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R E F L E C T I O N S nelson dunst an AQUEDUCT, L. I., N. Y., June 29. Racing approaches two of the most colorful days of American turf, for on Saturday and Monday some 17 stakes events with an added value of approximately 85,000 will be featured throughout the country. In New York, the 0,000 Dwyer will head the card of Saturday and nn Mnnriav t.hf bar ter Handicap, one of the oldest sprints in the Metropolitan pf" sport will bring together a group of three-year-olds and older horses at seven furlongs. The improved showing of Porterhouse Monday will add some interest to the Dwyer, but only that race will determine whether the improvement has been sufficient to rank him with the divisions leaders Determine, Hasty Road and High Gun. How the Dwyer field will shape up is a question, but as we said yesterday, it will test High Guns ability at one and one-quarter miles. In a conversation with Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., in Kentucky last week, he said: "My horse ran a very good race in the Belmont, but whether he will come within the shadow of Assault is something that only racing can answer. I am not sure when he will start again." It is this writers impression that he will start in the Dwyer, but the horse who will probably be the most keenly watched is Porterhouse. Palm Tree was the winner of the Cant Wait at a mile and a sixteenth on Monday, but was disqualified and Porterhouse was moved from third position up to second to Paper Tiger. The Greentree Stables Palm Tree is eligible for the Dwyer and on the strength of Mondays race will bear watching. At Delaware Park Monday, Mrs. George D. Wide-ners Evening Out came back to her own by whining the mile and a sixteenth event for three-year-old and older fillies. This race, which was aptly named the Get Ready, Lush Week End of Racing Is Ahead Stakes of Almost Half Million Added Keeneland Sales Catalogs Now in Mail Deserved Tribute Paid Bil lie Smith was a 0,000 prep for the 00,000 New Castle Handicap, which will be the feature at the Wilmington track next Monday. Grecian Queen surprised the spectators by finishing second, with the hard-hitting five-year-old rnare La Corredora third. Evening Out has been one of the most consistent fillies in American racing, but it was heartening to the followers of Grecian Queen to see this Whitaker miss finally run to the form that made her the .-best three-year-old of her sex during 1953. Prior to this race, Evening Out had been beaten but once by one of her age and sex and that was in the Gazelle Stakes, when, On Your Own, from the King Ranch, and a full sister to Assault, outran her by one length,, with Fascinator third. Much attention next Monday is likely to turn to Delaware as the New Castle is likely to draw the best" field of fillies and mares of the season. Last year, Grecian Queen was the New Castle winner as a three-year-old, and Evening Out appears to be the one they will all have to beat this season. A A 4 Of late we received the preliminary catalogue of the Fasig-Tipton Company for the Saratoga . sales and the complete catalogue of the Keeneland summer sales, which will be held July 26-28. After our trip to Kentucky, and we will soon be going through Virginia, we believe this will be one of the best years for yearlings that we have seen in some 24 years of inspections of the stock that will be offered to the buying public. It is not within our province to guess what colt or filly will bring the top price, but we do believe that the 9,000 paid for a filly by Roman, out of Boat, a daughter of Man o War, in 1953, will be topped. We have some new sires sending progeny to the salesring, and one is Royal Charger, the sensational sire who is now standing at the Spendthrift Farm of Leslie Combs H. His Mabs Choice won the first running of the Distaff Handicap at Aqueduct Monday. At Keeneland, only one colt by Royal Charger will be offered, and he is a chestnut son out of the mare Bray Melody, by Coup de Lyon,, the dam of Happy Laughter, who was the leading three-year-old filly in England in 1953. This colt is one of many offerings by the Crown Crest Farm of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Reineman and, we might add, this is one of the fastest growing establishments in the Blue - Grass area. At Saratoga, the Aga Khan will offer a Royal Charger colt, and William H. Miles will consign a colt by the same sire. Nydrie Stud will sell a chestnut filly by this imported sire, out of Malta, by Fairhaven. Still another Royal Charger, a colt, will be sold by the Springs-bury Farm of Mr. and Mrs. George Greenhalgh. There will also be one sold by Tim Vigors. AAA We still hear reports that the convention of the National Association of State Racing Commissioners at Asbury Park last week was one of the most constructive in the history of this important organization. Commissioner Earl J. Moyer of Nebraska, one of the bulwarks of the commission for many years, paid a well-deserved compliment to- Mrs. A. E. Smith, permanent secretary and assistant treasurer of the organization. Working behind the scenes, but always active, Mrs. Smith, who is best known as "Billie," has been one of the most strenuous workers for the organization we know. Introducing this Continued on Page Forty-Fire I REFLECTIONS By NELSON DUNSTAN Continued from Page Fifty-Six little lady to the convention, commissioner Moyer referred to her as "the indispensable Billie Smith," and we know of no more fitting tribute to the loyalty of the lady who handled the myriad details of a convention that progressed with the utmost smoothness. The commissioners are fortunate in having Mrs. Smith as their permanent secretary and assistant treasurer, and Moyer gave credit where credit is due.
