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—mmmmmmmmmimmmm Delaware Park • Notebook By JOE HIRSCH 1 Racing Council Aims to Better Sport Permanent Stabling May Be Asked 35 Vets to Spend Day at the Races DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 19. — The Maryland Racing Council is moving to improve the sport in the Old Line Line state.-A state.-A recently recently —mmmmmmmmmimmmm Line Line state.-A state.-A recently recently formed group consisting of representatives of Bowie, Laurel and Pimlico; the Maryland Breeders Association; the Maryland Minor Tracks Association; the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association and the American Trainers Association, this unique council brines brings together together varied varied brines brings together together varied varied turf interests in the spirit of cooperation and benefit for all parties. The group conducted a survey a short time ago and came up with some interesting figures, according to Joe Kelly, the local HBPA man and a former turf correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Approximately 24,000 horses started at American tracks last year and 12,000, or half of them, earned less than ,000. The Maryland body passed a rule earlier this spring stating that starters must have placed in a minimum ,500 race since July 1, prior to the opening of any meeting at a Maryland track. This replaced the so-called * ",000 rule" which had been in effect in the state since 1951, making horses ineligible after starting for a claiming price of less than ,000. AAA "Weve adopted this measure," says Kelly, "to thin out the excessive amounts of entries in the cheaper claiming races. At times this season a horse required half a dozen or more preference stars before getting a chance to work. Were in the heart of the breeding country and the short road from the farm to the track "is often a temptation." Other measures are due for consideration in the near future, according to Kelly. The Council may try to persuade horsemen to accept permanent stabling when they race in Maryland, maintaining their strings at one of the three major tracks and vanning to the other two courses. Bowie is approxi- . mately 30 miles from Pimlico and nine miles from Laurel, which Kelly feels is a feasible distance for this plan to succeed. Another plan in the offing is an improvement in receiving barn arrangements, including more space for both horses and van drivers who want to put up for the night after a long haul. Around the Track: Roger Conlon, apprentice under contract to Mrs. Dodge Sloanes Brookmeade Stable, resumes riding here on Monday. The youngster concluded a 10-day suspension yesterday and was in action at Monmouth today ... A party of 35 veterinarians from New Castle County, Delaware, and southeast Pennsylvania will make a tour of the plant next week. Theyll inspect the facilities in the backstretch and remain for a day of sport . . . Syl Veitch says he plans to start C. V. Whitneys Small Favor in the Delaware Oaks next Saturday and perhaps race her back for the 00,000 New Castle the following week end . . . Willie Dupont is enjoying one of his most successful seasons as an owner since this Stanton oval opened its gates in 1937. AAA The annual renewal of the Sgt. Muggins is scheduled for Tuesday. The race was originally carded as the Cpl. Muggins in 1941, in honor of the tracks Muggins Feldman. After a lapse of four years plus a promotion, it was renewed in 1945 under its present title . . . Brandywine Stables Waila, third behind Queen Hopeful and Gweny G. in the Black-Eyed Susan, has been suffering from anemia, according to trainer Buddy Raines. The immediate status of the Cosmic Bomb filly is in doubt. Rain, a Brandywine filly by Polynesian who impressed here last week, has been nominated and is a probable starter in the Oaks. AAA The scribes gained a phyrric victory in . the big golf playoffs with track officials last night at the Newark Del. Country Continued on Page Forty-Nine C ii 1 • . . : • • » V J! frii* vTT - T T «■ »f f. "v» n tfrr Delaware Notebook By JOE HIRSCII Continued from Page Seven Club. Stiff as a board after the evenings exertion and lobster dinner were winners Bryan Field and judges Ted McLean and Cal Rainey for the brass hats and writers Palmer Heagerty, Bob McCurley, Bill Boni-lace, Ray Kaight and Sam McCallum . . . "Hes done everything Ive asked him to," says trainer Jim Smith of Requisition, his ■tafTrntenOTra of the Montchanin distance series, finished second in another, and should wind up the winner at the eventual route of a mile and three-quarters -. . . Becky Collins, who is one of several women trainers on the grounds, bred and broke her own four-year-old Beckys Shirt. She rode show horses at 15, plans to race at Randall Park after this meeting closes . . . Bobby Sto-vall, Delawares leading apprentice, is a photography bug and has an excellent set of race track photos.
