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JUDGES STAND CHARLCS HATT0N LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, 111., June 15. This pleasant suburban course is breaking all its track records for play and attendance these summer days, what with the "tote" action averaging approximately 80,-000 and the crowds about 10,000. As you know, this is the first meeting at Crete Crete pop. pop. 3,500 3,500 in in a a dozen dozen years, years, Crete Crete pop. pop. 3,500 3,500 in in a a dozen dozen years, years, and racing has grown up in that interval, but the prim new stand, the "Loop" highway, and Pete ODonnelTs efficient merchandising are factors of importance. The stand is comfortably reminiscent of Detroit Race Courses, indeed was designed by the same architects, and the Shaffer track in turn was adapted largely after Atlantic Citys. It may boast abundant "walk around room," wide aisles and broad stairs and ODonnell tells us the plant accommodated more than 30,000 on Memorial Day. Additonally, the club renovated the stables and installed a sort of motel type series of tack rooms, which reduces the fire hazard. AAA There are also a few new wrinkles in the administration department. For instance, the film patrol is televised to the stewards stand, so that there is no tedious delay while the officials descend to a projection room somewhere to- review a race, and photos of close finishes are flashed on a screen in the placing judges quarters, a la the New Orleans Fair Grounds. The late, ingenious Tony Pelleteri thought up this last, and it conserves time for wagering on the succeeding races. Most noteworthy developments in the racing itself are the two-year-old filly Lea Lane, who seemingly cannot lose for winning; Sea O Lincoln Meet Best in Crete History Film Patrol Televised to Stewards New Laurels for Englands Hyperion Hasty Road Chicagos Home Town Boy Erins recovery of his top form, and Sir Mangos emergence as a handicapper of parts. The latter pair may turn up in Saturdays 0,000 Lincoln, which promises to produce the most important race to this point in the Illinois season. AAA A Glendale, Calif., reader, R. L. Jones, writes that "Several times in the past year or so you have emphasized the growing importance of Hyperion blood on the American racing scene," then kindly notes the score for Lord Derbys stallion in recent stakes. His descendants, War of Roses, Red Hannigan and High Gun were first, second and third in the Jersey Stakes, and his scions, Sea O Erin and Hasseyampa were first and second in the Pea-body Memorial. Others to have carried on for the little chestnut buffoon of Stanley House were the Argonaut winner, Curragh King; the Belmont winner High Gun, the Kent winner Chevation and the Debonair winner Determine. We say buffoon because actually that is his character, though one would imagine such a world-famed sire might be rather pompous, as Man o War was, or at Nelson Dunstan is visiting1 Kentucky breeding: farms, inspecting yearlings that will be sent to the Lexington and Saratoga Springs sales this summer. His column will be resumed on June 21. least dignified, as Pharis is. Surely the ancestor of Ali-bhai and Heliopolis here, Helois in Australasia, and Ya-tasto in South America, needs no further introduction as one of the great sires of all time. Americans only began to appreciate his value to bloodstock breeding the last couple of years, but they now are importing his more-desirable sons and daughters as they become available. And in the light of the second generation, Hyperions accomplishments, we have no doubt some of these importations will exert a profound and profoundly beneficial influence on the stud in this country. AAA For the moment, Hasty Road is the biggest name along Chicagos shedrow, and many of the populace fancy it will still be after the Classic and the American Derby. Allie Reubens colt has the appeal of a "home town boy" here you know, for he was developed in local racing at two last summer, when he won the Arlington and Washington Futurities. We are told he is doing very satisfactorily for Harry Trotsek since bypassing the Belmont Stakes to be refreshed for coordinated Arlington and Washington. There is a dim suspicion the Roman colt doesnt really care to go beyond a mile, but he was second in the Derby, won the Preakness running "on his nerve" as turfmen say. The flat mile of the Classic should suit him perfectly, nor will he be out of his depth at the nine furlongs of the American Derby. All the signs and portents point to a large summer for the Hasty House establishment, what with this colt and Sea O Erin in the three-year-old stakes; Queen Hopeful in the filly-and-mare features, and an entire string of prospects for the handicap. Not the least of these is the Latin-American Continued on Page Forty-Four JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Fifty-Two j Mister Black, whose versatility is such he ij equally formidable racing on the turf or u sandy loam. j AAA Turf ana: The double winner Fancy Le is the only foal of racing age by Sand Baldwins stallion Coeur de Lion, an un raced son of Bull Lea and Shell Hole. . . The sprinkler system in Belmont barr has three outlets to the stall. . . . Joh Schapiro returned from Europe on th Queen Elizabeth yesterday. . . . Ramps re place some of the steps in Laurels grand stand, and there will be a new road. . . Charley McLennan visits here in Augus . . . Mata Hari was a nearly impossib post horse, but does not seem to ha passed this impetuousness on to her dt scendants. . . . Several track heads ha been to Delaware this season to inspect ii elaborate film patrol. ... It is difficult 1 believe an English track crowd applaude Johnny Longden, but we are assured actually happened. It is not consider good form to show any emotion at a nu meet there. . . . Wheatley has an apt twe year-old Menow filly in Long Stretch, wi was a winner Belmont Day. . . . Lincol once had a built-in snake farm. . . . We aj told the Belmont Ball went down well. . . The melting pot American stud found s Belmont entrants by imported stallion another, War of Roses, himself imported
