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REFLECTIO NS By NELSON DUNSTAN AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 21. — Explaining Evening Outs failure in Saturdays renewal of the Gazelle is hardly the most pleasant of Monday morning chores. We fear that any light we may bring to bear upon the defeat suffered by George D. Wide-ners fine filly and overwhelming choice choice will will bring bring but but scant scant consola- choice choice will will bring bring but but scant scant consola- consolation to those who — as we did — looked on the mile and a sixteenth stake as a mere formality for one who had never previously been beaten by one of her own sex. King Ranchs On Your Own, a full sister to the great Assault, humbled Evening Out on Saturday, leading from end to end in the Gazelle, and resisting the favorites strong stretch challenge by the margin of a length at the wire. This pair met at even weights of 113 pounds, thanks to the conditions of the Gazelle, and Maine Chance Farms Fascinator, conceding them both eight pounds, wound up a length farther back in third place, a performance that was, all things considered, on a par with that of the first two. And so what happened to Evening Out? Our only answer must be that the robust daughter of Shut Out lost ground on the first turn and was forced thereafter to race wide, the "breaks" being against her in a large field, so that the initial handicap was a trifle more than she could overcome, and this despite Eddie Arcaros vigorous assistance in the long drive. AAA While Evening Out was encountering difficulties at the rear of the pack, On Your Own was out of harms way on the head end, jockey Willie Boland rating the little chestnut filly in a manner that would insure his finding something left for the anticipated battle through the final stages. Over a strip that was certainly not "glib" Explaini/ig Upset Gives Scant Satisfaction Evening Out Did Not Enjoy Racing Luck On Your Own Overcomes the Familys Jinx Calumet Filly Ranked at Top of Division or anything like it, he took the Bold Venture miss to the three-quarters in a mild 1:13%, while, now fully extended she passed the eight-furlong station in 1:40 flat, her time for the full distance being 1:46%, or almost four full seconds off Jacomars track record. In the meantime, Ar-caro, carried wide early, picked his path in and out of horses, finally taking Evening Out well to the middle of the track for the drive. After entering the excessively long Aqueduct stretch, Evening Out was some half dozen lengths off the leader, while with an eighth of a mile still to go, the favorite had at.least four lengths to make up. , Evening Out, who may have run her last quarter in the neighborhood of :25, set about her tack with her usual determination, but, in the last analysis, she was just not good enough last Saturday. As Arcaro said after the race, "Once we had been carried wide on the first turn, we need a little luck, and we didnt get it." AAA , Until this Gazelle, trainer Max Hirsch had had bad luck with Assaults brothers and sisters. There was a colt in whom the veteran horseman reposed great hopes, but he broke a bone in his ankle while disputing his very first race at Jamaica and had to be destroyed. Then there is Mazinga, now a six-year-old and still a maiden. Mazinga to look at, is a fine thoroughbred, but he has been a complete disappointment in competition. Time after time, this one goes to the post in a maiden race and closes a warm choice, but he is always beaten, and it is no exag geration to say that Mazinga by now-has lost the public more money than Assault ever earned for King Ranch, and Assault is one of the great money winners of all time. Now, with On Your Own, the family at last has another good stakes winner, nor is she likely to stop with the Gazelle. True, she enjoyed her share of good fortune on the week end, but On Your Own is a speedy trick, and this stake is proof that she has the heart to stick it out over a reasonable distance on top company. AAA Our morning mail contains a letter from our friend, Leon Rasmussen on the Coast, that could not be more timely. "I can fully understand your high regard for Evening Out," write Leon, "but here is a word of caution. Dont overlook Calumets Miz Clementine, Two Leas younger and sounder full sister, when you are considering this seasons crop of three-year-old fillies. Yesterday, June 17, she won her third stake of the Hollywood meeting, taking the Cinema Handicap from 11 colts and geldings in 1:42% for the mile and a sixteenth, giving weight on the scale to all but Allied, who conceded her four pounds, and Lucky Martin, with whom she was even. She gave both of them devasting beatings. In winning the Cinema, Miz Clementine defeated every good far western1 three-year-old with the lone exception of Determine. Even Jimmy Jones does not think her capable of handling that delightful gray colt. Also, in winning she was joining Honeymoon and A Gleam as the only two fillies to win this middle distance event. She now has the Hollywood Oaks at her mercy, and who is to say she wont be able to whip the elders of her sex in the Vanity? With Correlation definitely frayed, she appears to be the only logical threat to Determine in the Westerner on Continued on Page Forty-Four I REFLECTIONS By NELSON DUNSTAN Continued from Page Fifty-Two Combs II. and is out of Sequence, a daughter of Count Fleet. Sequence was the winner of the Princess Pat Stakes and is a sister to Bella Figura. The yearling is one of the most impressive colts we have seen in our short stay in Kentucky. His bottom line is faultless, for his second dam is Miss Dogwood, by Bull Dog, and the third dam the famous Myrtlewood, the daughter of Blue Larkspur. The only filly in the group we had an opportunity to see was Dale Shaffers brown filly out of Sweet Woman and she would attract many spectators as she is a half-sister to Sweet Patootie, champion two-year-old filly of 1942, and to Svidhod, a two-year-old miss in the Shaffer stable who won her first outing this year in brilliant fashion. This filly is of medium size and resembles her grandsire Roman closely. The only thing "Noor" about her is. her very heavy and deep shoulder. This sound filly should run 4f ast and far. The other daughters of Noor are a miss out of Challaqueen, in the Ira Drymon consignment, and Mrs. Roy Carruthers has another out of High Frequency. The Yolo Farm, which has a very fine consignment of four, will sell a bay filly out of Alfoxie, the daughter of Bimelech, who was a stakes winner. High Frequency, the dam of Mrs. Carruthers filly, was also a stakes winner, her victories including the Powcler Puff, Lads and Lassies and Champion Stakes.
