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Connors Corner By "CHUCK" CONNORS Note Racing Surface Disparity More Harrowing Along Inner Rail Charles Hope En Route to England AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 29. The care and maintenance of a racing strip is a serious problem these days, despite the many many advances advances in in - many many advances advances in in - mechanical aids that speed the work. Track superintendents have but a few hours between the close of the training period to post time, in which to groom the strip for the afternoons races. Max Hirsch is a stickler for uniformity in track surfaces and yesterday discussing discussing the the post post discussing discussing the the post post positions for the starting field in the Distaff Handicap, delivered a few choice words on the disparity between the inner and outer perimeters when it came to similar textures. He said that track maintenance crews as a rule are given to working the inner surfaces and neglecting the outside. This he cited is due to the fact that during the morning hours the greater number, of horses train along the inner rail. This surface naturally becomes the focal point of attack on the part of maintenance forces and as a result the outer perimeter is glossed; over. His objections to this method of harrowing and leveling is that it favors horses that draw inside positions, a handicap hard to overcome should a half dozen speed horses thus be favored in the draw. The veteran Texan is of the opinion that several times during the week the inner perimeter of the track be closed and all horses required to work on the outside. This he pointed out would quickly bring about a uniformity from one rail to the other, due to the increased harrowing on the outside, and eventually bring about an improvement in racing. Trainer Jim Fitzsimmons vanned Quick Lunch to Monmouth Park to start in the Select Handicap. The Wheatley Stable representative will be ridden by Sidney Cole and returned here following the race . . . Trainer A. Pupino of the Clearwater Stable shipped up Ala-dear from Monmouth Park for engagements ... Harvey Fruehauf and Fred Hoffman of Detroit were among yesterdays visitors. They came east from their homes to bid bon voyage to their respective daughters who sailed for European vacations Charles Hope, who maintains Catswald Hill Stud in Queensland, Australia, was among yesterdays visitors as a guest of Max Hirsch. Mr. Hope is en route to England for some racing and to inspect several breeding establishments in that country and Ireland. His Catswald Hill Stud comprises 600 acres and at the head of the stud is Signal Man, a son of Signal Light, with 20 mares. Mr. Hope recently arrived from Texas, where he visited King Ranch. He was completing his seventh trip from the land Down Under to this country since I 1926, and - was favorably impressed with 1 American horses. He reported that Bern- I borough was raised three miles from his I farm and was regarded as one of the bet- I ter horses in Australia. In his conversa- I tions on Australian racing he pointed out I that every Saturday and holiday through- I out- the year racing is conducted in every I city in the country. He also said that the I majority Of the big tracks are well equipped I when it comes to training facilities, for, in I addition to the main course, grass, there I are other tracks, one cinders, used in wet I weather, a dirt or sand track and also a I grass training track. Mr. Hope plans to I return this way from England to witness I some fall racing in this area. I Nashua, owned by the Belair Stud of I William Woodward, was placed back in I training following a light respite at the I farm in Maryland. The coli will be I readied for Saratoga Springs engage- I ments. ... Jack Needles, of the Belmont fl and Saratoga administration staff, was I a visitor yesterday for the first time at H the meeting. H Trainer Bobby Green plans to ship Sun-H shine Nell, owned by Meyer J. Kaplan, toH Delaware Park the latter part of this week.M The miss will start in the New Castle Handicap. . . . Mrs. Anne Clare, trackH superintendent at Saratoga Springs, re-H turned to the upstate resort. She plans toH return to attend the New York TurH Writers dinner-dance at the Waldorf bnS Saturday, July 10. . . . Hot Pursuit, thtH three-year-old son of Requested and thM French-bred Imprudence II., owned by th Cain Hoy Stable, was returned to BelmonB Park yesterday from the farm. The colM is a sufferer from a bladder ailment, buH sometimes evinces symptoms of havinH kidney stones.
