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__________. ™li™ JUDGES STANDI By Charles Hatton Happy Carrier Arlington Futurity Prospect TV Helps Spark Interest in Arlington Park Valor Fills Sire Attentions Book HBPAs Solidity Reflected at Chicago ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 19. It is perhaps ungenerous of us, but we may as well say at once that the Primer field impressed us as a remarkably unremarkable lot of two-year-olds. And we suppose that just for that __________. the the successful successful Happy Happy Carrier Carrier will will ultimately ultimately the the successful successful Happy Happy Carrier Carrier will will ultimately ultimately develop into a champion. If he does, it could not happen to a more deserving sportsman than is Louisvilles William Veeneman, who is his owner and breeder and, incidentally, is also Churchill Downs chairman of the board. So far this season the Veeneman stables luck has been a lady. For Happy Carrier and Dean Cavy are its only two-year-olds, and both are stakes winners. In fact, the Primer was Happy Carriers second stake, though his record is subtlely spotted with indifferent performances. He won the Lafayette Lafayette back back at at Keeneland. Keeneland. And And he he is is in in ™li™ Lafayette Lafayette back back at at Keeneland. Keeneland. And And he he is is in in the Arlington Futurity on July 12, a fixture that is expected this year to gross some 10,000. Happy Carrier is by Carrier Pigeon and is another of the grandsons of Equipoise to win important races this season. Those who have seen them tell us the East has two lively newcomers in Native Dancer and Tahitian King, and the former was intended for the local Futurity until Bill Winfrey shelved him. This observer has not seen enough of the current crop of two-year-olds to have formed any really immutable convictions about them, but we have a notion Mrs. Warren Wrights filly, Bubbley, is the smartest that has been developed thus far in the Midwest. She is a prospect for this weekends Pollyanna, but is not in the Futurity. However, Ben Jones trainees include a candidate called Bob Away, who has not started, but is said by morning workwatchers to be a likeable sort of colt. He is a Whirlaway, out of Two Leas dam. Two Bob. Calumet won the Futurity here last summer with HiH Gail, who was an Arlington development. Market breeders have a special interest in the outcome of the Arlington Futurity, for it is the first of the seasons rich events for two-year-olds, and the only Futurity which precedes the annual yearling sales at Keeneland and Saratoga. The winner, naturally, focuses attention on any of the progeny of his sire that are offered on these markets. Television now has taken a definite place in merchandising the thoroughbred sport and Arlingtons 15 stakes are to be telecast on Tom Duggans popular Chicago sports show at 10:30 p. m. There also is a possibility that some of these stakes will be telecast live," with the immediate Chicago area blacked out, or at any rate that the the races will be offered NBC and CBS. The FCC has stated no clearly defined stand concerning what is and is not permissible in connection with the broadcasting and televising of racing events, but the major networks handle important races as they do any other outstanding sports spectacle, which is of course entirely justifiable. For anyone to take any other position would be discriminatory* There is no question the "tax stamp" has changed things as regards racing and the air waves. As Arlingtons Jack Drees put it, "TV intrigues the public interest in the sport, and if they care to enjoy it to the fullest they will attend." Football has complained that live television has been detrimental at the turnstiles, but we do not think that baseball feels it is altogether responsible for the decline in patronage. And TV has been of inestimable value as a public relations medium for the turf sport, when it has been used intelligently. Arlington experimented briefly with live TV on its feature events back in 46, but there were comparatively few television sets about town at that time, too few to draw any very definite conclusions whether this policy was advisable. It will be interesting to note the results if it is offered this year. Several columns ago, it was noted that Spartan Valor has an older sister, called Bernadette S., who is a non-winner to our latest accounts. A bit of research discloses that he also has a half-sister by Rounders, called Greek Colleen, who is no better than she should be, to be charitable about it. And at the Helis barn this morning we were shown a two-year-old half-brother to the handicap leader, who is, as yet, unnamed. He is an outsize son of Valdina Orphan. So Arisbi has been quite a prolific producer, for she also has "The Jersey Lightnings" yearling sis-t ter at Almahurst and now is rearing another sister foaled this year. Howard Hausner, who broke Spartan Valor and is Cat-rones agent, incidentally, tells us, "Those stories he doesnt ship well are exaggerated I think, for he has had to van to every race he has started in this season." And, he added, "Half of his races were over off tracks." Maurice Barshack advises that young Bill Helis has repurchased Attention privately, and that the Eqi-poise stallion stood at a nominal 00 fee this season, had a crowded book of mares, some of them shipping from Florida, Maryland and Virginia. Turf ana: Pete Brandsness notes there is a long waiting list for Arlington season boxes. . . . Major Ednyfed Williams returned from Mexico City, reports an uptrend there. He presented the Vencino Good Neighbor Cup for the 52 renewal of this event. ... A call has been taken on Johnny Adams to ride Dance Nsing. . . . The HBP A points out that, from its own standpoint, the recent Chicago situation revealed a most gratifying solidity within the ranks of the horsemens organization. Until publisher J. Samuel Perlman, acting as mediator, effectuated an understanding between the HBP A and Arlington, not a horse was transferred from Hawthorne to this course. . . . Plain Ben Jones is quoted to the effect he did not wait on Real Delight to begin her turf career this season. On the contrary, she had an injury which necessitated the delay, and her regular exercise boy wanted to trade her off to a contemporary for another mount, who looked like starting and winning. . . . Knolfwoods two-year-old filly, Lailas Comet comes of Spartan Valors family. . . . Hannibal may appear in later Arlington stakes. Speed is his forte.
