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JUDGES STAND BY CHARLES HATTON BOSTON Mass June 8 Things racing here in the Hub of the Uni ¬ verse may in time prove a bit wear ¬ ing but they certainly are not dull what with the National Association of State Racing Commissioners conven ¬ tion and the upcoming Massachusetts Handicap All the talk here today ports the tone Royal Vales presence lends Wednesdays 50000 Jamie Ks unsuspected early foot and the elfin Grecian Queens courageous performance in the Oaks which was seen on TV at Suffolk Hyperion again Her race was a complete apology for her dismal Delaware showing As for the convention it may not be the most exciting thing since the tea party but it is pursuing a constructive course and by the time of Thursdays ad ¬ journment we shall have heard a great many discussions of waysandmeans of further improving the sport Rac ¬ ing has come a long way since that first convention 19 years ago And the NASRC has been an extremely in ¬ fluential factor in its progress As the commissioners very efficient secretary Mrs A E Smith was remarking just now the NASRC serves as a kind of stabilizer Cyn ¬ ics occasionally have found time to say the commission ¬ ers agree to remedial measures in convention then return to their home states and forget about them There are some things not all the 24 commissioners cando But we think that in their unspectacular conservative way ihey have done and are doing racing a great service The NASRC recommended the installation of the tote made drug tests mandatory adopted punitive measures against the use of stimulants and depressants and in short has been a vital force for good Their regulations go far toward explaining the widespreading public acceptance NASRO Vital Force for Good of Turf Classics Correlate Speed Stamina Past Winner in Mass Cap LineUp Premium On Jumping Form at Stqnton of the sport and its respectability Until the NASRC was formed there was little if any exchange of information among those supervising racing And there were many more discrepancies in basic rules in many areas So the next time you hear the importance of the NASRC con ¬ ventions discounted you will know the critic is talking nonsense The results of the important spring races both here and across the Atlantic have occasioned some marginal surprise among pedigree pundits Native Dancer was not supposed to stay then disconcerted the experts by losing the Derby because it was not quite far enough to make his desperate challenge effective Again there was Tom Fools Suburban He is a Menow you know and there were grave doubts he would get a mile and a quarter Quite as re ¬ markably the recent Epsom Oaks was won by Ambiguity Who is a daughter of Big Game This stallions name is interpreted to represent speed and not much stamina by students of these things abroad Thus again the ex ¬ perts are confounded and shall have to assign Big Game a new value The f orm of Native Dancer Tom Fool and Ambiguity is not however anything to controvert the breeding theories of the Aga Khan On the contrary he long has maintained that speed may produce stamina but never vice versa arid he has practiced this theory with much success The families developed at his several studs are essentially agencies of speed Particularly that of the flying filly Mumtaz Mahal whence have come the stayers Migoli Mahmoud and Nasrullah and the very fast piableretta and Rivaz Of course there are no unfail ¬ ing pedigree patterns by which breeders may hope to be delivered from the elements of chance But it could be that the Aga Khan has something there thereA A A A ASuffolk Suffolk Downs will have its day in the turf sun this Wednesday when thhe 50000 Massachusetts Handicap will be renewed at the popular mile and a quarter dis ance The handicapper paid Tom Fool a pretty compli ¬ ment with topweight of 130 pounds All too flattering perhaps for he is not to accept nor will One Hitter depu ¬ tize for him as some supposed though he is a past winner of the Boston stake Another who has inscribed his name on the Massachusetts honor roll Little Sam Masons To Market may oppose Royal Vale under 120 pounds And Royal Vale may have to deal with C V Whitneys stout little Cold Command who has 113 The Massachusetts always has been one of the highest lights of the New England season and to all indications this renewal will mark no exception What with the interest it has stirred about town and the uptrending attendances it could possibly attract one of the largest crowds since its inception in 1935 The day is rather festive with picnics footraces between the jockeys bands and other diverting features Sort of a racing holiday for Yankees Back at Delaware Park the management is making preparations o open its chase season on June 22 which involves placing two hedge courses in order and increas ¬ ing track superintendent Pardees staff to keep the ob obConilnucd Conilnucd on Page FortyFire I JUDGES STAND STANDBy By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page FortySigh FortySighstacles stacles in good order replace divots and so on Two of thes takes the 10000 George ¬ town on June 26 and the 10OQO Indian River on July 3 will be renewed over the exacting stakes course as it is called It is not for rapid jumpers like Oedipus for ex ¬ ample He was not nominated for either Rather it calls for the jumping form of an Elkridge who won five renewals of the In ¬ dian River so many indeed a large and very cross section of steeplechase trainers peti ¬ tioned the club to transfer it to the regular course where the hazards are less like Ain trees Willie duPont whose hobby is designing steeplechase courses was not par ¬ ticularly moved by this appeal however and forthrightly has continued to place the premium on the ability to clear big jumps The Indian River longest of Delawares chase stakes at about two miles and a half drew 23 nominees this summer among them last years winner Jam the 51 winner Crooning Wind and The Mast MastA A A A ATurf Turf ana Most remedial racing legisla ¬ tion to come but of NASRC conventions is the uniformity of rules R E Cudahy may have a nice twoyearold in Hot Pilot who overcame enough trouble to defeat most seasoned campaigners winning a maiden race at Santon Mrs Weirs I Montchanin candidate Star of Persia is among the few TJ S performers by Tehran sire of the famed Tulyar Has the same imperturbable disposition though the re ¬ semblance ends there Tony DeSpirito still is the toast of Bostoniarts and certainly is not in restraint of trade along Suffolks tote line E P Taylors Canadiana may be invited to represent Canada in Laurels International
