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JUDGES STAND *y charus hatton PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 5. — Eddie Hayward, who came into new prominence as a trainer in 2:02 flat at Louisville last Saturday, outlined to us his plans for Dark Star the other morning. "I am thinking now of transferring him from Belmont Park to Pimlico a week before his Preakness engagement," the pleasant little Canadian said. "I want him to become well acquainted with the Baltimore track. There is a Preakness Trial there on Tuesday before the big race, you know. Probably I will start him in that, following the same pattern he did at the Downs, when he ran in the Derby Trial on Tuesday of Derby Week." Hayward added that he, for one, appreciates the three weeks interval between the Derby and Preakness. "It affords a trainer time to rest his horse a bit before plunging him into the Preakness," he observed. In the past a good many colts who experienced a hard race at Louisville still were "dead on their feet" Preakness Day, when this mile and three-sixteenths was decided the following Saturday. We do not know, of course, but we wonder if Straight Face, whose knees were somewhat shopworn after the Derby, would not have been knocked out of the Preakness under the old schedule. Possibly he will be unable to fill the engagement in any case, but there now is more time for him to recover sufficiently. Hayward, who is fiftyish, is by no means an unfamiliar figure about the tracks. A native of Brigdon, Ont.. he became a jockey at the age of 16 in 1919. He rode with moderate success for eight years. As most riders inevitably do, Hayward applied for a trainers license, in the late 20s, introducing James Norris as an owner under the nom du course Peconic Stable. Dark Star is by no means the first runner he has conditioned. He handled Miche for Mrs. J. Payson Adams, and before that trained toa top-drawer miler in Night Commander. Dark Star won Hayward Outlines Plans for Derby Winner Gordon Guiberson Assembling Select Stable Marylanders Rooting Interest in Dancer* Enlarging N. O. Fair Grounds Facilities the Derby Trial in 1:36, which was amply fast enough, but actually Night Commander was among the first horses to better a flat 1:36. AAA Gordon Guiberson, the oil man and sportsman, of La Jolla, Calif., will soon have a more select stable for campaigning. Recently in Kentucky he purchased, by private treaty, five of the first American-bred yearlings by the noted Irish sire, Nasrullah. Several of these originally had been intended for the summer auctions, and indications now are that few if any Nasrullahs will be placed on the open market this season. Nasrullah is represented in English racing this spring by Nearula, who won the Two Thousand Guineas recently at Newmarket and is the current favorite for the Epsom Derby, to be renewed June 6 at Epsom Downs. Noors sire already this year is represented by a minor Derby winner here in the States in Cur-ragh King, who accounted for that in Arkansas. And he is, as we have previously stated, one of a few proven "classic sires" available to U. S. breeders. Guiberson has not been in racing long, but is eager to assemble a string of top class performers. Arroz represented him in the Derby and Preakness last spring. He purchased Correspondent from Rex Ellsworth. And he says that he accounts himself especially fortunate, as a small operator, to have had two colts in succession good enough to deserve a chance in the three-year-old classics. AAA Marylanders are rooting for Native Dancer in the Preakness almost to a man. Though A. G. Vanderbilts colt has never raced in this state, and was foaled in Kentucky, he was reared and taught the rudiments of being a race horse at Sagamore, where he is to serve at stud, This gives Free Staters an unusual interest in the gray son of Polynesian. And they are almost fiercely proud of any horse on which they have a claim, remembering "Challedon My Challedon." Actually, however, their claim on "The Dancer is more vicarious than that on his sta-blemate, Social Outcast, who was conceived in Kentucky, but foaled at Sagamore, it says here. A. G. Vanderbilts is incomparably the most important of Marylands thoroughbred breeding farms, and it has benefited the general quality of the eligibles for homebred races. For some years, Vanderbilts neighbors have been breeding their mares to Discovery, who has consistently stood weU up on the list of leading sires, though he has never produced an outstanding champion. The 1950 Dixie winner, Loser Weeper, the Santa Anita Derby winner, Knockdown, probably were his most distinguished sons, and his daughter. Traffic Court, who won the Beverly, was considerably better than an empty stall. Vanderbilt also stood the unbeaten English horse, Bahrain, at Sagamore for several years, and there is much of his blood here and in Virginia, where he alternated in stud at Walter Chryslers North Wales. AAA The extraordinary gains which the turf sport has made in public appeal has prompted many clubs to enlarge their facilities. The New Orleans Fair Grounds Gar* Moore, a recent visitor to Kentucky, told us last week end that improvements now are under way at that non-profit course. The grandstand is being extended toward the paddock, providing seat for 2,000 more patrons, and "tote" facilities on the mezz will relieve some Continued en Page Thirty-Eight J JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Forty-Eight of the congestion along the main line on holidays and Saturdays. The Creole style 3 clubhouse also is being further enlarged, £ providing for 600 more guests on the , porch. And several cottages on property 0 adjacent to the parking lots that were re- - cently acquired by the Fair Grounds will i be removed to serve more of the carriage - trade. Last winters meet at the charming _" old New Orleans course was the most suc-C cessful in its long history. Moore tells us j* that the stakes and purse program will be j announced sometime in June. It is un-j likely there will be more stakes events. J J Rather, the club proposes to increase its ► purse minimum as business warrants. A A * ►" Turf ana: The prospect that the acreage : near Pimlico will be rezoned commercially J to permit further development of the track now seems somewhat brighter. . . . The 1 Derby gate is estimated to have exceeded : 00,000. . . . Improvements in the baroque I old clubhouse here have increased Pimlicos i revenue from admissions. . . . John D. Jackson has the Baltimore track proper in j splendid condition this spring, and is giv-: ing the new turf course the benefit of ex-j perience gained with those at Arlington and Washington. . . . Churchill Downs has no messenger service. . . . Pimlico has the largest innerfield odds board in use, much more comprehensive than the one it replaced, with complete wagering pools on each entrant, straight, place and show. . . . Keenelands board, incidentally, is one of 10 units, so that there is a mutuel "field" if more than that number of horses start. . . . Spy Defense and Curragh King may be made eligible for the Preakness upon payment of the supplemental fee of ,500 by midnight May 9.
