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v I Delaware By Charles Hatton Myrtles Jet Ready for Rich Delaware Oaks Goodwins Guide to Selecting Winners Parlo May Miss Stanton Filly Stakes DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 16. The Maine Chance Farms fashion-plated Myrtles Jet planed into Stanton today from New York, to throw down the gauge to High Voltage, Lalun and others of the lands outstanding three-year-old fillies in the 0,000 Delaware Oaks here this Saturday. Discussing the daughter of Jet Pilot and the mare, Myrtle Charm, who we, incidentally, bred by proxy, trainer Ike Mourar said, "the filly is really up to her pace here. We were delighted with her race at Garden State when she was third to Gandharva and Sometime Thing in the Betsy Ross and since then she has worked most satisfactorily. We plan to give her a short breeze tomorrow, and she will then be ready for her best. Mrs. Graham will be here on Saturday to see the race." Racing secretary Gil Haus forsees a field of about 11 for the week ends first lap of the "Distaff Big Three." These together with their weights are High Voltage, 119; Myrtles Jet, 119; Lalun, 119; Rico Reta, 113; Rico Romance, 113; Hibernian, 113; Bless Pat, 113; Loqua-cious, 110; Hen Party, 110; Smart Devil, 110 and Sin Igual, 110. Quartet Trained by Max Hirsch Four of these Rico Reta, Loquacious, Rico Romance and Sin Iqual are trained by the consummately experienced Max Hirsch, and he has engaged riders for them all. Hen Party and Smart Devil carry the historic canary and blue colors of Louis Lee Haggin II., president of the sporting Keeneland track. In all probability, the Phipps photogenic gray, High Voltage, will be the favorite, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro in the stirrups. She already this season has won the important Black-Eyed Susan, Acorn and Coaching Club American Oaks. This morning she was on the Delaware course for a leisurely three furlongs in :36, with the proverbial stone in hand. Unless we miss our guess this granddaughter of Frances noted Tourbillon is something really special. And it will be surprising if any of her age and sex division compiles a comparable record this season. From time to time, this observer has submitted little essays on the mysteries of handicapping, with the unusual unfortunate consequences. But it is an endlessly fascinating subject, and Gil Haus has produced a copy of the 1903 Goodwins Guide, loaned him by that old bibliophile paddock judge, Jennings, which is rather pertinent despite its years. There is a chapter in the back of this compendium of ancient racing results, titled, "Handicapping," and it has a subhead called, "Stock in Trade." Under this latter head is the first prerequisite, "brains." Secondarily, there is "money." The Goodwin Brothers say that "if a person who has very little brains which he will not admit, attempts, in too short a time, to become an expert handicapper and operates on his supposed knowledge, he will soon have very little money, although his brain will become fertilized. If he just makes mind bets he can only lose his mind! But if he has a good stock of both brains and money, although it may not increase, he will assuredly last longer. We do not speak of a person positively winning for the reason that ones best calculations are always subject to overthrow through the 23 possible casualties which can occur to a horse in a race, and which we mention on page 85 in a book-which we recently vrote and placed on the market, entitled: How to Make or Lose ! Money on a Small Capital. " Cite Four Divisions of Racing Class The Goodwin brothers go on to say that, "handicapping is an art in which one can only become proficient by making a close study of racing and by watching the movements of as many different horses as possible in the different events. Class is worthy of the closest study, as it plays an all important part. Class can be divided into four divisions the first class, second, third and the no good class. It is almost an impossibility to bring together by an adjustment of weights on anything like equal terms the first and two last named. To the uninitiated, it may seem paradoxical to say that some horses run better with a heavy weight than they do with a light weight. The reason for this is because some animals require a strong armed jockey to hold them together, as it were, which a light-weight boy, by reason of lack of strength, cannot do." Watch that holding them together, Bub. William duPont, to whom Delaware Park is a monu-ment, tells us that most of -Dick Handlens trainees are . coughing, but he still hopes to run Parlo in one or another of the "Distaff Big Three." The virus has not extended to this superlative mare at the writing and it may be she will prove immune. Parlo is, for her inches, one of the best performers of her sex in modern times. She is not sufficiently robust to campaign from Saturday to Saturday, nor does she ship very comfortably. But in her best form, as she is at present, the daughter of Heliopolis has to be respected in any company and under high weights at big distances. It may be that she will join duPont very select band of broodmares next season, and one would think that as a member of Fairy Chants family she wUl .add to her fame as a producer. t s - u
