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"~~~~~r~~ i ™"™ JUDGES STANDI By Charles Hatton ■ Lincoln Crowds, Play Exceed Expectations History May Be Repeated in Cleopatra Fillies on Both Coasts in Rich Matron Spartan Valors Sister Chronic Also Ran HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., June 13. One of the most successful meets in the checkered history of the homeless Lincoln Fields club will be brought to a close this week-end, with the twenty-fifth running of the Lincoln Handicap as the days piece de resistance. "~~~~~r~~ i The The Lincojn Lincoln is jg over over the the popular popular mile mile and and a a The The Lincojn Lincoln is jg over over the the popular popular mile mile and and a a quarter route and is enriched with 0,000. The field includes an invader from Detroit in Pur Sang, a recent winner over the fabulous Sickles Image, and Hasty House Farm is practically "running the barn," as the saying goes, with three entrants in Inseparable, Seaward and Ruhe. This will be the third time around for Inseparable, who showed in the two latest runnings of the stake, and incidentally won here earlier in the week. Volcanic is rather a conspicuous absentee, perhaps perhaps because because the the surface surface still still was was slow slow ™"™ perhaps perhaps because because the the surface surface still still was was slow slow today. Pete ODonnell is delighted with the public response to this meeting, and notes that play is -up 37 per cent, attendance 33 per cent, going into the final days program. This in spite of some inauspicious lake weather. "Of course, we all anticipated some increase, but nothing like this rise in both the crowds and play," ODonnell said today. "I am agreeably surprised." Entries for the Saturday overnighters came a bit slowly, owing to the general exodus of horses from Hawthorne to Arlington Park, where the stage is set for Mondays initial program. Interesting arrivals from out of town are Eddie Mr. Jockey Arcaro, Jack Hodgins with Sub Fleet, and "Slim" Pierce with Woodchuck . and Chicle n, the latter a rival for Volcanicsturf course title. Woodchuck may be pointed for the Equipoise Mile. The Cleopatra, which distinguishes Arlingtons opening day card, could attract the strongest field of three-year- I old fillies assembled thus far this season, with Real Delight, Whirla Lea, Crownlet, Bella Figura, Free For Me, Toomai and Ever Bright among the candidates. It has often been observed that history has a repetitious quality, and in a sense Cleopatra history will be repeated if Real Delight accepts and is the winner, for her dam, Blue Delight, won the introductory running in 1942. In fact, this six furlongs never has been won by a filly of inferior class. Miss Keeneland, Busher, Athenia, Bewitch, Two Lea, Heres Hoping and Sickles Image are among its past win- I ners. It is difficult to work up a convincing lather of en- i thusiasm for the possibility any of her rivals will beat the i Calumet filly, but she is unlikely to walk over in local filly stakes. Toomai has been beaten only once, and Bella i Figura is improving, indeed just missed running down Oh ] Leo here at Hawthorne a few days ago. These both are beautifully bred fillies. Toomai is by Mahmoud, from i Glass Slipper, and as we recall this is the family of Masked Dancer, foundation dam at Robert Mcllvains ] stud. Bella Figura is by Count Fleet, out of Miss Dogwood, and is a product of perfectionist Brownell Combs* I small but select stud. Classy as the Cleopatra probables 1 are, Arlingtons filly stakes are likely to become increasingly hard to win as the season advances. The Matron, which has 5,000 added, and is expected to gross 5,000, may lure Princess Lygia, Cinda, Miss Nosoca, Sufie, J Landmark and others from the East and West Coasts. 1 i It is odd that if a thing is stated often enough, it becomes j accepted as a fact. A statement that has appeared here and elsewhere bothers the Baltimore Suns Snowden Carter, who sets £ us straight about it. He writes, "There is an error which I have seen so frequently repeated in newspapers recently that I feel it worth calling to your attention. Spartan Valor is not a first t foal. He has an older full sister who came to the races as a two- • year-old in 1948 and ran six times and was no closer than fourth and that on only one occasion. The filly, Bernadette S., ran twice as a three-year-old in 1949 and, as far as I know, did not | run in subsequent years. In what f believe was her final start, she finished twelfth and last to maidens at Long Branch on August 18, 1949. She was owned then by the Shamrock Stable. It seems strange that this mare, by Attention and out of Arisbi, £ has so completely escaped public notice. This spring, Frank Cat- t rone told me that he thought Spartan Valor was Arisbis first 3 foal, and when I mentioned Bernadette S., he had no recollection of her. No kidding, he said, T wonder where she is now? I join him in wondering. If shes not a broodmare, she ought to be." , Turf ana: Arlington last summer filled 56 per cent of the races in the book, and 37 of the races carded at Arling- , ton-Washington in 51 had six or fewer entrants. . . . The ] Knights two-year-old filly, Coralies Girl, is a half-sister to the good handicapper, Arise. . . . Dance Nsing is a prospect for the Warren Wright Memorial. . . . Palatines accomplished sprinter, Woodchuck. is due at the North Side course as you read this. . . . Fred Hoopers imported Olympic is pointing for local stakes. He is an experienced grass horse. . . . Harold Vosburgh is reputed to have prophesied One Count would win the Belmont when he saw the colt as a foal in the Blue Grass. . . . Larry Bogen-schutz and Bob Carey will confer on Hawthornes autumn program before the former departs for Cincinnati. . . . Price Sallee is expected with the Piatt and Clay perform- | ers at the end of Delaware Park Ben Lindheimer some ] weeks ago noted the Arlington stall certificates, stating the purse distribution was binding on the horsemen but not the club, had the lawyers rewrite it to include the ] association in the contract. . . . Jack Goemans has named ] two Irish fillies, Royal Rainbow and Royal Spear II., for j the rich Matron. . . . High Breeze is the sire of one of Chicagos swifter allowance fillies in Princess Ann. ... j Spencer Drayton was a recent visitor. . . . The pursuit of better purses for bad horses is both illusory and elusive. j . . . The Lincoln increase attracted horses those from the minor tracks could not beat. . . . Chicagoans are rooting for Babe Wells speedy recovery. . . . Hawthorne boasts one of the longer home stretches on mile courses. It is l almost exactly a quarter mile, which makes for truer form. |
