handicapper greeted the arrival of summer by sporting a brand new straw skimmer, boater type. . .C. L.; i Guerling, the veteran owner and trainer, showed up from New Jersey and announced his retirement from the training ranks. He turned his charges over to Freeman McMillan, who galloped Citation for the Calumet Farm. Guerling will shortly take off for the Columbia River country out in the Northwest and try and catch a few unsuspecting salmon with the aid of a hook and line. . .Trainer Ivan Parke, satisfied with the effort turned in by Fred W. Hoopers Olympic in his trial this morning, will start the English importation in the Belmont . . Frank Coltiletti, the bid-time jockey but now traffic director in charge of runaways at Jamaica, renders a few arias from the operas during his morning tour of duty. The boys, to get rid of him, bring out the coffee pot, which to date has proved successful.
