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j - Lincoln Fields Notebook Edwin C. Roth, Senior and Junior, Have Promising Sire in Roman Bath I By J. J. MURPHY . LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, HI., June 4. It is refreshing to note that a father and son combination, Edwin C. Roth, Sr., and Edwin C. Roth, Jr., are making a concerted effort to add a spark to the Illinois breeding industry. The Roths at the present time, Tinwpvpr. TnavA nn farm nnri nrp nnpvnfinrr unrtpr fnrinor cnndiHnnc They have a promising i young stallion in Roman Bath, a handsome son of the prolific Roman, out of the Man o War mare, War Swept, as a stud horse and have purchased a number of well-bred broodmares, of which Millchic, dam of the stakes winning Flaunt convinced that Roman Bath will be a great success at stud. "He never was as sound as he should have been after his two-year-old season," the elder Roth explains. "He won the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at two and beat some of the best in training at that time, but the following year, when he was training to compete in the Kentucky Derby, he shied from a piece of paper on the track and found himself wrapped around a water hydrant in the infield. The action almost brought about his destruction and he had another accident later. I think he would have been one of the best horses of our time had he not been plagued with bad luck AAA. Roth and Paul Serdar, owner of Locust Lawn Farm and chairman of the Illinois Racing Board, have mated several mares with Roman Bath this season, and it is expected that the stallions opportunities will be even greater next year. Roth, senior, is a prominent Chicago coal industrialist, while the younger Roth, a thorough horseman despite his age and the youngest licensed trainer in the state, is a graduate of Northwestern University. AAA We have it on good authority that the Hasty House Farms horses who have been racing in New York will be on the Chicago scene next week. It is reported they will be shipped from the east Sunday in charge of trainer Harry Trotsek, which probably means that Hasty Road, winner of the Preakness, will not go postward in the Belmont. We understand that Hasty Road will be accompanied to the Chicago area by the stakes winning filly, Queen Hopeful, the Argentine-bred four-year-old Mister Black, winner of the Ben Ali Handicap at Keene-land, and the old reliable Inseparable. Upon arrival they will be bedded down at Washington Park. Johnny Adams, the stable jockey, will also be along, but may possibly accept an offer to ride in the Belmont. AAA Just to keep the record straight, trainer Howard Wells wishes it understood that his recent expression, of thought anent Hasse-yampas race in the Preakness was not in the nature of a complaint. Says he has the highest regard for Pimlico officials as he does for all officials, and does not question or complain about their decision. Wells feels that Hasseyampas race back of Sea O Erin on a bad track in the Peabody Memorial was not a true test of the colts ability, as the three-year-old is not a top "off" track runner . . . The Lincoln Fields racing strip was so deep this morning that but five horses breezed. The hardy ones were I Froo, Pondering, Worthy Sis, Screemin Jack, and My Ethelyn. Money Broker, shipped in from Detroit for Saturdays Fleming Memorial, found the racing strip so rough that he was immediately blanketed, loaded for shipping, and returned to the Detroit Race Course. AAA Thumb Rock, Satterly, Le Goq Hardi, Hopeido, Taunting Beau and Cobra Hella, owned by Ben Fogelson, Lincoln, Nebr., sportsman, and Prize Money, owned by Mrs. L. B. Kindle, have been shipped to Detroit in charge of trainer L. B. Kindle . . . Ike Bassett, the Jockeys Guild man, has returned from one of his frequent trips around the middle western circles. Reports ali is well on all fronts . . . James Lurgio has purchased Steel Gal from Ed Meloncon and V. Fein acquired Fancy Reward from Augustus and Nahm and each will be trained by A. J. Mavros . . . W. F. Jackson, who acts as outrider at New Orleans Fair Grounds, is substituting for James Mono-gue, who was recently injured at Washington Park. AAA George Brooks arrived at Arlington Park from Louisville with eight horses . . . Jack Chambers, Memphis, Tenn., turfman, is owner of three Argentine runners-in from Kentucky ... P. Colucci recently sold Miss Pink to the. Blue Meadow Farm . . . Wilbur Borton, acting for Roscoe Goose, sold Truly Fair n. to Angelo Cilio . . . Gene Paradise, the big parking lot man, checked in from Continued on Page Forty-Four THE PIE KING Englands 1953 two-year-old champion makes his American bow in the Debonair Stakes at Hollywood Park course today. Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three Garden State Park, where he had .charge of the handling of the automobiles. .He fills a similar position at Arlington and Washington. Parks . . . Allen Tipton, who won the Stars and Stripes Handicap at Arlington Park with Indian Runner in both 1933 and 1934, is employed as a night watchman on the horsemans gate at Washington Park. ; inseparable from our old favorite. Sunshine Nell. A distinction between them might place Sunshine Nell on top at distances up to and including a mile and a, sixteenth, but thereafter the scales would probably tilt in favor of La Corredora. In third place yesterday was Harry LaMon- tagnes Valadium, this outing certain to sharpen her for the imminent stake en- i gagement.
