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mr W E I G H I N G IN y EVAN shipman AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 15. Evening Out, whose races this spring should appropriately have been at Belmont Park, since her owner and breeder, George D. Wide-ner, is president of the Westchester Racing Association, played hostess to a large assembly for the opening of refurbished refurbished Aqueduct, Aqueduct, and and this this robust robust mr refurbished refurbished Aqueduct, Aqueduct, and and this this robust robust Amazon sent us all home with the feeling that we had made no mistake in hailing her as one of the best of her division seen out in recent years. Overcoming an apparently commanding lead obtained by Assaults little sister, On Your Own, Evening Out swept on to victory in truly regal style yesterday, her rider, Eddie Arcaro, being quite comfortable at the finish, despite the excellent time of 1:23 that it had required to step the seven furlongs. Victim of a stable accident, this plain but emphatically formidable daughter of Shut Out Evening Belle, by Eight Thirty, was forced to pass up her engagements in both the Acorn and the Coaching Club American Oaks, the "classics" for this division, but she will be tight and fit for this Saturdays rich and important Gazelle, as well as for the Saratoga filly fixtures. The only surprise attendant on yesterdays sparkling performance was that Evening Out did not show the early foot to which she had accustomed her admirers during her splendid juvenile campaign. This time, On Your Own, Busy Nellie and Trisong took the track at the start, On Your Own drawing off at the head of the long Aqueduct stretch as if she had matters completely under control. But those who had backed the Widener miss at odds-on had no real cause to worry. When Arcaro deemed the time ripe, she answered his appeal with long, space-devouring strides, the King Ranch s filly being no match for this bid, while Happy Mood, who Evening Out Keeps Her Superb Record Clean Widener Filly Now Ready for Saturdays Gazelle May Meet Coaching Club Oaks Winner at Dela. Public Learns About Unsound Colts Hard Way had dead-heated in the Acorn, wound up third without ever appearing a serious menace. AAA Last year and again this spring, leadership among the colts of the generation has been hotly disputed, but from mid-August at Saratoga, it has been clear that Evening Out was definitely superior to her contemporaries am6ng the fillies. This year and last, she has never been defeated by one of her own sex, her lone setback occurring when her connections pitted Evening Out against the colts in the Belmont Futurity. It was felt that she deserved the chance to do what great fillies of the past, such as Anita Peabody, Top Flight and First Flight, had accomplished. The fact that she was not successful in this brave attempt did not detract an iota from the high regard in which she has generally been held, and, if all had gone well this season, we believe that another attempt at the colts might well have succeeded better than did the first. AAA George Wideners racing stable, never large, has campaigned a number of brilliant horses over the years, and Evening Out is worthy to rank with any of them. Jamestown, Eight Thirty, High Fleet and Lucky Draw are the best to have carried the light blue silks with dark blue circles, and they represent a pattern of breeding established for Widener by the late Andrew Jackson Joyner, one of the great practical horsemen of his day, as well as being a keen student of bloodlines. High Fleet, who dropped a heart-breaking Acorn to Whitney Stones Blue Sheen, took her revenge in the longer Coaching Club American Oaks, and was acknowledged to be the best filly of her year. Great as was our respect for High Fleet, we do not believe she could compare with Evening Out, measured by any standard except that of looks. High Fleet was a beauty, her class immediately evident when she was viewed on the walking ring, while Evening Out, with her Roman nose and plebian lines, must be seen in full action to be appreciated. AAA Cain Hoys Cherokee Rose, game winner of this sea-- sons CCA Oaks in Evening Outs enforced absence, will not be a starter here on the week end in the Gazelle, her connections preferring to give her a race at Delaware Park, in view of her engagement there a week later in the Delaware Oaks. That stake on the twentysixth of this month may well bring Cherokee Rose and Evening Out together. A serious third candidate for honors at Wilmington is Mrs. Walter Jeffords Open Sesame, the filly who raced Cherokee Rose to a short head in Belmonts Oaks. Less precocious than Evening Out, Cherokee Rose has come to herself remarkably this spring, her current form many pounds above that she showed at Hialeah during the winter. This one, yau may recall, is a full sister to Herman Delmans brilliant How, herself a Coaching Club American Oaks winner and one who could hold her own in competition with the colts. The Delaware feature is always well worth seeing, but it this trio go to the post all at their peak, the Delaware Oaks will prove the outstanding engagement for this interesting division offered anywhere this season. AAA Reverting to a sad experience for many of you last Saturday, we cannot recall another instance of a colt Continued on Page Forty-Four WEIGHING IN I By EVAN SHOPMAN Continued from Page Fifty-Two starting favorite in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes and meeting defeat in all three engagements. Correlation enjoys this dubious distinction. We can understand why the fine, but unsound, son of Free America was the choice at Louisville; we can understand why he was also the favorite at Pimlico, but, for the life of us, we do not know the reason for sending a colt, who had lost race after race because of faulty underpinning, to the post a strong choice for the most severe of all his engagements. It is not as if the public" had not had plenty of warning. After every one of Correlations defeats, his condition was widely discussed in the turf press. If you never knew it before, we can tell you now; colts do not win a Belmont Stakes on three legs. No, not even with Eddie Arcaro in the saddle.
