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JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATT0N ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 26. The week ahead at this point will be punctuated by next Saturdays renewals of the Myrtlewood and Cleopatra Handicaps, and on Monday by another dual attraction comprising the Stars and Stripes and the Pollyanna. The Myrtlewood, honoring Brownell Combs mathriarchal producer, has 0,000 added and will bring together the local fast set at six furlongs. The Cleopatra, named for Tom Fools ancestress, is endowed with 5,000 and is at a flat mile for three-year-old fillies, serving to introduce the long and generous roster of filly-and-mare features at the co-ordinated Arlington and Washington meets. "Pat" Farrell lists 25 eligibles for the Myrtlewood, among them Hasty Road, Sir Mango, Due de Per, Happy Go Lucky and Spur On; These alone suggest that it should be something to see if one looks sharply. AAA Hasty Road naturally will be required to shoulder a considerable package, even though this stake is open to older horses, but we should think it would take a White Skies to cope with him for sheer zip. At the same time, Sir Mango impresses as one of the most improved horses in training. A winner of three stakes at Lincoln, it must remain for competition at this meeting to disclose the degree of his progress. The cofeatured Cleopatra often in the past has been rather revelatory, showing such as Busher, Miss -Kimo and Sickles Image as the-ones-to-beat in the three-year-old filly division. And next Saturdays twelfth renewal could have the same significance. Best known of the prospective starters is another of the formidable Hasty House string, in this instance the Four Stakes on Holiday Week End in Chicago Hasty House Bids for Saturday Features Interesting Pollyanna Stakes Renewal Looms The Dancer Prospect lor Arc dTriomphe? deceptively dainty little Queen Hopeful, heroine of the Black-Eyed Susan. She did not quite stay the 11 furlongs of the CCA Oaks, but is by no means out of her depth in the mile of the Cleopatra and from this distance looms the only plausible choice. A A ,A The renewal a week from this Monday of the Pollyanna promises to develop one of the most important in the history of this 5,000 added filly fixture. Frederick G. "Pat" Farrell has listed 48 nominees, developed in spring and early summer competition extending from here to the Atlantic seaboard and north to Canada. And these include Charlton Clays Lea Lane, Herman Delmans Royal Hostess,, Maine Chance Farms Fantine Busher, Tom Girdlers Gambetta and Mrs. E. P. Taylors Flirt, a French daughter of Menetrier. Since Fantine Busher and Royal Hostess emerged as fillies of promise in the east and the sensational.Lea Lane is distinctly a Midwesterner, this event could well afford a direct line on the class of competition in the two areas. Intersectional rivalry becomes rather intense here during Arlington and Chicago-ans have come to regard Lea Lane nearly invincible among those of her age and sex. There is always the piquant possibility, however that in the early summer stakes for two-years olds somebody will introduce one of unknown quantity and the highest quality. And we note several bluebookish fillies in the nominations for the upcoming Pollyanna. Fantine Busher"for instance is only one of five made eligible by Mrs. Graham, and several of the others have the breeding to be top drawer. One of , these is Myrtles Jet, who is by Jet Pilot out of Myrtle Charm, herself a two-year-old filly champion. Another interesting item is Belle Busher, who is by Mr. Busher out of no less a flier than was Beaugay. At this point we have no idea of their capacities, but if it is of high degree nobody need be at all surprised. AAA There is an inference that Billy Winfreys flight to Europe involves some possibility Native Dancer will be a starter in the Arc dTriomphe at Longchamp in the leafy Bois de Boulogne next autumn. And this observer, for one, hopes the journey is not being misconstrued. We realize there are some who impertinently incline to be out of sympathy with Alfred Vanderbilts hopes of making an international champion of Native Dancer, broadly hinting that they feel he is too valuable to the sport in America. But after all he belongs to the master of Sagamore, and surely the turf in this country can spare him the week or 10 days required to have a go at the Arc dTriomphe. Just as it now is perforce managing without The Dancer. As we recall the Arc dTriomphe last season was worth more than 00,000, to say nothing of the tremendous international prestige accruing the winner. For this race attracts the finest horses in France, Italy, Germany and the British Isles. It may be only a flight of fantasy, but it would be nice were "Dancer" to thus extend his domain, and we can appreciate his owners hopes in the matter. Particularly since he may not have another opportunity, for he is to be retired to the stud next winter, serving at Sagamore in Maryland and incidentally thereby creating a minor boom in the vanning business. At some risk of Continued on Page Forty-Nine I JUDGES STAND By-CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Sixty seeming intolerably repititious, we will say again that in our opinion he is a natural for those European classics. AAA . Turf ana: The hurdle stake brought the tweedier hunt set out in full force, assembled from all about the South and Midwest. . .Abbe Stings sire Abbe Pierce raced for R. B. Strassburger in France. . . A suburb is growing along the backstretch of this course. . .The main course here was never sharper. . .The escalators have made a noticeable difference in paddock attendance. . .Equipoises challenging 1:34 still is the track mark... Hasty House has a Pollyanna candidate with an interesting pedigree in Fleur dAmour, who is by Ardan out of War Flower, dam of Ace Admiral. . . Hasty House has been training at Washington Park for local engagements... Johnny Adams is riding at the top of his form here. . .W. Arnold Hangers Iceberg n. is a candidate for the Stars and Stripes. j
