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J California By Oscar Otis Lakes and Flowers Hollypark Feature Easterners to Bid for Naylor Stock Ellsworth Earns Big Sum as Breeder t HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., June 17. Horses and People: Hollywood Park, which quite aptly styles itsel-the track of the lakes and flowers six lakes, about 2,000,000 blooms offers the Lakes and Flowers Handicap at seven furlongs as its Saturday stake feature. ... In past years it was rated as being the championship sprint j test of the summer i season and will so be recognized again this Satiirdav for its fourth running, but because of the one-day extension at the end of the meeting, the Lakes and Flowers will not be the final opportunity for sprinters to earn important money. . . . The new 5,000 six-. furlong Los Angeles Handicap has been carded as the closing-day feature. . . . The opening Saturday at Ruidoso showed a 30 per cent increase over last year, the first Sunday also being up 37.10 per cent over the comparable day last year, a most sensational uppage in both attendance arid pari-mutuel wagering. . . . Walter Dauchy of Del Mar tells us requests for reserved season reservations at the expanded Surf and Turf Club are shattering all previous records. The last time we looked, Rex Ellsworth had earned 6,428.75 in breeders awards at this very meeting:, a substantial sum which indicates quite dramatically the part that breeders awards have played in the development of the industry in this state. Nobody disputes the worth of the breeders awards, but the argument still rages over whether the one race a day for bona fide Cali-fornia-breds, as required by law, are helpful or actually have begun to act as a deterrent to the improvement of the breed. . . . Important Eastern money will be represented at the W. W. "Tiny" Naylor complete dispersal sale of stock at the Riverside Ranch a week from Monday. The vast bulk of the mares that Naylor is consigning is that desirable, for through the years and through constant culling and large expenditures, Naylor has assembled one of the best broodmare bands in the nation. . , . A State Senate interim committee on racing subjects has been organized with Harry L. Parkman of San Mateo as its chairman, will spend part of the summer delving further into racing affairs. Senator Parkman is at once an able legislator and is quite familiar with the turf and its operation. . Webb Everett, director of racing at Longacres, has been visiting in the southland and has obtained a sheaf of nominations for the big race of the northwest, the traditional Longacres Mile . . . The Solidaritys continue to distinguish themselves on the race course. Mrs. Nat Gold-stone, owner of this among the top California sires, plans to send him to the farm elected by John D. Hertz for Count Speed . . . Both "Speed" and Solidarity, as readers probably by now are well aware, must find new homes by fall" when Amarillo ceases to function as a thoroughbred production center . . . Neither Swaps nor Nashua are eligible for the 00,000 added Santa Anita Maturity, and they cant get in, either, no supplemental. Bill Finnegan, trainer of the Nursery Stakes winner, Carmel, remarks that he wants to be convinced of the Citation fillys true merit by meeting some of the top juvenile distaff developments of the summer, some of whom, for one reason or another, missed the Nursery . . . But as this corner remarked on Thursday, while Carmels time was hot impressive, she won the Nursery in grand manner and she has a way of striding that is quite reminiscent of the actions of her Continued on Page Fifty-Five California By OSCAR OTIS Continued from Page Six sire . . . Johnny Alessio of Caliente has ordered steel for a major expansion of his "top of the turf club" area . . . That new 0,000 stake at Pomona will set a turf precedent in the West in that it will have exactly half the purse, 50 per cent, plus nomination and starting fees to the winner. The rule of thumb heretofore has been at least 55 per cent plus fees to the victor. Willie Molter, trainer of Determine, made news yesterday when queried as to his reaction regarding the 126 pounds assigned the hard-hitting grey for the 00,-000 Gold Cup, said: "It is about what I expected. After all, he did run a new world record for a mile and a sixteenth if Swaps had not been in the field." Molter, so far as anyone can recall, has never complained about a weight, except his own poundage when he was riding. For it was weight which forced him from the saddle into an infinitely more rewarding, and successful, career as a trainer . . . George Holmes, Southern California member of the racing commission, leaves for the high Sierras late this month, will come back to "civilization" only on urgent board business. But he will keep himself available on matters turf via primitive telephone. Newest way of measuring strides is via film patrol; and, checked through this method were both Swaps and Determine. The pix showed Swaps took 27 strides to the furlong, or just under 25 feet per leap. Determine took 29 strides to cover the same distance. While this method is not absolutely exact, it is close enough to be taken as reasonably accurate . George T. Davis, turf minded sports editor of the Los Angeles Herald-Express is back from an extended sojourn in Europe. His story of trying to find out the winner of the Kentucky Derby, while in Brussels, would make a good screen scenario . . . Gene Mori, of the far-flung Garden State Park racing empire, is expected here next week for an extended stay . . . Marge Lindheimer is going va-racing again in this part of the world . . . Before Del Mar could gb ahead , with the announcement of 12-horse, or full, fields at its meeting this summer, the subject was discussed with the Jockeys Guild. No objections, inasmuch as Del Mar is an exact replica of Hollywood Park, except for chutes.
