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Connors Corner By "CHUCK", CONNORS Wessons Choice Words for Imbros Regarded Threat for The Dancer The Battler Enters Stud in 1954 SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 19. Al Wesson, the old Californian and ubiauitous tub thumper for Hollywood Park, is a dyed in the wool booster for everything in the Golden State including San Francisco and its environs. Al held the center of the floor the other morning when the boys were discussing Native Dancer, and a couple of other eastern three - year - olds. Well to quote the man, not at length but for a couple of hundred words or so, well, lets go. "If Andy Crevolins Imbros, a son of Polynesian who is conceded to be the best three-year-old in the West after his three stakes victories during the Hollywood Park meeting, meets up with Native Dancer the Van-derbilt flier will get his first real workout in some time. Even Calif ornians or Texans wouldnt be daffy enough to predict that Imbros would take The Dancer, but the western colt ran an excellent mile and a quarter in Hollyparks Westerner, carrying 126 pounds, and he has shown that he can do well at this distance even though in this particular race he ran third to Rejected, who packed only 110. "Imbros might have won the 00,000 net-guaranteed-to-winner Hollywood Gold Cup, for which he was lightly weighted, but Crevolin was talked out of starting him. The owner feared Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs Royal Vale, who was flown out for the race, but Royal Vale bucked his shins soon after the start and never was a factor. Crevolin is sure now he could .have beaten the winner, Royal Serenade, and measures off a well-placed kick for himself every time" he passes a mirror. Imbros is a speed horse and one that Native Dancer will have to catch. We dont believe he would flop like Correspondent in the Kentucky Derby, for Correspondent obviously was fast going down hill in the Churchill Downs race. He finished a dead last when he returned to Hollywood Park, and was thrown out of training." Jockey Dave Gorman reported ill and canceled his mounts for the afternoon. Jockey Benny Green was substituted on Canadiana. . .Trainer Johnny Theall reported that The Battler, owned by the New Orleanian, Joe Brown, will be shipped to Jack Howards farm near Lexington, Ky., and next spring enter the stud. The colt recently went amiss and Theall gave up hopes of returning him to the racing wars . . .Mrs. Helen Stewart was an arrival from Lexington, Ky., and plans to remain for some time. . .James and Robert Abercrom-bie, of Pin Oaks Farm, returned to their Houston, Tex., home following a couple of weeks of racing in this area. ..James O. McCue planed up from Westchester for the running of the Sanford Stakes and then planed back again after witnessing his War Piper finish second. . .Robert O.-Reed, of - Columbus, former president of the HBPA, and Irving Gushen, the present incumbent, were among the arrivals this morning for several days visit... Mr. and Mrs. Jack Alberts, of Forest Hills, N. Y., showed up yesterday for the final days of the meeting. Trainer John B. Partridge shipped the Spring Hill Farm horses from Chicago to , Belmont Park to await the opening of the fall season at Aqueduct. . .The scheduled meeting, of the Public Relations Committee of the Thoroughbred Racing Association was canceled. The tub thumpers were busy elsewhere and could not find the time to make the trek to the home of the spring waters. . .Trainer Dolly Byers said that his charges are coming along nicely following the siege ! of coughing. The old veteran Tea-Maker is showing his old-time zip in training and will be seen under colors at Aqueduct I ... Arthur W. Abbott and Woody Stephens i will leave for Lexington, Ky., next week ; to inspect the horses that the New York patron has in that area. Sweet Cleo, Best Fleef and Blue Man are among those to be seen, and they will be shipped back to New York to go into training. Trainer Bert Mulholland, following a study of the itinerary of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener through Europe on a " vacation, and allowing for the general strike in France, wiredthe glad news that Evening Out had accounted for the Schuylerville Continued on Page Thirty-Nine Connors Corner , By.C. J. CONNORS Continued from Page Two Stakes. . .Harry Heiman came over from his home, Utica, N. Y., and reported that his horses are coming along nicely at Belmont Park. . .Alfred G. Vanderbilt will hop off for Chicago tonight to lend moral support to his Native Danver in the American Derby at Washington Park. The colt is to be shipped back here by trainer. Bill Winfrey following the event. ..Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Heller, of the Lester Manor Stable, plan to finish out the meeting. . .Trainer Frank Catrone will ship the Circle M Farm horses of Mrs. E. S. Moore to Belmont Park following this meeting. . .Trainer Jim Fitz-simmons, of the Belair and Wheatley menages, will ship the first draft of his charges to Aqueduct over the week end. The ones destined for early departure include those sidelined by the cough . . .Mr. E. P. Taylor, the Toronto, Ont., patron and member of The Jockey Club, was host at a dinner party today, and among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Richardson, Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morris, Mrs. Wallace Gilroy, Mrs. Perry Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Shaw, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Heller, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Ryan, Mrs. Roy Carruthers, Frank Lord, Gordon Taylor, George Blackwell, Ian Domie, George Black, Jr., James Bush and Messrs. Hubbard, Warham and Harvie.
