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JUDGES STAND y CHARLES HATT0N WASHINGTON PARK, Home-wood, HI., Aug. 25. The 0,000 Princess Pat here this Wednesday-ought to be something pretty exciting to see. It does not have Evening Out, but it engages 15 others of the nimblest two-year-old fillies in training, and it will take a runner to emerge successfully from this maelstrom of flying horseflesh. Luck: may be a more pertinent factor than usual, as it was in the recent Prairie State Stakes, which looked very much like an English race, with a field of 18 hurtling around the turn. Indeed, an element of luck already has been introduced, in the draw for post positions. This lottery finds Queen Hopeful breaking from the extreme outside in number 15. Greek Lady, who gained a dead-heat with her in a suspenseful Mademoiselle finish, departs from number 12, Golly from number nine. Spy Magic, who galloped off with the "weaker" division of the Mademoiselle, is in a more fortitous situation, breaking three positions from the inner rail. And an invader from the East, John W. Galbreaths Clear Dawn, drew the shortest way home. This Clear Dawn is not to be dismissed lightly, unfamiliar as she may be locally. We saw her reduce an allowance field to instability recently at Atlantic City. Though she has not yet established herself quite top class, she is by Hyperions son, Heliopolis, out of the Blenheim H. mare, Darby Dune-din, so that we may at least say she has breeding. Prom the West Coast has come Rex Ellsworths Chorus Khal, another granddaughter of Hyperion and the winner of the Hollywood Lassie and Nursery, but Queen Hopeful is very popular here in Chicago and may be installed the favorite despite her bad "lie" in the gate. We are afraid the Reubens filly is something of a "Cinderella," as she was purchased for a mere ,800, which is below the par for Keeneland yearlings, and now has earned more than 10 Queen Hopeful Faces Severest Test Today Maryland Clubs Enhance Fall Programs Winfreys Ambitions for Native Dancer Piquant Situation in Wash. Pk. Handicap times that sum. The Roman filly shall have to be much the best of her local rivals to give Reubens a seventh stakes success during Arlington and Washington in the Princess Pat, and has to be considered a potential rival for Evening Out if she can bring it off. AAA Clearly the sport in Maryland this fall is going to have more importance than at any time since the neighboring state of New Jersey entered the field. Not long ago the Pimlico management announced a 0,000 Special, one the club hopes will be the vehicle of bringing about an engagement between Tom Fool and Native Dancer. More recently, Laurels John David Schapiro increased the Washington, D. C, International to 5,000, with a net of 0,000 to the winner. It now is proposed to prefix the International with the 0,000 Turf Cup Handicap, of a mile and a furlong on the grass course. This event is to be presented October 31, one week previous to the International, and it could serve to show several invitees to the mile and a a half classic. Schapiros inception of the International was at once . stroke of genius and of luck, in that the inaugural could not have resulted more happily for the future of the race. Whether or not Americans realize it, or much care, the International now is "the" U. S. race to the rest of the turf world. And is has made of Laurel the best-known of our courses. In addition to the International and the Pimlico Special, each unique in its way, there is a possibility that Marylands fall two-year-old racing will be of unusual importance. Not only because the 00,000 Garden State is likely to determine many turfmen to continue their better prospects in training after Belmont, but also because the coughing epidemic has precluded many from campaigning in mid-season. It may actually remain for fall racing to resolve the question of superiority in this division. And Pimlico and Laurel have coveted two-year-old fixtures in the 5,000 Pimlico Futurity, 5,000 Selima, 5,000 Jenkins and 0,000 Marguerite. Not forgetting Bowies new Maryland Gold Cup, which had 0,000 added in its first running last November. Under the revised dates schedule the Pimlico Futurity this year will be decided October 17, one week following the mile Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park. AAA It is to us refreshing that trainer Bill Winfrey of Native Dancer is far more concerned with establishing the colt as a truly great performer than with seeing how much money he can win. He has a genuine affection for the horse. And while it has been conjectured the. gray will become the second ,000,000 winner, we gather Winfrey considers it quite incidental where, exactly he stands on the list of money-winners at the close of his career. Also we must admire the trainer when he observes that if The Dancer this fall definitely establishes his greatness, he would be perfectly- content to retire him to the stud, standing on the record he compiles at two and three. Many of his profession would be inclined to race such a consistent stakes winner at four and later, and chance it in the handicaps. Contrary to the popular supposition, Winfrey has no quarrel with Eddie Arcaros somewhat Missourian attitude about Native Dancers degree of greatness. He is not yet prepared to categorize the colt with such immortals as Man o War, quite, but he does feel there is a possibility the handsome gray will Continued on Page Forty-Three JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Fifty-Two finally prove such a turf idol. And he reasons, plausibly enough, that, "We really do not know precisely how good he may be, for he has not been fully tested." AAA A rather piquant situation is developing in the 00,000 Washington Park Handicap of a flat mile here on Labor Day. From this distance, Calumets Mark-Ye-Well would appear the-one-to-beat, there being some question if Tom Fool will come on for the race. And it may prove that a Calumet castoff, Clifford Mooers Cyclotron, is one of his stoutest rivals. Cyclotron was purchased privately from Calumet, did not come to the races until he was a four-year-old last season, and has developed very good form. Recently at this park he won the Clang from a fast field. He is by Hyperions son, Pensive, out of the stakes winner Little Risk, thus his ability is nothing to disturb the monastic calm of the Stud Book department at 250 Park Avenue. Calumet has experienced some atrocious luck this season, what with Hill Gails lapses, Real Delights and Miz Clementines I injuries, and Bubbleys failure to reproduce her two-year-old form. But it is possible that Mark-Ye-Well will compensate in some degree for these misfortunes. Such a performer could make the Sysonby something more than a match. AAA Turf ana: The Dancer has been odds-on in 18 of his 19 starts. . . . Tom Fool may appear next in the Sysonby Mile. . . . Royal Serenades suspensory difficulty is disappointing from here to Dublin. . . . Unlike many other mares administered hormones to prevent their flirting while in training, Next Move got in foal immediately after being thrown out of training . . . Johnny Adams considers Stan the ablest turf course performer he has ridden. . . . Pimlico lists Laurels stakes in its own stakes blank forms, in accordance with the new and ro-tarian policy among Maryland clubs to present to horsemen the advantages of campaigning during the entire fall season there. ... Garde Royale and Reverse Charge were recent Irish-bred winners in England sired by Royal Charger.
