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JUDGES STAND *y CHARLES HATT0N DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 16. — Most of the "stakes" for fillies-and-mares are handicaps actually, but the Michigan Racing Association has sufficient courage to offer a literal stake for1 them Saturday, when it renews its 0,000 Rose Leaves. The conditions provide a weight differential of a maximum of 14 pounds. And the 22 nominees include 1952s two-year-old filly champion, Sweet Patootie, Dun-treaths accomplished Dixie Flyer, a nimble invader from Ak-Sar-Ben called Auntie, the hard-hitting campaigner, Lilly Valenti, and a couple of Calumet castoffs having some pretensions to class in Bloom and Ever Bright. These all are considered more or less "probable starters." Harry Trotsek also nominated L. B. Mayers gallant little Princess Lygia, who is by way of proving a bargain even at a purchase price of 00,000. But she is not among the several horses Trotsek shipped here recently from Chicago and she has a date with 00,000-added in Delawares New Castle. Were The Princess to win that mile and a quarter, pedigree pundits who have been confounded by the stamina of the Polynesians and-Menows%this spring, shall have also to reconsider Roman. Though* she is only three, Sweet Patootie won the third running of the Rose Leaves here last summer, when it was offered exclusively for two-year-olds of her sex. We do not know if Lilly Valenti has the class quite, but this mare created a most favorable impression winning from Crownlet and several male sprinters in 1:10% here yesterday. She established the pace to the furlong pole, where Chic Wave headed her, then won a three-horse blanket finish. Altogether the Rose Leaves named for Sweet Patooties ancestress promises excellent entertainment, and more records for play and attendance may topple if the weather continues to behave so beautifully. Crack Field in Prospect for Rose Leaves Evening Out Mends for Filly Stakes Bert Mul hoi land in Praise of Tom Fool Bull Dogs Fame Grows as Bdmare Sire Several days ago at Belmont Park, Bert Mulholland showed us a filly who may have a future in the dark brown form of Mrs. George Wideners Evening Out. She won the National Stallion in a very contentious finish with Fascinator, a stable companion of Incidentally. There has been considerable, interest in a meeting of Evening Out and Incidentally, and it almost came off in the Polly Drummond, except that the Erdenheim filly injured a hock slightly and had to renege. Upcoming engagements for Evening Out are Aqueducts Astarita, and a filly stake at Monmouth Park. Evening Out is a Shut Out from the mare Evening Belle, by Eight Thirty. Evening Belle was injured in a fall, Mulholland recalls, and could no"t be raced. But she is out of ■ the high class Evening. It is a good family, that of Cre-puscule. "Evening Out shows Equipoises influence," the trainer said. "She is determined, as he was, and she has his head, with the convex profile. When we broke her out of the gate, they beat her away, but she always ran them down." Her knees incline to beropen, however they have given no difficulty up to now. She has not Inci-dentallys delicacy, but has more scope and-is the sort one expects a potential Oaks filly to look like at two. AAA Chatting of racing generally, Mulholland could not say too much for Tom Fools performance in the Suburban. "It appeared Royal Vale had him a sixteenth out, but he fought back and won out in a desperate finish. It was a really big race considering that he had up 128 and made all the running in that kind of time 2:00%." Mulholland produced a photo of the finish, saying, "Look at that expression in Tom Fools eyes. Great picture, that." We do not recall that we have seen such indomitabel spirit so graphically illustrated. The "will to win" is written in every line. Gaver occasionally makes forays to the Midwest, and it is hoped that the Michigan Mile of 0,000 will lure Tom Fool to Detroit. The conditions of this race J should appeal to the connections of any horses who have raced their way into high weights in the handicaps. There are all too few such events on the calendar in contemporary racing. Belmont had one in the Sysonby Mile, but abandoned it. AAA Not much point has been made of it, but we should think Bull Dog, imported by Detroit Parks E. E. Dale Shaffer, is going to rank well forward on the list of leading broodmare sires this season. Both Tom Fool and the Derby winner, Dark Star, now hors de combat, are from his daughters. Not forgetting Spartan Valor. Bull Dog mares always command large prices, ihough breeders for some time questioned if their foals would stay respectable distances. "As you doubtless know, Bull Dogs brother, Sir Gallahad m., was for many years the champion broodmare sire of America. Bull Dog was retired from production three or four years ago, having developed a wobbly condition, and he is spending his last days at Coldstream, where it is understood he is to be buried. What with Bull . Lea, Tonj Fool, Dark Star and Spartan Valor, it seems likely his name will appear in American pedigrees for many horse generations to come. And his descendants will be thought better for it. On the whole, the Bull Dogs ~ Continued on Page Thirty-Nine . i ■ I JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued ■ from Page Forty-Eight j are generous free-running animals, and most of them have some speed. A A A Turf ana: Detroit Park may boast one of 1952s champions in Mrs. Shaffers diminutive Sweet Patootie. . .-. Suffolks donation of ,000 to the Runyon Fund won a pony for children at a Boston school. . . . Grecian Queen was rated best of the three-year-olds named for this Wednesdays Top Flight with 112 pounds. . . . Hoodwink, Man o Wars only rival in one of his more bloodless successes, now has a namesake among 53 three-year-olds. . . . Bob Leavitt is advancing the landscaping program here. Sprays dead shrubs with green paint. . . . Bob Horwood has painted Native Dancer "as he looks to Arcaro," a southern view in full stride. . . . Battlefield now is turned out at Erdenheim. . . . Suffolk has discontinued TV. ... Australian "Winalot" overchecks are becoming quite de rigueur as part of the equipment for fashion-plated U. S. performers. . . . The English bookmaker, William Hill, has published an elaborate brochure on his vast London commission house, but it is almost subversive literature here.
