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Connors Corner By Ckvck Connors 1 1Youthful Youthful Stakes Opens Month of May Recall Two Disqualifications in Fixture Serious Collision Averted at Belmont BelmontJAMAICA JAMAICA L I N Y April 30 Tomorrow is May Day and the Youthful Stakes is the featured offering This is a dash for twoyearolds at five furlongs and this New York fixture has a couple of standout events in its career which dates back to 1903 The 1930 running witnessed the dis ¬ qualification of Equipoise and thus permitting Vander Pool to wind up his twoyearold career unbeaten However Vander Pool was judiciously handled and dur ¬ ing the summer and fall managed to avoid conflict with many of the better twoyearolds of that year The disqualification of Equi ¬ poise was not looked upon with favor by the vast majority and arguments raged all tfirough the summer Another disqualification came out of the 1950 running when Bank Account after winning the first division was placed last and the award went to Iswas There never was any question as to the best horse to account for the Youthful and that was none other than Man o War Seven are in the Youthful tomorrow and the field is a well balanced one oneApril April by tomorrow will be history and there are a lot of racing men who will shed no tears but will in the future look back nd recall that month as the variable one Weather set a flock of records and reduced the size of the fields at the meeting The top brass at Jamaica are hoping that May will prove more stable in the matter of weather and thus induce horsemen to start their charges in overnight races In this wish they are joined by the rank and file of the racing clans While some of the better regarded twoyearolds are missing from the Youthful their owners and trainers preferring to await the BelmOnt Park meet Vermont will have the signal honor of supplying the favorite in Mill River Stables State Express who was bred in the Granite State by Mrs J F C Bryce This is prob ¬ ably the first time in history that a Vermontbred will be the popular choice for a New York stake stakeTraining Training Period Marred by Mishap What could have been a serious head on collision was narrowly averted at Belmont Park this morning due to the alertness of trainer York McLeod and out ¬ rider Lucas Dupps Runfast owned by Ray Bell and trained by his son Tom and Hidi Mike owned by Jack Silverman were involved and brushed by and escaped serious injury as did exercise riders William Rock and Charles Moreno Runfast a fouryearold wheeled and unseated Rock at the threesixteenths pole and then turned and ran the wrong way of the training track As he started to run Moreno had just broken Hidi Mike from the quarter pole and was speeding along McLeod and Dupps were standing at the rail and within easy hollering distance of the two horses sensed the danger and yelled at Moreno The latter startled by the cries looked up saw the oncoming horse and swerved to one side just in time The horses according to spectators were fortunate to escape serious injuries although Hidi Mike was taken off the track in the ambulance He will be treated and later will return to the racing wars Rock escaped injury when he was unseated while Moreno was removed to the Mineola Hospital for ob ¬ servation and a general check up Runfast was shaken up but appeared in good physical condition conditionCharles Charles Cohen the Miami Beach patron who re ¬ cently arrived from Lexington Ky reported the arrival of two foals over the week end They are both colts by Crafty Admiral from Safe Conduct and Adjournment The foals are at Joe Metz Kentucky farm and this brings to a balanced six colts and a like number of fillies owned by the Miamian Major Albert Warner was an arrival from Miami Beach this morning He reported that interest was sustained in the Gulfstream Park meeting until the last day He also reported that the mare Growing Up foaled a filly by Alibhai Growing Up will be returned to the court of Alcibiades Addison Fowler came over fromlfew Jersey for the afternoon Maurice Bernstein from the haute monde of Seventh Avenue planed out for Louisville Ky to witness the running of the Derby He is sched ¬ uled to return next week Mr and Mrs R J Kleberg arrived from the King Ranch down Texas way and were Belmont Park visitors during the morning training hours Jimmy Coleman took over the training of a couple of horses and will stable them at Aqueduct Mrs Iselin to Witness English Derby DerbyMrs Mrs C Oliver Iselin who maintains a menage here with Willie Post and another in England will plane to London on Wednesday She will remain abroad until the English Derby and then pay a visit to the continent Newall E Deen the blacksmith who was with Calumet for several years and during the winter was in charge of the plating board at Tropical and Hialeah is a patient at the Veterans Hospital Fort Hamilton Brooklyn N Y He is a victim of arthritis and other complications Samuel A Peck came out to lend encouragement to his starters Mrs W Thorn Kissell who has a well balanced menage with Dolly Byers was present for the afternoon Horsemen were notified that eligibility payments for the Cham pagne ° Frizette Spinaway and Hopeful are due on JjlllAIJlJ Continued on Page ThirtyFive CONNORS CORNER CORNERBy By CHUCK CONNORS Continued from Page Six SixWednesday Wednesday May 1 Bob Loughlhvof the TRPB is here on a business mission missionTrainer Trainer Harold Goodwin reported that Boardman owned by Myron Goodwin of Youngstown Ohio rapped himself in his last trial and will be on the shelf for some time The colt was undefeated during the Florida season Trainer Mack Miller reported that Leallah owned by Charlton Clay rapped herself in a recent trial and thus was forced to pass up her Kentucky Oaks engagement The filly and others in the Miller menage are stabled at Belmont Park Owner trainer J Nickerson turned over the horses Scampering and San Souer to Frank Dougherty to train Nickerson will leave for San Francisco to take over the California division of Elmendorf At private terms Nickerson sold the three yearold The Axe by Guillotine to an undisclosed purchaser Trainer Moody Jolley or ¬ dered a number of stalls bedded down for his charges which he is bringing on from Lexington Ky
