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JUDGES STAND *y CHARL£s hatton DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 19.— This week end is fillies with "great expectations" in the Midwest, what with the Rose Leaves here in the Motor City, the Lincoln Handicap climaxing a successful Lincoln-at-Hawthorne meet, and final preparations for the inaugural auguitu iviuimtty Monday ui of .tilling Arlington wju Parks .trains auguitu iviuimtty Monday ui of .tilling Arlington wju Parks .trains stakes-spangled summer season. The local Rose Leaves has attracted perhaps the classiest field in its history, what with Dixie Flyer, Sweet Patootie, Crownlet, Bloom and Lilly Valenti among the 14 entered for this six furlongs. One finds it difficult just to guess the favorite, and imagines the race will inspire considerable "tote" action. Mrs. E. E. -Dale Shaffers diminutive Sweet Patootie, who won this event last summer, will have to reproduce her top form to bring off a double. The Rose Leaves is to mark .the first appearance of the season for Duntreaths accomplished Dixie Flyer, who carries topweight of 122 pounds, but she is reputed to have trained satisfactorily. And Bloom came here from Chicago highly recommended. Though the Lincoln Handicap" at the neighboring metropolis is not for fillies, there seems some possibility one will win it, in any case, for Dave Papers Sunny Dale is an entrant, and she has a following She is an Eight Thirty and has improved as she matured, progressing from a castoff relegated to claimers at a halfer Into a first-rate stakes performer at Hialeah. No doubt she and some of the Rose Leaves field will meet later, in some of the many features at Arlington Park. AAA Warner Jones, the Downs director and master of Hermitage Farm, advises us that the stud fee for the An- zac, Royal Gem H., has indeed been increased to ,000, as somewhat vague earlier reports had it. As you may know, Battle Royal Looms in Rose Leaves Today Royal Gem II. in Demand at Fee of ,000 More Emphasis on Grass Racing Indicated Charles McLennans Appraisal of Dancer that fee first was asked for Man o Wars services, but it is becoming more and more the established price for sires of classic winners in America today. Dark Star and Royal Bay Gem, who are the most conspicuous members of Royal Gem H.s first crop of foals, have made him quite fashionable. And Jones observes: "We have 50 applications for seasons to him at ,000, several of them from breeders who wish to subscribe on a three years basis." Jones has acquired some other shares in the syndicated Australian and now holds 15 seasons for Hermitage, where this scion of Solario serves. As you might guess, there has recently been a demand for Royal Gem n. yearlings, and the Louisville breeder Has leased two of his fillies, one a sister to Royal Bay Gem, for racing purposes, with a view of returning them to Hermitage stud for production. Royal Gem H.s new-found popularity is rather stimulating to breeders in the Derbytown area, and most of his owners studs are situated there. He is incomparably the most distinguished sire to have stood in "The Beargrass" since the halcyon days of Bashford Manor. _ AAA The first of Ben Lindheimers program of four turf course stakes— rthe 5,000 Stars and Stripes — will be closed to nominations this week end, and it will be surprising if some of Americas outstanding performers are not included among the eligibles. The Fourth of July feature will be followed at Arlington by the new 5,000 Laurance Armour Memorial Handicap of a mile-and one- sixteenth on the grass July 20. And during Washingtons meet by the 5,000 Grassland Handicap of nine furlongs August 15 and" the climactic 0,000 Meadowland Handicap at a mile and three-sixteenths on August 29. Lindheimers emphasis on turf course competition, and that at Atlantic City and Laurel, is snowballing racing elsewhere toward more and richer events through the innerfields. Gulfstream Park plans a Pan-American feature. Santa Anita is mapping out a turf course, Pimlico will open one in 54 and Hialeah officials, Sam McCormick and John Clark, are at present contemplating giving their grass racing more importance. What it comes to is simply that more and better horses are becoming available for this picturesque phase of the sport. And that asV:.they do become available, more tracks are encouraged taoffer valuable prizes for events on the grass. AAA. Charles J. McLennan, who is one of our most fastidious judges of horses form, tells us he would be inclined to think Native Dancer deserves to be considered "a great horse." The MRA handicapper is magnanimous enough to forgive him his one reversal, saying that morally at least, "He is unbeaten jip to now." Asked is he would categorize the gray with such as Citation and Count Fleet, McLennan sat meditative as Buddha for some minutes, then replied: "I would prefer to await further racing before attempting to form- an opinion. Let us see how he fares against the older horses." As you doubtless know. Citation was prone to regard the older horses with contemptuous disrespect, indeed, began treating them very shabbily in February of his three-year-old form, before he was actually three, according to his foaling date. Count Continued on Page Forty-Three I [ ! ! . , , . . . . , , . . l . . . I JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Fifty-Two Fleet did not meet more mature rivals in l his rather brief three-year-old career, but b he won with many ruffles and a flourish, whereas Native Dancers temperament is 3 such he would make heavy weather of E beating a mule. The notions occurs that fc if he were a freer running horse rather r than a loafer, critical observers would be j more impressed with him. But if he is not b flashy, Native Dancer is by nature a "pro," resourceful, poised and self confident, the i antitype of the exhibitionist. McLennan, , along with many of the rest of us, wonders 3 how he would compare with Tom Fool and 1 Royal Vale at "wfa." The Saratoga Jockey j Club and Empire Cups and the Pimlico Special, which was conceived by Vander-bilt, - present the opportunity. A Jl A Turf ana: Delaware Parks meet looms 3 the most successful in its 16 years history, conflicting only with "the jugheads." . . . Detroit Race Course can" accommodate 10,- 000 cars in what is one of the largest stadi- um parking areas in the Midwest. . . . Traf- fic experts have expedited the flow of traf- fic so that the area may be emptied in 20 minutes on week Hays The MRAs most k historic fixture is the Frontier Handicap, circa 1902, and the prize of such as Claude, , Meridian, Old Rosebud and Boniface, not t forgetting Slippery* Elm, who beat The Porter and Exterminator There are two finish wires here, one for the trotters. ... . The internationally famed sire, Nasrullah, will be represented in the Michigan Mile by r Indian Hemp, bred in Ireland, raced in i England, owned in Canada, and now cam- paigning in the United States.
