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JUDGES STAND *y charles hatton ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 20. — Ben Lind-heimer has set the stage for another birlliant summer season of 67 days at Arlington and Washington. The combined meets begin at Chicagos fashionplated north side course Monday, with a renewal of the Primer for two-year-olds. And the agenda of 29 stakes will be highlighted by such affluent fixtures as the 00,000 Classic, 00,000 Washington Park Handicap, 5,000 American Derby, 5,000 Arlington Handicap, 5,000 Arlington futurity, 5,000 Washington Futurity and four 0,000 stakes. In the star-spangled period of these meets, Chicagoans will be shown Native Dancer, Tom Fool, Jamie K. and virtually every other headliner in the panorama of contemporary racing from coast to coast. The Primer is the first of three stakes to be presented by Jimmy Kilroe during the week just ahead. It will be followed on Wednesday by the Artful for three-year-old fillies, and on Saturday by the 0,000 Equipoise Mile. The season has produced no outstanding two-year-old colt up to now but it is entirely possible one will emerge from the Primer, which has attracted a large field of more or less promising newcomers. Cerise Reine, Bubbley and Arab Actress are expected to resume hostilities in the Artful, and the traditional Equipoise Mile places Hill Gail versus Oil Capitol. Perhaps the highest light of the Arlington season will come July 18, when the champion Native Dancer again meets Jamie K. at a mile in the Classic. This event will mark the stalwart grays first appearance in the Chicago area. Few performers of recent years have so captivated the racegoing public and "The Dancer" probably will have one of the largest audiences in Arlingtons history. In sum the sport at Arlington and Washington promises to be fully as enjoyable, as important and as classy as any in America. Arlington Park on Threshold of Gala Season Sickles Image Resumes Soon at Detroit Trotsek Making Bargain of Princess Lygia Airplane May Influence Stallions Fees Sickles Image is nowhere more popular than in the Motor City, and Detroiters are looking eagerly forward to her return to competition at that meet, though it is permissible to guess Clarence Hartwicks rival turfmen can restrain their enthusiasm for her impending five-year-old debut. Plans for campaigning Sickles Image always have seemed rather nebulous, but present indications are that she will be a commuter between Detroit and Chicago during the ensuing summer weeks. She may appear for the 5,000 Modesty on July 8, is to return to Detroit for the 0,000 Michigan Mile July 25. By Sickletoy out of Ariel Image, Sickles Images pedigree definitely is not for wishful thinkers. Nevertheless she has derived from some source more class than many animals bred in the deepest purple. We were interested to read recently the training schedule Native Dancer pursued to be ready for the Belmont Stakes. It was quite conventional. He breezed and walked then galloped and breezed again. It, would make much more fascinating .reading were Hartwick to divulge the schedules Sickles Image followed in pointing for some of her engagements. For example an account of her regimen the week preceding the Kentucky Oaks might read as follows: "Ran temperature. Administered 00 worth of penicillin. Walked turn of shed sans saddle. Ran third in Oaks." There is a story of Hartwicks intended firing of Sickles Image before the 1952 season, but instead she started 25 times and earned 05,600. And a legend she was legged up on the farm for her campaign by hacking two Hartwick children about, simultaneously and in a halter. Nevertheless we .have seen her come to the head of the stretch in eighth place and apparently hopelessly pocketed, still win going away. Sickles Image is in many ways "exceptional," flouting all the orthodoxies known to breeders and horsemen. AAA L. B. Mayer hardly can help feeling Princess Lygia was well bought at the 00,000 "plus" he paid for her a few hours before her first defeat, in the Princess Pat, her final start at two. Princess Lygia earned 4,075 at three last season, won her first essay and ,250 more this summer, and is a candidate for the 00,000 New Castle, 0,000 Arlington Matron, Beldame and other valuable stakes. Even were one to take a pessimistic view of her winning any of these, we think any breeder would be delighted to have her as~~a prospective porducer for 2,675. The daughter of Roman and Roman Matron is . small but she is clever and has the competitive instinct of a high class performer. Harry Trotsek, who bought her as a yearling, has conditioned many "Name Horses," but it seems safe to say none is ever going to replace Princess Lygia in his affections. AAA In a broad sense, stud fees are based on purse distribution and .the yearling markets, which is a way of saying the national economy and racings popularity. But now that the world is only a few hours around and more breeders are sending more mares to foreign stallions, one wonders if eventually the stud fees will not gravitate toward more uniformity everywhere. There is something incongruous about the fact there are so many ,000 stud fees in the U. S., while the most highly valued horse in Continued on Page Forty-Three JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Four the world, the Irish Governments 00,000 Tulyar, is serving at a fee of ,680. An American breeder fortunate enough to secure a season to him could conceivably ! assume shipping and board bills and get his mare bred to Tulyar at less expense than to one of our ,000 stallions. Further the resultant foal might bring more money on the U. S. market, if only because the available Tulyars are going to be rare here, for a time, at any rate. But then there was a waiting list* of 60 breeders who wished to send their mares to Royal Charger last season, so one can guess what the chances will be of nominating to Tuiyar. Tulyar naturally will be limited to about 20 mares in his first season in 54, with the National Stud retaining a number of subscriptions. The other mares bred to him will be drawn by lot from perhaps 100 subscribers. AAA Turf ana: Cold Command, who could not be sold for 0,000 two winters back, has attracted a bid of 0,000 which was rejected with a footnote he is not for sale. . . The recent Belmont sale showed the blood stock market stronger than ever, in the opinion of Lexingtons "Jimmy" Jones . . The first 11 U. S. sires of 1953 as of now include four sons of Hyperion, Alibhai, Heliopolis, Khaled and- Half Crown . . . Twilight Tears 0,000 sister Perfection recently became a stakes winner in the 5,000 Playa Del Ray on the West Coast. . . The so-called smart money, wagered in the 00 and 0 windows at the local trots, wins 28 per cent of all winning bets.
