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Argentina Size of Juvenile Fields Increasing By HUGH LYALL Our Buenos Aires Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, Argentina. The large army of two-year-olds in training is now coming to hand, after months of patient work by the training fraternity; consequently fields are rapidly increasing in size. Entries for the maiden two-year-old events at Palermo and San Isidro over the week end were big; the two races for colts each attracted 16 runners while 17 faced the starter in the five-furlong sprint for fillies. Unfortunately Saturdays event for colts, over six furlongs, was marred by what might have been a very serious accident. On rounding the bend for home, the second favorite, Episodio, fell. Close behind him were Gesto and Quiroga. They also came" down. Episodio was unhurt, but his jockey. G. Perez, was badly bruised and was taken to the hospital. Gesto broke a leg and had to be destroyed, although his jockey, N. Lugrin, suffered nothing more than a se-vere shaking-up. Quiroga was not injured, but veteran jockey F. R. Quinteros fell on his head, was removed unconscious, and his condition declared to be grave. At the moment of writing he is reported to be slightly better but not yet out of danger. The race was won by the moderately supported Tecreo Combo Tamaroa from a big outsider, Aparente, in 1:11. The favorite, Key Claro, ran moderately and finished fifth. He is one of the high-priced sons of Claro sold at last years two-year-old sales. Three favorites were successful in the other races on the San Isidro program; and outstanding among them was Malambo, an English-bred son of Owen Tudor and Phila-mela. He won the Eduardo Casey classic five furlongs by one and one-half lengths from Fantomas in the excellent time of :56. The latter, carrying 131 pounds, was conceding five pounds weight for age. While it is true that the winner did not beat very much there were only four runnels , he won so convincingly after indulging Fantomas with the lead that he may be considered one of the best sprinters now in training here. Last Sundays 25 de Mayo classic saw the downfall of yet another aspiring-three-year-old champion, when Velasquez, starting favorite, finished fourth in a field of eight. He was top weight 132 lbs. and the burden proved to be too much for him over the tiring furlong journey. The winner was Asterisco Aventrug Arribena who in March and April was running in moderate company over distances ranging from seven to nine furlongs. A fortnight ago he showed he could stay when he won the 12 furlongs handicap at Palermo, carrying 112 pounds, in 2:34. His burden was 117, and his time over the much longer distance was 3:44and. Not often do these excessively long races provide many thrills; but this was an exception to the rule. Registro went off in front and was soon challenged for the lead by Bungalam. They changed places twice but when the mile post was reached Registro had had enough. Bungalam was making the running with Asterisco second, Avro third, Ibicue fourth, and Velasquez fifth, followed by Apronte Registro, and Egeria. On reaching the final bend, Asterisco passed Bungalam and, once in the home stretch, ran away from his rivals. Then his saddle slipped and Bungalam came up again on the outside. The last furlong was exciting in the extreme, but J. Caballero rode an excellent race and was still a short head to the good when the winning post was reached. But it was a very near thing! The Black Prince race for two-year-old colts attracted 16 of the 29 entries and did nothing except to throw form into confusion. Only five of the field carried any real money and the winner, Basti-mento Burudun Merida was the most lightly supported of the five. The favorite, paying less that 2-to-l, was Zurrido, who, a fortnight ago, had finished second to Panji in a field of 23. Behind him then was Copo H., frequently placed recently, Continued on Page Fifty-On Report From Argentina By HUGH LYALL i Continued from Page Eleven who on April 28 was seven lengths -in front of Banal who finished second to Basti-mento last week. Zurrido made the rurining from Bas-timentdT followed by ZWzagan, Stuart, Banal and Caboto, with the rest strung out behind. The two leaders entered the home stretch almost on a line, but as they drew nearer to the disc it was -apparent that Bastimento had the measure of his rival, who stopped to nothing 200 yards from home. Banal and Stuart came up and Zurrido was relegated to fourth place. The seven furlongs were covered in 1:30. Three-quarters of a length separated first from second and second from third. The pace, incidentally, was fast throughout. The first two and one-half furlongs were run in :29 and the first five furlongs in :59. Incidentally, the connections of Zurrido made no secret of their confidence that he would win and win easily. They even spoke optimistically of the future classics! Well, optimism is the privilege of all racing men!
