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JUDGES S T A N D fiy CHARLES "ATT0N DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich, June 17. — Public response to the sport which the Michigan Racing Association has presented fhe first 17 days of the 57 comprising this meet is "up" just 1,000 in "tote" action. This would seem scarcely worth, mentioning, except that last spring the meet enjoyed a Memorial Day holiday as well as a Saturday, whereas ■ the holiday fell on a Saturday this season. Perhaps this circumstance accounts for the somewhat retarded "uptrend" also at several other points operating in late May and early June. The. best racing at this point is still to be presented, with the Rose Leaves of 0,000 this week end, the 5,000 Frontier Handicap on the Fourth of July, the 0,000 Michigan Mile on July 125, and the ,500 Governors Stakes-August 1. The Michigan Mile could possibly attract Tom Fool. And it was learned today that Crafty Admirals nomination was received in the mornings mail. Also that the Michigan favorite, Sickles Image is pointing for "The Mile." The ubiquitous daughter of Sickletoy is to make her first appearance of the 53 season at an early date here, journeying to Arlington, perhaps for the 5,000 Peabody Handicap on July 8, then returning to this point for the Michigan Mile. As a three-year-old in 51, Sickles Image won the mile Arlington Matron in one of the most brilliant performances of recent years by one of her sex. Detroit Parks stakes program is far more ambitiou? than it was in 52, and it will be surprising if, in the final analysis, the average play doesnt exceed that of 01,000 a year ago by an appreciable margin. * , AAA Several days ago in New York we learned that Cyrus Jullien and his associates have made some improvements in the Queens County course for the convenience of their Racing Interest Grows in Motor City More Conveniences at Aqueduct Course Royal Chargers Winning Stakes Abroad Canadiana Gives Gazelle Internal Aspect patrons at the meet opening Saturday. All of the roads and parking areas have been resurfaced, and the club built a street, two blocks long, linking Pitkin Avenue directly with the course. This will be appreciated by Brooklyn patrons. Also the entire plant has been repainted. The racing surface, with its sharp turns and long stretches, is reported as good as ever it has been since it was foreshortened from nine furlongs to a mile. The Aqueduct stands, obviously adapted from the design of a rabbit warren, seem to. fill up rapidly on Saturdays and holidays, but the point is they do fill. Not to add to anybodys discomfort, but Aqueduct now is an antiaircraft base. The Queen County club has turned about 20 of its acres over to the armed forces for this purpose, radar, anti-aircraft batteries, and other rather bellicose looking gadgets have been installed. Opening day there will be a 20-man color guard from the base. The feature is the traditional Queens County Handicap of a mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds and upward. Cold Command, Ancestor, High Scud, One Hitter and Count Turf are among the prospective starters. AAA "Irish Racing and Breeding," a copy of which has been following us about this country for some days, finally was delivered and it contains something of interest for American bloodstock breeders. Sea Charger, a son of the re-- cent purchase, Royal Charger, won the Irish 2,000 Guineas, and another of that stallions progeny, the filly, Banri An Oir, accounted for the Athasi Plate. As we have previously noted, his daughter, Happy Laughter, won the 1,000 in England. Still another Royal Charger, Beau Triomphe, is considered one of the better two-year-old fillies uncovered thus far in the Irish season. She won the Brook Two-Year-Oold Plate at Phoenix Park. Since his sale to L. B. Mayer, Neil McCarthy and Leslie Combs, n., Royal Charger has been enjoying his greatest success as a sire across the Atlantic. And whereas the Royal "chargers were considered specifically sprinters_ heretofore, several have shown an inclination to get respectable distances. In commenting updh his pedigree here-some weeks back, it was noted that his bloodlines were fully as stout as those of his three-parts brother, Nasrullah, AAA The 5,000 Gazelle of a mile and one-sixteenth on June 24 is expepcted to have interational significance, with E. P. Taylors Queens Plate winner, Canadiana, among the probables. This chancebred daughter of Chop Chop and Iribelle was the Horse of the Year in the Dominion last season and she appears to have trained on better than most precocious two-year-old fillies. In the Gazelle the invader may be vis-a-vis Mrs. Ben Whitakers Grecian Queen, who is considered the pro tern leader of her age and sex in. this country. Not to mention that the Black-Eyed Susan winner, Spinning Top, and the Acorn winner, Secret Meeting* are candidates, along with Mac Bea, Rica Rosa, Sabette and Hows Tricks. This last-mentioned filly is regarded, optimistically perhaps, by some eastern observers as a serious candidate for three-year-old filly honors. She races for Greentree, won two in a row at Belmont and is by Questionnaire, out of Whats New. Her dam was undersized and was shipped to Miami early in her two-year-old form with a view of peddling her, but she developed unexpected speed and became a stakes winner. This will be the fifty-eighth running of the Gazelle, and none of its predecessors was won by an in- Continued on Page Thirty-Nine JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Forty-Eight ferior filly, the winners in late years including Cosmic Missile, Sweet Dream, Nell K., Next Move, Kiss Me Kate and the hapless Hushaby Baby. AAA Turf ana: Delegate,, Herb Woolfs nine-year-old trouper, reminded he is in the Carter when he won in 1:11% under 122 pounds in Nassau County the other day. . . . C. V. Whitney has a nimble but green two-year-old in Catspaw. . . . The Skeeeters meet next at Monmouth. . . . Greentree has raced just three of the progeny of Menow, two of them being Capot and Tom Fool. . . . J i Samuel Perlman is visiting Paris. . . . Fred Purner is enthusiastic about Santa Anitas new turf course, above and beyond the call of duty.
