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_ ™-™*; JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Bubbley Sparkles in Pollyanna Renewal East Well Represented in Rich Classic New Distance Gives More Owners Chance Madala Superintends Police Personnel ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 23. Racing men here still were enthusing about the showy performance Mrs. Warren Wrights Bubbley gave in accounting for the Pollyanna. This obscurely agrees completely with A. B. Han-, _ cock, cock, Jr. Jr. She She was was in in a a position position that that would would cock, cock, Jr. Jr. She She was was in in a a position position that that would would have defeated an ordinary filly, or even the average stakes filly, at the end of the back-stretch. But Arcaro somehow maneuvered her to the rail, fortunately found an opening coming to the three-sixteenths pole, and Real Delights big "little sister" charged through like a champion. She, incidentally, appeared to brush Blue Jeans, who also is a Bull Lea and is large as a three-year-old, in passing. The race was especially gratifying to plain Ben Jones, who hadnt the vaguest notion when he saddled Bubbley whether or or not not she she could could handle handle the the mud. mud. Many Many Bull Bull ™-™*; or or not not she she could could handle handle the the mud. mud. Many Many Bull Bull Leas cannot, you know. Chicagoans will see more of Bubbley this summer, if she continues to do well, for she is in the Lassie and the Princess Pat. For all her scope and substance Mrs. Wrights filly is a very feminine sort, with the best drawing-room manners. The Wright Memorial also developed quite a spirited horse race and resulted, rather surprisingly, in a stakes success for Irving Florsheims Red Charger, a colt by Haltal, purchased for ,000 from Royce Martin as a yearling. Hannibal tried to spot him eight pounds and could not quite bring it off, in going that seemed to improve the Chicagoan. There was an objection cmd the film showed that Red Charger savaged the Delawarian about three-sixteenths from home, but the stewards ratified the order of finish, as Hannibal did not appear to have been thrown off stride. Discussing the incident at dinner, Bayard Sharp was very sporting about it, recalling, "I have had entries come to the last fence running one, two and both of them fall." Hannibal ran in 1:09 flat recently at Delaware Park, though young Pass-more never even clucked to him, and it seems perfectly safe to say he is one of 1952s foremost sprinters, possibly the best of those in his own age division. Sharp bought him from Harrie Scott for 5,000 at the Keeneland yearling auctions, and he last season won the Wakefield and Albany, this year accounting for the Experimental No. 1. Though he is first of all a devotee of steeplechasing, and won a Grand National with Speculate, Sharp may add to his flat string at the sales this summer. The Classic of 00,000 added here on July 19 promises to attract a field noteworthy both for its quality and quantity, though none of the three winners of the "Triple Crown" events will be a starter. However, its reduction * from a mile and a quarter to a flat mile may influence its significance, it does afford many more owners a golden opportunity, as Benjamin Franklin Lindheimer has pointed out. Best known of the candidates are the Easts Tom Fool, Master Fiddle, Pintor and Armageddon, and the Wests Gushing Oil, Sub Fleet, Happy Go Lucky, Oh Leo, Mark-Ye-Well, Smoke Screen, Cajun and the filly, Whirla Lea. Incidentally, all of those also are in the American Derby, which this season was shortened from a mile and a quarter to a mile and a furlong. By a coincidence, the Greentree Stable, which brought off a double in the Classic and Derby with Hall of Fame last summer, will provide the "Biggest Name Horse" this season in Tom Fool, last years two-year-old champion. We know some discriminating observers who opine that Tom Fool is nothing more than a good miler, and, of course, if he were to win the Classic they would be of the same opinion still. But horses sometimes stay farther than their breeding or conformation might suggest, and there really is not much else upon which to base a conclusion Tom Fool is a non-stayer. In the past several years Spartan Valor, Bryan G., Sheilas Reward, Arise and Delegate have been pronounced sprinters, but have gone middle distances. We should hesitate to concur in the theory Tom Fool will not stay until there is more evidence of it. While the critics are concerned with this academic question, trainer John Gaver just hopes he goes the fastest mile here on Arlington Heights July 19. Johnny Madala is superintendent of police personnel and security at Arlington-Washington this season, and this circum-5-f.ance is more than a little discouraging to the element known in turf circles as "undesirables." In addition to a photographic mind, the 42-year-old Chicagoan has a rogues gallery which carries intimate details and pictures of 3,000 known bookies, more than 500 pickpockets and an index of 12,000 touts. He says he finds "Arlington Park is the cleanest track we have ever worked. The sharpies know we are here I suppose and they steer clear." Chicago racing once presented a big field for investigative and preventive work. Madala, who is of Bohemian ances-trp, brings a long experience to his post, first with the FBI and then with the TRPB. Behind his present status as a race track protective ace are such noted cases as the capture-killing of John Dillinger, the Bremner-Hamm kidnapping at St. Paul, where he helped round up the Karpis gang, the Jake The Barber Factor kidnapping, which netter Roger Touhy, the Charlie Ross and Count de Tristans sons kidnappings, the Harry Bridges deportation, and the breakup of the Miami County solicitors racket in 1940. Madalas assistants here include Wallace Foard, Who was an FBI police instructor for 10 years. Turf ana: William Yeenemans Dean Cavy, ineligible for the Arlington Futurity, is pointing for the Hyde Park Stakes. . . . Arlington limits the fields for turf course sprints to 10, in the interests of safety. . . . Han- Sheer has calculated that if the combined value 30,000 of the Arlington and Washington Handicaps were converted to hay, the bales laid end to end would stretch from Arlingtons main entrace to the stallion barn at Calumet Farm in Kentucky, roughly 400 miles. That is a lot of hay. . . . Happy Carrier may make his next appearance in the local Futurity. He, incidentally, calls attention to Eight Thirty as a broodmare sire. . . . Ken Church will ride some of the H. P. Headley horses here. . . . This corner has heard much favorable comment from the horsemen of Roy "Boots" Dickersons starting. His sendoffs are consistently fast and fair. . . . Eddie Arcaro golfs in the 80s. . . . The TRPBs Bob Laughlin is working Arlington this meeting. . . . Sweet Patootie has a back injury. . . . Dave Feldman plans buying two yearlings at the Keeneland sales to augment the string he is campaigning at Chicago tracks. . . . Veep Graham Smith is taking a more active interest in Arlingtons operation during Ben Lindheimers absence.
