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Connors Corner *—— By "CHUCK" CONNORS Turfmen Deplore Stake Conflicts Two Filly Fixtures This Week End Error Keeps Jamie K. Out of Dwyer BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 27. — The Coaching Club American Oaks, with its 0,000 added, is the big one of of the the Belmont Belmont Park Park of of the the Belmont Belmont Park Park meeting for the three-year-old members of the distaff family. This event over the mile and three furlongs distance, the start is effected on the Widener course with a half turn to the main track, is down for decision on Saturday, June 6. It was inaugurated i n 1917 1917 and and has has been been an an i • : i a i 5 1917 1917 and and has has been been an an important member of the agenda since that time. The starting field for the event, there were 91 nominations made on January 15, will be determined following the running of the Delaware Oaks and the Black-Eyed Susan, the latter at Pimlico, over the week end. Conflicts in important stake offerings such as these are deplored by racing men, in what could be loosely termed adjoining areas. The distance from Pimlico to Delaware Park is what the boys call a hop, skip and jump under modern day travel conditions, and horse vans devour the 60-odd miles in a hurry. The effect on the turnstiles is something else again. Delaware Park relies for patronage on Philadelphia as does Garden State, while Pimlico has its turnstile turning reservoir from Washington, D. C, and the greater Baltimore area. Garden State Park will wind up its meeting on "Saturday and no doubt due to its proximity to Philadelphia will absorb the bulk of the patronage ! that nominally would go to the Delaware center. However, thats neither here nor there and, no doubt in the future, the racing department in drawing up stake schedules will essay to avoid the conflicts. On 1 the other hand, the clash will react in favor of Belmont Park, that is from a publicity ■ angle, for it could bring together the J winners of the two stakes in a sort of round robin which could be built up into some intensive ballyhoo. And in speaking of stake races, John Partridge, who has Jamie K. for the Spring Hill Farm, is in something of a dither over a clerical mistake that probably cost the colt the Dwyer Stakes. The nomination of the colt was forwarded early for the two stakes but alas and alack, the check for the nominating fee covered the Shevlin, the lesser of the two offerings. In the Dwyer, Jamie K. could have carried 114 and be in receipt of Contimued on Page Forty-Four s c t i £ c i £ i £ j , ] ] ■ -i _ 5 r 1 1 I [ p I j ] ed J ay was as ai. i ag the he ! ng I but ut »1_ [y his lis Qd a a five first rst i96 8,- ff Connors Corner By C. J. CONNORS Continued from Page Four plenty of weight from Native Dancer and others. There is many a slip between the cup an J the lip and old John Partridge has decided to give up using cups and hope for the best. This is not the first time it happened and no doubt will happen again. The Shevlin follows the Belmont in less than one week and more than likely Jamie K. will not be seen under colors in that offering. Partridge stated on several occasions that his charge is still green and growing and that he does not intend to punish him by excessive racing. There are, he points out, some offerings for him as a four-year-old, including a flock of handicaps that are worth while winning, not only for prestige later on in the breeding business but that little thing known as monetary award. Trainer Jim Ryan shipped a draft of the Rokeby Stable and some owned by Mrs. Esther duPont Weir to Delaware Park for racing at that track. Royal Vale will remain here to fulfill his engagement in the Suburban with Jack Westrope in the saddle . . . Major Albert Warner, who races under the nom de course of the Warbern Stable, will leave for Los Angeles next week on business and a look-see at Hollywood Park racing ... Trainer Dolly Byers reported that he will ship Case Goods, owned by William Goadby Loew, to Delaware Park for her engagement in the Polly Drummond Stakes . . . Owner J. A. Grant and trainer Eddie Legere checked in this morning to witness his Africanse in a tune -up for her Coaching Club American Oaks en-gamegent. . .Trainer Bill Booth will ship some of the I. J. Collins horses to Delaware Park for racing at that track. m Trainer J. H. "Casey" Hayes reported that the two-year-old Era, an acquisition for C. T. Chenery from the Aga Khan sale at Saratoga Springs, was shipped up from the Boswell, Va., farm and is back in training. . Mrs. Edward S. Moore, mistress of Circle M Stable, was among the visitors yesterday. She plans to leave for Delaware Park where her horses in charge of Frank Catrone will be campaigned during that meeting . . . Horatio Luro will ship a draft of horses to Chicago for the Arlington and Washington Park meetings . . Mrs. Seth Morton came down from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and reported that the Union Avenue grounds were in tip-top condition . . Frank R. Warton, of the Illinois Racing Board, was among yesterdays clubhouse visitors . . . The stake nomination blanks for the Narragansett Park meeting are available at the local secretarys of f ice ... Trainer Kay Jensen plans to ship some horses to Arlington Park for that meeting ... Sir Ashley Sparks, the steamship man, forgot about ocean lanes, tourists and freightage as he scanned the afternoons program. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Mazor, of Washington, D. C, were among the visitors yesterday. They came up to lend moral support to Master Fiddle who started under the Myhelyn Stable colors during the afternoon . . . Trainer Sol Rutchick has taken a call on the services of ap- prentice Tony Falco who is under con-i tract to Hirsch Jacobs . . . Irving Gushen, the liasion man for the HBPA, checked in yesterday on business matters pertaining to that organization . . . Jimmy Kilroe will check out for Chicago early in June to take over the racing secretary-» ship at Arlington and Washington Parks for those meetings. Joe Eitinger, master of Marlboro Stud, relays word from Paris, France, that racing in that area is top class. He is due back for the Saratoga Springs season . . Ed Christmas showed up this morning in hip boots and then blamed it on the weather, The thermometer took a pronounced drop following the rains. . .Trainer Maurice Dix- . on will select the horses that are destined for racing at Delaware Park this morning, and ship some tomorrow . . . Jockey Eddie Arcaro will, according to schedule, ride at Arlington and Washington Parks during that meeting. He will do the bulk of the riding for the Calumet Farm of Mrs. Gene Markey . . Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords hopes to be on hand for the Suburban on Satur-;ve day. She is recovered from an illness that has had her on the sidelines for some time. One Count is the stable colorbearer in that dash. ;
