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" JUDGES STAND by charles hatton GARDEN STATE PARK. Camden, N, J., May 26.— The meeting at this modish Quarker City course is proving a pronounced, not to say, a prodigious success. Matter of fact, Garden State has been something of a phenomenon businesswise ever since its introductory meeting in 1942. If you you are are interested, interested, the the daily daily average average " you you are are interested, interested, the the daily daily average average play for the first four weeks of this spring season is ,915,543, which represents an increase of 16.5 per cent in contrast to 1952 statistics. Perhaps more significant, actually, is the fact that the daily average crowds are 21,458, a figure which would represent a gratifying Saturday attendance at many of the nations 60 odd tracks. The increase in patronage this spring is one of 8.6 per cent. Comparisons are odious, as they say, but it is an obvious one that Garden State has enjoyed a larger volume of play than even Belmont Park a good deal of the time, though it is not drawing upon a community of 10,000,000. Frankly, we shouldnt have thought, when Garden State opened, it would meet with anything like the success which it has, the area is traditionally so very staid and conservative. Turns out it has an unexpected ratio of sport lovers, and then too, the club has done an exemplary job of cultivating their interest. Two stakes are to be decided these final four days. Some of the seasons better two-year-old fillies have been named for this Wednesdays Rancocas, and on the holiday closing Saturday there is the 0,000 Colonial for more mature fillies and mares. There is an interesting prospect that Atalanta, Parading Lady, Bobs Betty, Landmark and others of that high caliber will distinguish the Colonial with their presence. AAA There has been a suggestion in the press that the Queens Aureole is going to win this years Coronation Garden State Park Meet Spectacular Success Queens Aureole Among Epsom Derby Choices May Be Invited to Laurel for International Winfreys Analysis of Dancers Capacity Derby by special courtesy. We did not read it, because we were made ill just hearing about such a disgraceful, libelous piece of tripe. For nothing could be farther from the truth. It would be nice were Aureole, who was bred at the National Stud, to win this particular Epsom Derby under the royal red, gold and purple. The Queen is a devoted, knowledgeable horsewoman, and all her subjects would rejoice were the son of Hyperion to carry the day. But beating the Royal Stables horses is considered a special honor among Britons when it can be done. It may seem an anomaly and yet it is quite true. It is this special pride which English turfmen and women take in a victory over their beloved rulers horses that makes the implication the Derby result may be prefabricated so unspeakably absurd. As readers of this space know, Aureole has a perfect right to prove the best of his generation. In his first start as a two-year-old he showed high promise, and even then it was felt the new Queen might very well have a top class prospect for this seasons classics*. Captain Boyd-Rochfort raced him conservatively, as he does all his two-year-olds, and not long ago produced him at Lingfield, where he wor the Derby Trial Stakes and became very highly fancied in future book betting on the Derby itself. Aureole last fall was mentioned to us as a Derby prospect by no less an authority than is Gordon Richards. Not only is he a son of the great Hyperion, he is out of a staying Donatello II. mare, and comes of the strongest family developed at the National Stud, that of Feela and other Oaks class fillies. Addi tionally, he is the "Epsom type," as are most of the progeny of his Derby winning sire — which is to say he has the balance to negotiate the incline at the start and the precipitous Tattenham Corner, a decline with a right angle turn nicely calculated to throw a badly made animal. Indeed several have fallen there. It would be a wonderful thing for racing the world over were so enthusiastic a patron as the Queen to develop another like the royal familys Persimmon and Diamond Jubilee. John Barry Ryan, incidentally, tells us she now has 14 horses in training, the largest string maintained by an English ruler in generations. AAA The world now is a small place, only a few hours around really, and if Aureole maintains his present form he will undoubtedly be invited to participate in Laurels Washington, D. C, International next November. John Schapiro is keeping cases on the activities of the better stakes performers across the Atlantic, and will be well-informed when time comes to assemble the field for this event. Former ambassador George A. Garrett, who is a Laurel director, is going to Europe soon and will do some missionary work in connection with the first renewal of the stake. He is well known in racing circles there. Visiting turf scribes for this mile and a half last fall thought it preposterous Wilwyn should be held at shorter odds than Zucchero, but he has this season confirmed his Laurel form. This, along with the fact he could almost literally jump off a plane and run his race here, is most encouraging to owners across "The Big Ditch." AAA Everyone seems to have his own explanation of Native Dancer, and BUI Winfrey recently was asked how he accounts for the grays superior ability. That perceptive horseman thinks. "Perhaps it is a super respiratory Continued on Page Forty I JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Forty-Four system. Things which would make a normal horse tired seem to stimulate him actually." His exercise boy, Bernie Everson, weighs 130 pounds, and yet the Sagamorean comes off the track after working in race time, kicking and playing, dragging a 220 pounds groom about at the end of a shank. The Dancers system must crack up oxygen and dispel the eneverating lactic acid at an unusual rate to enable him to accomplish things which would fatigue the average thoroughbred. In instances in which autopsies have been performed for scientific study of what makes superior horses tick, it has been found that they have larger hearts than most of the species. For example, Dr. Crile, who has made an extensive study of the relation of the heart, brain, adrenals and thyroid in various species of animals, discovered that Equipoise had the largest heart of any thoroughbred subjected to such research. AAA Turf ana: None of the winners of "the blue" at Pimlico yearling shows has ever won the Back Again Purse, for the colts and fillies exhibited, the following year. . . . "Red" Pollard, who used to ride Seabiscuit, is proving he still has not lost the winning touch here at Camden. . . . Remy Dorr was a recent Pimlico visitor. . . . Lord Astor has purchased a Black Tarquin filly and a filly by Count Fleet, out of Holocaust, from among Claibornes yearlings this summer. . . . Four of Citations first progeny now have been delivered at Mrs. Gene Markeys Calumet Farm in Kentucky. There is a chestnut colt out of Mar-Kell; a brown colt, out of Shameen; a chestnut filly, out of Always, and a bay filly, out of Rosary II. . . . Citations dam, Hydroplane II., is rearing a brother to that horse and has been bred to the Preakness winner, Faultless. . . . Pat Farrell will assist Jimmy Kilroe at Arlington-Washington. . . . Royal Vales form is a complete apology for his failure as a chase prospect. . . . Walter Donovan believes the theatre-type paddocks are the coming thing in race track construction.
