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*w "■■i ... . .■■ .. -«?■■■*■ -~™™~™- I JUDGES STAND «y CHARLES HATT0N PIMLICO, Baltimore. Md., May 23. — The seasons leading three -year-old colts now wiill have a respite pending the running of the Belmont, last of the "Triple Crown" events, and turf-goers attention will be diverted by I the fillies in Pimlicos Black-Eyed I Susan, Delawares Oaks and Garden 1 States States Colonial Colonial next next week-end week-end. Wp We -~™™~™- 1 States States Colonial Colonial next next week-end week-end. Wp We suppose +hat how one feels about this conflict depends upon wnether one is operating a race course or trying to win a filly stake. Since the Delaware Oaks has the greatest value with 0,000 added, it is not surprising Calumets Kentucky Oaks heroine, Bubbley, is there to introduce the devils red to Delawarians. And since the Dan Rices are unconvinced Bubbley can again beat Cerise Reine, it is no less understandable she is to oppose Real Delights rangy sister at the lovely Stanton course. As of this morning, Jimmy Conway had not decided where Mrs. Whitakers beautifully-bred Grecian Queen will spend the Memorial Day holiday, but her form at Belmont on Friday was a complete apology for her dismal Acorn performance, and her people have not lost confidence in her. Seemingly, the Heliopolis filly is the antitype of a rail runner. Many fillies are timid racing on the inside. Louie Lee Haggins Sally Catbird has the best local form of the prospects for Pimlicos 0,000 Black-Eyed Susan, and she may be opposed in this mile and a sixteenth by such as Sabette and Wings o Morn, two Alsab fillies, and His Duchess and Milspal, who gave futile chase to Grecian Queen the other day. The betting is that when the dust has settled after the Memorial Day features and Belmonts classical CCA Oaks, Calumets Bubbley will emerge as the one-to-beat for the seasons three-year-old filly title. Ben Jones wishes she were a bit less lightwaisted, but she has seemed to improve steadily since recovering from an attack of influenza in the late winter. Oaks Fillies Entertain on Holiday Week End Discovery Founder of Vanderbilt Stud Press Favors Thoroughbred Sport in Texas Dinner Stakes Catches On in Maryland Alfred Vanderbilt says that his theory of bloodstock breeding is absurdly simple, "One just breeds a Discovery mare to something." Conversely, it occurs he has not fared too badly breeding something to Discovery. For that 22-year-old patriarch has sired Loser Weeper, Geisha Native Dancers dam, Good Thing Bed o* Roses dam , and many other nice horses for -lie master of Sagamore. Matter of fact, one might say the noted weight carrier founded Sagamore, as we know it today. Himself a very large, tremendously strong individual, Discoverys issue are uniformly substantial colts and fillies, so much so indeed they are making the annual Pimlico yearling shows rather funny. When a brown Discovery filly out of Now And Again won the blue ribbon at the recent exhibit of Maryland-bred yearlings, it marked the eighth time since 1932 a Sagamorean has won the title. If there is anything in Vanderbilts breeding theory, we may all expect his stud to produce more high class race horses, for he owns somewhat more Discovery mares than anybody else. Seven of his 31 producers are by that stallion. A contemporary performer by Discovery who intrigues breeders for her potentialities at stud is not carrying the cerise and white diamonds however. We are referring to M. A. Cremens Be Gracious, who is out of the good mare. Her Grace, and was bred by Harry Parr. Cremen is said to have resisted some flattering offers for her. A typical Discovery physically, Be Gracious has what the Irish call a "dry head," which is to say she has a quiet, sober mein, and apparently she is just a cut below stakes class. In a recent mile and a sixteenth at this point, she beat Sonic and other allowance horses in 1:45%. This time was two-fifths faster than that of the Preakness Prep, if that signifies anything. AAA Texas legalized the thoroughbred sport with mutue. wagering in 1933, repealed the act in 1938, closing Arlington, Epsom and Alamo Downs and Fair Park. However there seems to have been, in recent months, a growing, if disorganized, disposition to reconsider thoroughbred racing. On our desk is a thick stack of tear sheets from the Denton, Texas, "Record Chronicle," containing a series of eight column articles "explaining the sport or thoroughbred horse racing, and setting forth the history, popularity, economical aspects, breeding and sociological bearing of horse racing." The series was authored b Allen Bogan, and is very informative, comprehensive and favorable toward the sport as it is conducted in the present day. Bogan describes the functions of the TRA and TRPB, racing revenues benefactions in improving schools. roads and teachers salaries, its importance to the agricultural economy of the nation, and its present stature among U. S. spectator sports. Bogan pays New Orleans Fair Grounds a compliment in his concluding article, when he writes, "The weekly televising of a major horse race each Saturday over a major network, is serving to help popularize racing and prove to skeptics that the sport is clean, colorful and exciting." There is a feeling among those on the scene in Texas that eventually, racing will be restored there, though it now has a strong, concerted opposition. AAA John Jackson has a thought concerning the new Maryland Jockey Club Dinner Stakes which ?eems to Continued on Page Thirty-Three c t i l * t ■ * c a ■ v r £ ■ • J J J ■ t ] « i , j ] 1 j - ■ j j I i * I ] » I 1 1 JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Forty warrant, and doubtless will receive, serious consideration. The "raison detre of these things is to interest new owners in racing. The Keeneland original is sponsored by the Thoroughbred Club of America, and all its members are invited, for a nominal subscription fee, to lease two-year-olds for the race, starting them in their own colors, or borrowed silks if they prefer. Maryland has no organization comparable to the TCA. And the Maryland Breeders Association is comprised, of course, of those who already are horse owners. Jackson would invite members of the Maryland Jockey Club to lease colts and fillies for future Dinner Stakes, without excluding horse owners. A number of the membership, which totals about 500, now have racing strings. Just as many TCA members maintain stables. The Dinner Stakes are very popular at Keeneland, where they have served to introduce such cracks as Bewitch and Some Chance, and the social whirl in the clubhouse following the stake is highly enjoyable. It sometimes is necessary to split the field two or three ways. We thought the inaugural of the Maryland Jockey Club Dinner Stakes went down very well, and expect that in future springs it will become one of the highlights of the Pimlico season. AAA „ Turfana: An exhibition of paintings by horse artist Jean Bowman is attracting much favorable comment in the Grand Central Galleris, 15 Vanderbilt, Avenue, New York City . . . E. Barry and John Barry Ryan were recent Pimlico visitors, admiring the improvements in the property. The latter goes to England next week . . . That "grass" one now sees on Pimlicos turf course is mostly a nurse crop of rye . . . "Manny" Mercer, who looks better on a horse than most any other rider of the present day, already is living up to Gordon Richards prophesy that he has a great future. He has this season won two stakes on Wilwyn, the 1,000 Guineas on Happy Laughter, and Chester Vase on Empire Honey. . .William Woodwards Twirler must miss her Epsom Derby engagement . . Harry Guggenheim has a two-year-old filly by Royal Gem II. he likes . . . Leeds Riely was present to see his Moose Eye win and reports the geldings dam, Eyeopener, now has a splendid Noble Impulse colt.
