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i,... i " CONNORS CORNER by cw -con,™ AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 17.— Ac- t cording to the calendar, summer is due on Saturday, but if you ou value value your your peace peace of of you ou value value your your peace peace of of mind dont tell that to the boys on the back-stretch. The warm weather, to a certain i extent, brings on added [ physical danger to animals, • due to drafts, , overheating and, in t some instances, overeating. - Stables in the New York area are I built for year round service and the protection . from winter snows, , spring and fall winds and rains detracts 1 from summer comfort. Trainers in many instances voiced objection to the excessive heat that prevails in the paddock. This all means added work for the stable caretakers, in cooling out horses following trials or racing engagements. So far the fly nuisance has not reached midsummer proportions. The pest to a certain extent has been eliminated by liberal dosages of insecticides and the prompt removal of manure from the open pits. Flies are a pronounced carrier of disease, in addition to being an annoyance to horses cooped up in their stalls. The vanning of horses from Belmont Park and Jamaica to this track presents another hazard to trainers shipping over for engagements. Many candidates for engagements ship better in cool weather. The run through crowded streets under summer noon day sun conditions is not conducive to an even temperament in horses following their arrival at the receiving barn. Many break out into a heavy sweat, dripping water somewhat akin to a short haired dog emerging from a swim. This condition does not assure peak racing performance on the part of the sufferer. Well, maybe in the future, the temperature will be governed by a universal thermostat and until that millenium arrives the stable guineas will do some tall and un-censored cussing at the weather and everything in particular. AAA The Edgemere is down for decision on Saturday and in the weight assignments was a new name to Metropolitanites. This new arrival, Crocodile, is an English importation that Frank Kearns has for the Detroiter Harvey Fruehauf. The invader from across the ocean is assigned 126, equal with County Delight. He will not face the starter, but his racing record across the pond is creditable. Crocodile won three races as a three-year-old and. was t i [ • , t - I . , 1 Trainers Object to Paddock Heat Vanning of Horses Another Hazard 1 Walk Primate Around His Stable Native Dancer Is Back Galloping well up in the listing of the Free Handicap, eighth on the-list. The Edgemere carries i an endowment of 5,000 and will likely draw a field of 10. AAA Joe Eitinger, master of Marlboro Stud, is I a frequent commuter between New York and Delaware Park. Today was one of his I traveling days. He plans to be here tomorrow. . .Trainer Jimmy Hastie reported that , Primate, who went amiss, a broken sesamoid, in the Jersey Stakes, was walked around the stable a short while yesterday. When the colt is capable of traveling he will be shipped to A. B. Hancocks Paris, Ky., farm to be turned out for the remainder of the year. . Harry Getner, who i underwent a physical at Mt. Sinai in the past few days, was pronounced okay. However, he was told to return in September for further examination. The news was pleasing for that means he can attend Saratoga and then later in the fall return to his Miami, Fla., home. . .Trainer Syl Veitch reported that Counterpoint, owned by C. V. Whitney, is coming along nicely and will be ready for competition at Saratoga Springs . . . E. B. Benjamin, who races under the nom de course of the Starmount Stable, is on hand. The New Orleans patron will do some cruising in nearby waters aboard his yacht and then sail up the Hudson to anchor near Schuylerville for the Saratoga Springs season . . . Earl "Greasy" Neale, the old footballer, was on hand yesterday nursing a couple of broken ribs. The fractures were the result of an auto accident over the week-end. M. B. Shanburg, from out Kansas City, Mo., way, showed up to keep cases on his fellow townsman Herbert Woolf for the remainder of the meeting. . .Trainer Dolly Byers reported that Tea-Maker owned by F. Ambrose Clark, is back at his Belmont Park Stable following an engagement at Monmouth Park ... Trainer Bill Winfrey reported that A. G. Vanderbilts top mare, Next Move, had been shipped to her owners Sagamore Farm to be turned out for a well earned rest. He also reported that the firing irons had been applied to an osselet that popped on the two-year-old Native Dancer. The colt is back galloping and will be ready for the upstate meeting. His Ar 1 i I I , lington and Washington Park plans in quest of the rich stakes at that track are for the moment undecided . . . Trainer H. O. Simmons announced that he had severed relations with the M. F. Drinkhouse Stable and will confine his attention to the horses owned by P. L. Grissom, the Detroiter. Simmons plans to ship Dixie Flyer to Monmouth Park for a welek-end engagement at that track. AAA CM. Feltner shipped 15 horses owned by Louis Lazare and others to Monmouth Park for racing at that point. Sheilas Reward headed the list and this fellow is a stake candidate for next week. In the shipment was Three Rings, owned by Mrs. E. L. Hop- kins. . .Trainer Sol Rutchick shipped the Kentucky Derby winner of last year, Count Turf, to a Long Island farm to be turned out for the summer months ... Trainer Walter Kelly vanned a draft of horses to Monmouth to race there. . .Trainer Harris Brown reported that some time next week he will ship a draft of horses to New Jersey. . .Trainer Hirsch Jacobs, before departing for Suffolk Downs, supervised the loading of Bob OBoy and Puffaway Sister to the farm to be turned out. . Trainer Ike Perlstein reported the arrival from Lexington, Ky., of the sprinter Fan Out. The stake performers Discreet and Alls Fair were returned from Delaware Park. AAA The veteran James Fitzsimmons predicted earlier in the year that he had some promising juveniles in his care. Looks like the sage of Sheepshead Bay somewhat underestimated his opinion, judging. by recent showings P. L. Grissom reported that he was in the market for racing material and so instructed trainer Simmons . . . Frank Cundal took over the training of the M. F. Drinkhouse horses yesterday. He formerly trained for the New Yorker. . . Centennial race course, out in the mile high city of Denver, will use the film patrol for this years meeting. . .The returnees from Monmouth Park headed by Dave Gorman reported that there are some holes in the racing strip. Track officials, according to the jockeys and trainers, blame the present condition on the wet weather but predict that the situation will be remedied by the track crew . . . The boys and girls of the clubhouse section joined some of the denizens of the press box in the belief that bird conservation 4s a wonderful idea. However, the proper place for a bird sanctuary is out in the Open and not under the roof of the grandstand at meeting time, with dry cleaning prices such as they are.
