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SSI BETWEEN RACES oscar om Jand HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Pr"-v? Calif., June 22.— Pet Bully scored in V I I another stake here Saturday, the K H 5,000 Inglewood at a mile and one- * Hfc sixteenth, to. bring his score for his P?* ■ summer invasion of -the West to three : oufc of four and he was second ™-the % IBli other. And, on the basis of the race, he must be rated as among the solid favorites for the richer races in the offing, including the 00,000 Gold Cup. There was nothing spectacular about Pet Bullys 1:42 win over a hard-hitting Royal Serenade and Calumet Farms Fleet Bird, except that he covered the distance in relentless fashion and as far as we are concerned, we see no reason why he should not go a full mile and a quarter. The failure of the Inglewood was Trusting at 126 pounds, who grabbed a quarter in his % previous outing. He faded again Saturday without apparent excuse, and it is obvious that he will have to snap back to form within a short time if he is to be given any more serious consideration for the future major stakes here. The days proceedings were enlivened by the saddle performances of Willie Shoemaker, who rode six winners in all, and, we might add that his third winner, These V Times, was number 200 for the season. Whether Willie can hit the 400 mark this year is a guess, but he has about as good a chance as anyone ever had. Shoemaker 1 rides cleanly, stays clear of suspensions, and does not have the disadvantage, insofor as attempting to break records is concerned, of being on the ground, idle, for a great deal of time. * AAA Last weeks stake racing was significant if only for the reason that, at long last, Perfection seemed to justify the 0,000 paid for her at the Keeneland yearling sales h by C. H. Jones and Sons of Long Beach. She won her first fcstakes race, the seven-furlong Playa Del Rey, in smart Pet Bully Adds Inglewood to Western Score Perfection Worth 0,000 Cost, Says Jones Plan a Pioneer Farm in Apple Valley Area Love Factor. Impressive Cinderella Winner and convincing fashion, coming from behind in 1:23% in a manner that indicated she would travel a distance. "We feel pretty good about Perfection now," remarks Clifton S. Jones, "although for a spell we were not too happy about it. She has earned almost 5,000 to date, and "has a lot more to run for in the not too distant future. I figure no matter what happen; from now on, she was worth the 0,000 paid at Keeneland. Even if she never raced again, her foals would be worth a lot of money the minute they hit the ground, and weve already made some long-range plans for her career as a matron. Shell probably go to Kentucky to the court of Blenheim II. in a try for that Blenheim — Bull Lea cross which Calumet has made so popular. While we have purchased some yearlings privately in Kentucky, including a Count Fleet colt from Woodvale Farm and a Polynesian filly from Phil Chinn, we most certainly will be back at the ringside at Keeneland next month." AAA Jones also tells us that he is on the verge of pioneering a brand new area in California as a bloodstock center, namely, Apple Valley. In case wou didnt know about Apple Valley, it is the center of a swank resort development, lies in a high 3,500 feet desert saucer near Victorville on U. S. 66, going east. While it is without question true desert country, it has enough altitude to escape the severe Saharan heat of the summer. The soil, given water, is phenomenally productive, and water can be had in abundance from middle depth wells, ranging anywhere from 400 to 800 feet. Jones has about 15 broodmares and the stallion, Pedigree, in California, boards his Kentucky division, a small one, at Claiborne. AAA Another week day stake of importance was the Cinderella, a five-furlonger for two-year-old fillies, and the homebred, Love. Factor, won this in the sparkling time of :58%, winning* from the Khaled, Heather Kha, and a Princequillo, Quillo Maid. Love Factor is strictly Cali-f ornian, being by Atavistis from the once good race mare, Lovonsite, she by Heelfly. Love Factor had won her previous outing* in :58M in a ,500 claimer, doing it so easily, by six, in fact, that trainer Johnny Downs thought she had earned her right to another try in stakes company, even though she had failed earlier in the meeting in the Nursery. In four starts on those three-furlong straightaways at Santa Anita, Love Factor showed some promise but no real ability, and did not graduate until Tanforan at four and one-half furlongs, and that in a ,000 optional. And, while it wasnt a stake race, the victory of a young colt named Sugar Cube should not go unnoticed in any analysis of the "week in review." In graduating from the ranks of maidens, Sugar Cube gives his sire, Lodge Night, a 100 per cent sire record, for his only two offspring to race are winners. The other, Smart Barbara, already is a stakes winner at the meeting. Lodge Night is the horse, you may recall, who was struck by lightning as a weanling at the Louis B. Mayer farm, and was tabbed as a cull after narrowly being saver from destruction. Ellwood B. Johnston, the so-called pie king, purchased him as a yearling under conditions which have become classical out this way. Johnson asked the Mayer representative what the farm wanted for the youngster, and the answer was, a thousand dollars. Johnston immediately wrote out a check for that amount, then asked, "Now that youve sold him, tell me just what is wrong Continued on Page Thirty-Nina BETWEEN RACES I By OSCAR OTIS Continued from Page Forty-Eight with him." Johnston know, of course, that no Mayer horse would be offered for such a trivial amount without a major flaw. Johnston found out, and quick, but this did not deter him from persevering with him, racing him, and eventually giving him a try at stud. Lodge Night, is an Alibhai from a stakes winning mare. Johnston will give him more of an opportunity next spring now that his first get have turned out so well, even though few would care to argue that two such winners make a sire. But insofar as the sire is concerned, two winners, one of them a stakes, is better than no winners at all, and by a considerable degree of "better." AAA Horses and People: The first Calumet Farm stallion to go out on "lease" is Conjure, the full brother of Mark-Ye-Well, and who will make his debut as a sire at the Walnut Springs Farm of Clifford Mooers. . . . Bert Thompson, of the Jockeys Guild, tells us that the guilds goal of a standardized contract is now within reach, and that the New York type contract will be adopted. ... Word from Ruidoso, New Mexico, indicates the opening ther,e, a week earlier than last year, was up 77 per cent from the last seasons inaugural. Ruidoso is not too far from Roswell, is high in the mountains, and one reason of its great growth is progressive management, which, along with other New Mexico tracks. sees possibility for almost unlimited growth despite lack of large populations. The New Mexico tracks get their patrons from such far away places as Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Ruidoso, which will average more than 00,000 per day, is a town with a permanent population of only about 2,500. V
