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tattgffm -a :;w JUDGES S T AND 11 CHAms HATT0N ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, HI., June 28. Hasty Road must have erased any vestigal doubts he is a colt of superior quality in winning the Warren Wright here on the week end. The Wright posed a i somewhat different question from the J f Derby Derby and and Preakness, Preakness, in in that that this this tattgffm -a :;w J f Derby Derby and and Preakness, Preakness, in in that that this this seven furlongs required him to carry 124 and make some ponderable weight concessions, spotting Hasseyampa eight pounds. The striking looking bay with the spectacular blaze brought it off in time just two-fifths of a second behind the course record of 1:22. It is true he did not "spread eagle" his field, as the public seemed to expect, judging from the odds. But he won authoritatively enough, and was going away at the line. Only for the fact the ground broke from beneath him at the outset, he would-doubtless have accomplished his task with more verve. "For an instant there at the start I wasnt sure I still had him," Johnny Adams remarked, "but I pulled him together and we were in a good position and saving ground to the stretch." It would be understandable if "Shorty" had another moment of uneasiness when Bushers Beam neglected to stop a furlong out and he perforce drew his whip.. A A A Hasty Road has some of the temperament of his late dam, Traffic Court, who was an ungovernable jade, and on occasion in the past has been resentful placed to pressure. But he responded willingly in the Wright. Following the race, trainer Harry Trotsek said the colt appeared none the worse for wear except for several superficial scratches. As you may know, -there is always some imminence a horse will grab a quarter or otherwise injure himself in stumbling at the break. We are not prepared to say when Hasty Road will reappear under colors, but he Hasty Road Establishes His Superiority Near Record Under Topweight in Wright Midwest Hunt Group Elects Youmans Dark Grier Credit to Illinois Stud is eligible for Saturdays Myrtlewood and, incidentally, is one of eight candidates the Reubens have for the four holiday week-end features. His redoubtable little stable-mate,. Queen Hopeful, is expected to start in the Cleopatra, which is the Myrtlewoods co-feature. As we un?-derstand. these two cost the Toledo sportsman 8,900. They have now earned some 50,000 and promise many more dividends. AAA Concurrent with the decision of the Arlington Park Hurdle Stakes here the other day, the Midwest Hunt Race Association held its annual meeting, electing Dr. John B. Youmans of Nashville the club president. Robert E. Lee Wilson III. of Wilson, Ark., was elected vice-president, and A. B. Plamondon HL of Chicago and Campbell Brown of Nashville were reelected treasurer and secretary. The Midwest Hunt Race Association is an affiliate of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association. One thinks of the East as the natural habitat of the hunt set, but this organization was formed with the object of stirring interest in the amateur sport here in the Midlands. It now conducts a series of five meetings, culminating with the Arlington Hurdles. First of its meets is at Tryon, N. C,. following by a week a single race for horses owned in the Middlewest. Subsequent meets are held at Oak Grove, near Memphis; Percy Warner Park, near Nashville; Oxmpor, near Louisville, and Royalton, near Indianapolis. Dr. Youmans is dean of medicine at Vander bilt University and is a world-renowned authority on internal medicine and nutrition. For the better part of his adult life, he has been a hunting and racing enthusiast and he has compaigned a string, mostly homebreds, both in chase and flat competition. Wilson, a Princeton alumnus, is the owner and operator of ah extensive plantation in Arkansas. A polo player in college days, he naturally gravitated to racing and steeplechasing and now has horses active in both phases of the sport. It was he who organized and manages the Oak Grove meeting. Plamondon was for years an amateur steeplechase jockey, and he has been of material assistance in arranging the Arlington Hurdle Stake. Brown, who currently has a position with the Tennessee Historical Commission, is also president of the Tennessee Thoroughbred Club. AAA One of- the nimblest Ulinois-breds since the days of Anita Peabody is E. T. Becklians Dark Grier, who won a division.of the Primer here recently. This husky specimen is a son of Sedgmoor and Dark Lace, by Man ONight, and he was bred on Earl H. McMahons farm of about a dozen acres almost within the city limits of Chicago. If the colts pedigree in the first removes does not seem quite the dernier cri of fashion, there is some class just behind it. For Sedgemoor, who stands at McMahons stud, is a son of Blenheim H. and Ladana, the ancestress of Twilight Tear. And Man ONight, who served for years in Tennessee is by no less a stallion than was Manna, the Epsom Derby winner. As we understand it, the mare Dark Lace now has a yearling and suckling brothers to Dark Grier. The Primer naturally was gratifying to members of the Illinois Breeders Association, who are striving to improve the quality of the home product. There are a scattering of races exclusively for. Ulinoians, but not Continued on Page Forty-Five JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Fifty-Six enough to encourage anybody to breed horses for the express purpose of competing for these events. When a homebred wins in open races he is awarded a bonus of 10 per cent and in the Instance of Dark Griers Primer this came to a bit more than ,000, A A Turfana : Ginny Bug established a hurdle record in winning a seventh straight here, according to hunt meet authorities. She is to be bred next season. , . . Chris Wood, Jr., director of hurdle racing at Monmouth, was here in the interest of the New Jersey tracks events. . . . Arlingtons gadgets inr elude sprinkler with an arm which makes it possible to water more than half of the course simultaneously," without the trucks weight ever coming into contact with the track surface there. . Matt Winn Williamson recently purchased a yearling colt-bred like Hasty Rqad from Jimmy Tupper. . . . General manager-Robert Henderson ia awakening the horses these mornings. . . . Some ,300,000 is said to have been expended remodelling Washington Park . . Arlington may boast two lakes, one in tha innerfield, another adjacent to the Post and Paddock Club, . . . Divots in the turf course here are .filled with sand. . . , Th club is renewing its distance race series, which proveel so popular with the public and last summers meeting.
