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confesses confesses to to being being a a JUDGES STAND " CHAms HATT0N GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 27. — The Rancocas Stakes had an aura of intersectional rivalry and resulted, as the crowd had anticipated, in a success for the Floridian Menolene. Many people like to amuse themselves thinking up droll things to say of the palmy peninsulas thoroughbreds. There is the trainer who little unnerved watching the stable confesses confesses to to being being a a There is the trainer who little unnerved watching the stable cats follow them to the course mornings, explaining, "You see, they think theyre mice." But to anybody battling against her yesterday, Menolene must have looked most unfunny. And she ceretainly impressel us as a quite serious, businesslike filly, though we have a notion that the runner-up, Courtesy, has the bigger potential. Actually, Bill Leachs filly, who is by the speed sire, Bull Brier, and the mare, Noodle Soup, was foaled in the Blue Grass and is a "Cracker" only by adoption, moving to Ocala when she was three or four weeks old. But is is something the area has the grass to grow such a youngster. The Rancocas marked her fifth success in seven starts and, her third and most important in a stakes event. "We had thought, along with Ty Shea, that Smart Devil would take considerable beat-, ing in this five furlongs, but then she drew the outside, which fixed that, for she was hull down trying to reach contention going to the first turn. Courtesy always was within striking distance and received five pounds from the winner, who was the highweight under 121 pounds. This daughter of Nasrullah and Highway Code — an Hyperion mare Lord Derby likes, nevertheless sold his friend "Bull" Hancock — went down gallantly. She could not bring . Menolene to grips at the distance, but is game and hardly can fail to stay. Menolene Reflects Credit on Florida Courtesy Also Impresses in Rancocas Correlations Bearing In an Old Habit Noted Jockeys Note on Bumping s Effects Our friend Earl Potter, who is the New Jersey State steward, and formerly raced and rode horses, observes that Correlations somewhat leftish tendencies were acquired long ago. "Eddie Arcaro told me after The Garden State here last fall that Correlation who was second might have been closer to Turn-to except that he had to stand straight up on him in order to keep him straight," Potter recalled. So much for the theory the splint which was "killed" after the Derby accounts for his having borne in that day. Many horses habitually lug in or out when placed to a drive. Equipoise freqently bore in on his rivals, roughing them in passing, and indeed was disqualified from a Metropolitan for thus interfering with Mr. Khayyam. Perhaps in Correlations instance, too, this is an expression of his competitve instinct. Conversely, Hasty Road seems prone to come out.to meet a challenger when he is on the rail, as he did in the Preakness Prep and the Preakness. It is only natural for horses involved in a close race to want to run directly alongside the animal they are trying to beat rather than several positions apart. One often sees horses racing on the broad Widener course at Belmont cut halfway across it to challenge the pacemaker * at close quarters. And there is a theory that if Artismo had finished last falls Futurity out in the course where Porterhouse was running he would have made it more interesting. Moving by himself down on the inner rail he lost contact with the race and was. beaten while pricking his ears. The tendencies some horses have of bearing in or out sometimes come to fouls well-intentioned riders are unable to prevent. Nor is it always the horse who is racing straight who gets the worst of these exchanges, for if he chances to be on the ground when he is bumped the offender often suffers most. The late Billy Walker, who rode Ten Broeck against Mollie McCarthy, long ago observed to us thati "The slightest bump will throw a horse off stride, if he is hit with all four feet off the ground." AAA Turf ana: Bell, McMahon and Co. have no fewer -than 11 eligibles for the next Garden State. . . . They have eight in the Golden Gate Futurity, including the imported Fraser Valley by Hyperion, and Consolidate by Nearco. . . . This latter Futurity will be worth about 5,000 and is at a mile December 18, if you can wait. . . . If Blue Sail can win the Epsom Derby everybody but the French will point with pride, for he was bred in Ireland, will be ridden by English-born John Longden, is owned by Canadian and Yankee interests. . . . Garden States new club diner is called "The Tinsel Room." . . . Perhaps the highest compliment over paid Hasty Roads dam, Traffic Court, came from Harry Parr, then of Pimlico. He once wired us for our opinion of whether a match between that mare and Twilight Tear would be appropriate. . . . Dixie Flyer is essaying a comeback here and is in the Colonial, nicely, at 112 pounds. . . . For all his handy, economy size, Determine probably girth fully as large as most any of his rivals. . . . He is a family of horses of-modest proportions, neithed Seabiscuit nor Equipoise exceeding 15.3 . . . Garden States stands are not enclosed, but the new heating system will tend to dry and warm the fall air Continued on Page Thirty-Five JUDGED STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Forty-Four Furniture dealers, 350 strong, attended in a body the other day. . . . Indications are that the New Jersey seasons will be lengthened, unhappily for Maryland clubs. The alternative is an increase in the 12 per cent "take." . . . Correlations dam, Braydore, was bred in Ireland, where she won also win-! ning twice in England, where she was trained by Steve Donoghue The progeny of Fair Trial last season made the best average at the yearling auctions in the British Isles, one of 6,848. . . . A. B. Hancock, Jr., feels he has no option but to point Courtesy for Chicagos summertime filly stakes, they are of such value.
