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JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. L. N. Y., June 13.— The script for the Aqueduct meet of 19 days, beginning on June 20, made its appearance today and.it promises a continuation of the high class sport here at Belmont Park. There are nine stakes features, including the 0,000 Carter of seven furlongs June 27, the 0,000 Dwyer of a mile and a quarter on the Fourth of July, and the. 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap at the same popular route on July 11. So far as we know, the Carter is the richest event of less than a mile for mature horses now on the roster of American stakes features. New Yorkers are. eagerly looking forward to seeing Greentrees stalwart Tom Fool in this event, and in the climactic Brooklyn, he was such, a good show at this meet. J. B. Campbell has been quoted to the effect "There is no handicap division," and indeed there has been a good deal of breakage in their ranks, what with Intent, Spartan Valor, Crafty Admiral and To Market idle owing to the vicissitudes of campaigning. But the two leaders of the division, Tom Fool and Royal Vale, surely are top drawer, the sort who would make their presence felt in any season. The Dwyer is expected to show Native Dancer again, this time in the role of top-weight in a three-year-old classic, for the Aqueduct stake is under allowance conditions. The weights begin at 126 and there is a spread of 12 pounds. Among the 37 other nominees are Royal Bay Gem, Correspondent, Platan, Invigorator and the Canadian filly champion, Canadiana. Jamie K. is a rather conspicious absentee. AAA A few days ago in Boston were were interested to have the impressions of visiting turf officials from neighboring Mexico, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, Central America and Western Canada. All felt they had learned something of value from attendance at the NASRC convention and Tom Fool, Dancer Point for Aqueduct Stakes Hope for New Central American Circuit Morgan on Wording on Stimulation Rules AORC Most International Association and inspection of Suffolk Downs. But we daresay there was no more keen, enthusiastic visitor than Edwardo Guirola, who represents the Ministry of Agriculture at El Salvadore. He arrived in the "Hub Cityy" a week early, to be sure he missed nothing we suppose,_and repeatedly phoned the convention headquarters to inquire what if anything was stirring. While this delegate was fascinated by the racing and discussions of its administration, he was equally fascinating on the subject of the sport at El Salvadore. He said that his countrymen are very eager to develop thoroughbred racing. So eager indeed they raced their horses on straightaways through the coffee plantations before-they constructed a six furlongs course with a modest stand, and staged their first meet over it on May 22, 1953. "We now have only 100 horses," Girdla said, "and only 25 owners. Naturally this makes supervising the sport a very delicate matter. We feel that the best solution is an expansion of ownership and the number of performers. This is the reverse of the situation which complicates matters for American turf solons. It is our hope to form a circuit, with Guatemala, Nicaragua, British Honduras and -possibly Panama." It was really rather touching to hear this earnest, intense young man tell of the primitive racing and his compatriots hopes for it. Just as it was to hear Puerto Ricos Angel Pesquera express his Racing Commissions fond hope of attaining affiliate membership in the NASRC. He even presented the NASRC with a, Puerto Rican flag, the gift of the Governor. George M. Cohan would have loved it. Only at times like these does the average American racing man fully appreciate the sport as it is presented here. AAA Charles E? Morgan, of the Association of Official Racing Chemists seems just as pleased the word "drugs" appears in the stimulation rules, for he observes there have been demands from time to time on racing officials to prepare and publish a list of forbidden substances. Morgan observes that "narcotic," "sedative," and "hypnotic" have an evil sound. "But what is meant, actually?" he asks "Medicine," "medicament," "medication." Are these general in meaning as their users intended? Racing rules seem to have placed an understandable but disproportionate amount of emphasis on the group of drugs known as narcotics. Fortunately there is an entirely satisfactory solution for the rule makers problem. There is a single word, sufficiently specific and amply defined, which can take the place in the antidoping rules of all of those I have mentioned and any I have omitted. It is the word drug. " AAA The Association of Official Racing Chemists is perhaps the most international of the worlds turf organizations. During their recent convention, it was learned that its* cosmic aspect now has assumed such scope it is represented in all five continents with members in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ceylon, England, Brazil, Chile, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Africa and Venezuela. There are 27 members from the 15 countries outside of continental United States, in addition to the 26 members here. They exchange information relative to the detection of drugs, in the guarded- way of those in the medical profession. No member of the AORC may provide information pertaining to laboratory methods and related Continued on Page Thirty-Eight JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Forty-Eight topics to any individual, until such individual has been properly certified as the official chemist by the racing authority of that area, according to former president Lewis E. Harri.The AORC notes that in some areas, saliva test or urinalysis only is made. It advocates both a saliva test or urinalysis in each examination. The AORC members do a prodigious amount of research, and in this way the sensitivity of techniques has been increased, new instruments for analysis have been developed. The spectrophotometer now is coming into more use as a supplemental method in many laboratories. Needless to say the AORC are doing a tremendously important job for racing the world over, one of vital significance in the sports conduct and public relations. AAA Turf ana: Royal Vale has a cross of the revitalized Hurry On strain through his dam Cora Deans. Prospect for the Hollywood Gold Cup, July 11. . .Michigans James Inglis is the only newspaperman serving. as a racing commisisoner. . .Incidentally may be pointed for Arlington-Washington filly features . . . Funnily enough Larry Ellis is by Easy Mon nevertheless stays 10 furlongs. . .Mexicos Sr. Obregon declares "Whether or not we fully realize it, racing is international and will become more so with each passing year."
