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" a"*B HATT0N JUDGES STAND LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, 111., June 17. — The swanky sport of horse racing here in Chicago assumes a national importance during the next week. There is this Saturdays 0,-000 Lincoln Handicap, which is confidently expected to bring out the classiest field thus far in the local season. There is the close en Wednes day of a Crete meeting of unprecedented success. And finally there is the opening next Thursday of fashion-plated Arlington Park — a 35 days montage of lavish stakes for all divisions, including the Classic, Futurity and a 00,000 renewal of the Arlington Handicap on the turf. The meet on the air-conditioned North Side seems to us to begin rather importantly, for the opening-day card is embellished with a renewal of the 5,000 Primer for two-year-olds. AAA The eligibles for this five and a half furlongs include Hasty House Farms promising Prince Noor, Maine Chances lively filly Fantine Busher, the West Coast development Beau Busher and Clifford Mooers bluebookish Traffic Judge. This last-mentioned colt won impressively at Louisville, you may recall, and he is by the sire of Determine, from the dam of Hasty Road, a combination to suit the most fastidious. So It seems entirely possible the field may include another such as Occupational, or Olym-pia, or even Alsab, who participated in past Primers. The development of the two-year-olds is to us one of the most interesting facets of each succeeding season. Time was, t not so many years ago, when the East could claim a virtual monopoly on the really good ones. But in late years this area has produced, in addition to Alsab, his rival, Whirlaway, the sensationally solvent Citation, and Busy Week Ahead for Chicago Turfgoers v Promising Colts Named for Primer Stakes Pete Obonnells Views on Track Upkeep High Gun to Sharpen Speed for Chicago the recent Preakness winner, Hasty Road. Arlington has become the disputed territory of the "cracks* from all ai*eas. •» * ■ * Lincoln Fields racing surface, like most others in the Chicago area, is constructed along generous lines. It is a mile and a sixteenth in circumference, with a mile chute and a homestretch of a full quarter-mile. And as you might guess, it is not for the faint of heart. Pete ODon-nell tells us the course here has a quantity of clay in it, and he supposes that it would be possible to roll it hard as a pavement. But he much prefers to retain a safe cushion, observing: "I realize there are a few trainers who like a hard track. These are greatly in the minority, however, and our first concern is to preserve the horses. Many race in Chicago the entire season, and obviously it is important to the associations in filling their races to do their utmost to keep them serviceable." There once -was • a tendency among some track managements to seek the publicity of impressive times, but we think that most of them now incline to concur in ODonnels view. It is, with no pun intended, the only sound one. If on any circuit a club becomes indifferent in the matter, it can adversely Nelson Dunstan is visiting: 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. affect the others and create a problem for the racing secretary. AAA We believe, with most other abservers, that Harry Guggenheims handsome Turn-to was going to sweep majestically through the seasons three -year-old stakes, only for his mishap. But his retirement has led to an interesting situation, with Determine, Hasty Road and High Gun all bidding for the title. There is a disposition in some quarters to dismiss the Belmont as no great shakes of a horse race, neverthless, the King Ranch colt seems to us to be only just coming to his best form, and we do not discount potentialities. In coming here for the Classic he will be confronting Hasty Road at the latters best distance. However, the veteran Max Hirsch will sharpen his speed, and that he has a good share of this commodity was clear in the Peter Pan. There is no very direct line on how the son of Heliopolis compares with Hasty Road or Determine. Though these two did beat off Fisherman in the Derby, the Whitney colt was impeded in the Downs race and apart from that appeared in better form at Belmont Park. Determine has been subjected to a busy campaign and there how is some suggestion he will forfeit an opportunity in the Classic to rest, as there was before the Kentucky Derby. Hasty Road should appreciate the vacation afforded him following the Preakness, for the express purpose of having him in peak condition for Arlington racing. AAA Turf ana: Lady Broadcast still holds the mile and a quarter track record of 2:03% here, for whatever it suggests to you. . . . Some of the Illinois boards recing regula- Continued on Page Seventeen JUDGES STAND By CHARLES H ATT ON Continued from Page Fifty-Two tions are undergoing revision. . . . Pete ODonnell is a former Louisville sports writer. . . . Lincoln is among the few Chicago tracks having no turf course. . . . The motel type tackrooms here probably reduce the insurance rate. . . . Chief chemist, Y. T. Oester, reports there were fiv,e positives from a total of 1,734 saliva tests and 1,607 urinalysis made at Illinois tracks last season. .. . . Imbros quite surprised some of the West Coast observers by his recent winning race, as he had seemed less formidable than in the winter. . . . There already is a large horse colony at Arlington. . . . Ben Lindheimer is devoting his personal attention to details of the opener. . . . Charlton Clay is a commuter from Paris, Ky„ whenever his Lea Lane runs. Nobody more appreciates a good horse.
