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Churchill Downs 1 By Charles Nation Significance of Coveted Kentucky daks Guggenheim TeaTn Loom OnestoBeat Calumets Rosewood Awaits Another Day CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 2 This will be about the Kentucky Oaks fillies the stud and all that We used to resent running the Oaks as a Derby Eve feature an anticlimax to the Derby feeling that this de ¬ prived it of some of the point and importance it held when it was decided as the piece de resistance of the sport following the Derby But it does have the virtue that it changes the subject divert ¬ ing attention from the Derby a subject that can be exhausting indeed is pretty near exhausted for the moment we should think Besides this department has for years carried on a little crusade for more fillyand mare races They need a champion to do a bit of suf ¬ fragette work and proselytizing if for no other reason than for the sound economy of racing and breeding While that reason alone would seem good and suffici ¬ ent it turns out that the female of the species also have box office and events such as the rich Distaff Big Three Beldame Top Flight Coaching Club Amer ¬ ican Oaks and Alabama are among the most appealing on the calendar calendarThousands Thousands of visitors here for the Derby may be oblivous of it but victory in the Kentucky Oaks is a bond of quality to all racing men and breeders It carries a great deal of significance as a criterion to the broodmares of the future Moreover it is fully as an ¬ tique as the Derby for it was introduced in the long ago of 1875 At some risk of appearing a crashing bore it may be apropos to note that Modesty the winner in 1884 became the granddam of Regret Audi ¬ ence the winner in 1904 was the dam of Whisk Broom n and Kathleen Untidy Prinqess Doreen Alcibiades and Two Bob are others who made an indelible im ¬ pression on production Two Bob is the dam of Twosy Two Lea and Miz Clementine The 1949 winner Wistful gave racing Gen Duke as her very first foal Even this cursory examination of the record should suffice to prove the premise premiseStarters Starters Pedigree Recalls Past Winners There is much about racing and breeding which seems to the bloodstock student to ryhme For in ¬ stance the stablemates Salamanca and the Oaks Prep winner Pillow Talk are descended from Alcibiades Pil ¬ low Talk picks up a spot of weight however Sala ¬ manca would have to improve astonishingly and we expect that Capt Harry Guggenheims entry of the Ashland winner Jota Jota and the sprinter Nile Lily will be the choices At least they appear plausible choices to this observer And we look for Pamper Mef a stretch runner by Alsab to concern herself with the purse distribution She walked out of the gate jp the Prep and back at Hialeah gave such stubborn re ¬ sistance she won the Jasmine JasmineThis This department entertains a mental reservation about the threeyearold fillies here at the Downs If we were an owner and breeder we would not walk around Calumets strapping black Rosewood for any of Jhese mares She is awaiting another day Mrs Gene Markeys filly still is green and sprinting is not for her but she has a tremendous stride and was coming on objectively through the stretch racing against colts Thursday A natural for the Coaching Club Alabama and Delaware Oaks As we have previously noted she is gently bred a sister to Coaltown half sister of Wist ¬ ful and Gen Dukes aunt We shall follow her ca ¬ reer with keen interest interestErb Erb Explains Iron Lieges Poor Trial TrialTurf Turf ana Warm days cool nights are seen by weather soothsayers for the remainder of Derby Week No apparition of Jupe Pluve haunts Bill Corum Dave Erb explains the going broke away from Iron Liege in the Trial A wet surface might be as ad ¬ vantageous to him as it is disadvantageous to Round Table Louisville has had racing for 180 years They used to run down what now is Market Street Gen Duke was named for the Civil War hero who com ¬ manded Morgans Raiders Blue Sparklers re ¬ tirement moves Calumets Amoret up a notch among the handicap mares of 57 A dual stakes winner in Miami she now is training at the Downs Calumets classic candidates ship to Pimlico the remaining join ¬ ing the nucleus of the string at Garden State Park Odie Clelland who has both ridden and trainedDerby horses tells us that Switch Ons sister Switch Around has been retired to Mrs John Branhams Tennessee stud The Alabama winner Tournure is pointing for two of Delawares Distaff Big Three Bryan Fields son Tommy saved his GI pay and enrolled him ¬ self in Oxford Advising his parents of this he wrote They tell me I am a pretty fair student It is estimated that 50000 feet of Stevens distinguished hot dogs will be consumed Derby Day DayLeslie Leslie Combs II came up from Spendthrift for the Trial and promises to bejbjick for the Derby Charley Asbury is another Bluegrassonian going rac ¬ ing here when his 30odd foaling mares will permit The Caluinets customarily wear rundown bandages Sorry Johnny Choquette lost the mount on Gallant GallantContinued Continued on Page fortyFyt CHURCHILL DOWNS DOWNSBy By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Fne FneMan Man His critics found time to say the Mi goli colt might have won the Wood except for him Wonder if it has occurred to them that perhaps he would not have been with ¬ in several lengths of Bobo except for Choquettes quick thinking when he caught the Phipps colt loafing The KTBA has honored Gay Drakes Swoon dam of Swoons Son and Dogoon as the brood ¬ mare of 1956 A fairly useless racing tool she has foaled the winners of 753720 There are many slower twoyearolds than is Roman Bow a recent Downs winner by the battlescarred Roman Sandal He is eligible for the 10000 Bashford Manor on the eighteenth New tote records may be set in the Derby and it is expected that the attendance for the meeting will approximate last springs though the daily average play could be a trifle off in the final analysis In any case we wont be hurt Corum observes Taking busmens holidays here Satur ¬ day will be Jack Kelly Lou Pondfield Judge Dooley Beans Latimer Gar Wood Dick Connell Dale Shaffer Jim Stewart Amory Haskell and Don Ross along with former track execs John Clark and John Morris George Humphrey U S Am ¬ bassador Lodge Ohios Gof ONeil and Senators Talmadge and Capehart also plan to attend Along with Ben Fairless chair ¬ man of U S Steel Robert Coca Cola Woodruff 19 members of the board of Vanderbilt University the sports and thea ¬ trical personalities Susan Hayward Rocky Marciano Jimmy Durante Jim Norris Jack Kearns and restaurateurs Diamond Jim my Moran and Toots Shorr The King Ranchs J Howard Rouse was a visitor and reports the 1946 Triple Crown winner Assault is enjoying a life of ease at the vast Texas estate Also that the new arrivals by High Gun his first foals are pleasing individuals CoL Phil T Chinn motored from Lexington and declares for Bold Ruler Anent Gen Dukes chances he said I never knew a change of shoes to cure a hoof injury in 48 hours Shown a clipping of our recent blurb about the directive against the military band parti ¬ cipating Derby Day U S Sen Thurstpn Morton writes I too am very much dis ¬ appointed about the ruling which the De ¬ fense Department made concerning partici ¬ pation of the Armed Services in the festivi ¬ ties on Derby Day I am trying to get the Defense Department to reconsider its posi ¬ tion It is probably too late to do anything this year but I hope we can work out some ¬ thing for the future
