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Judges Stand By Charles Hatton * One-Eyed King Excels on Turf at Pimlico Guggenheim Horse Gains Self Confidence Sea Charger Colt Wins Beards Approval PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md„ May 11. — The Dixie has had better fields. Indeed it attracted the first "million dollar field," in 1942 when Whirlaway won it. But not even that renewal was a prettier race than Saturdays, which had the esthetic appeal it was run on the grass, an exciting lot of togetherness in the stretch drive, and an immensely popular result. When Harry Guggenheims One-Eyed King and "Yacca Zacca" detached themselves from Oligarchy and Mystic H. as the finish rushed up, *the chalk players let out a roar of approval that must have been perfectly audible across the 22 miles of kche-sepiack bay, as the Indians called the Chesapeake, a feat possible only in the sign language. Though he was born with only one optic, One-Eyed King has gained the confidence to overcome this handicap and develop into a useful grass horse. He is about the best one-eyed horse we can recall since Jim Dandy or Sandy Beall. And in the Dixie he-equalled St. Vincents mile and three furlongs course record of 2:15% carrying 120 pounds. Not long ago he won the Donn Handicap back at Gulfstream. Now he is heading for Chicago, where Ben Lindheimer makes a point of having a great many turf races. Our own Dixie preference, Pop Corn, could not beat a fat man kicking a barrel up a hill Saturday, though he had just broken a local track record. Or possibly we should say because he had just broken a record, for it now is a question if he is constitutionally equipped to recover so soon after making such a drain on his natural resources. -When he „ was not jumping shadows, he was climbing and finally he gave it up and turned loose of the bit. Nevertheless it was all very picturesque, and profitable for most of the 15,122 present. Display Homegrown Yearlings Preakness week began prosaically enough Sunday with the annual exhibit of the MHBAs homegrown yearlings. Rigan McKinney, the old-time chase jockey, presented the. most symmetrical animal, a colt by Sea Charger whose Gothic lines appealed to Clarkson Beard? In all probability he will turn up in McKinneys consignment to this summers Saratoga sales. His sire is one Royal Charger who stayed, though a lot of people were betting he wouldnt the day we saw him "slam" his presumptuous rivals in the Irish St. Leger. Most of the Royal Chargers out of those rough bred mares the Irish farmers sent to him, at 0 a season, were stouter than his American progeny from mares of higher breeding and perhaps all too much refinement. Marking time today for the running of the Preakness Prep, the MJC is preparing to receive Chris Chenerys defaulting Derby favorite First Landing on Tuesday. He has been assigned three stalls in barn J, which suggests to Joe Kelly he still is a "Big Horse." Disappointed in the feeble powers of perception displayed by Univac and the Ouija board before the Derby, trainer J. H. "Casey" Hayes may consult the fortune tellers at Wednesdays Flower Mart for a line of First Landings chances. We shall let you in on the results if he crosses the palm. Notables to See Preakness Turf ana: Barclay Odell says box seats still are available directly on the finish line for the Preakness — next year — when it will be decided May 21. . . . Dem. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, the Presidents personal physician General Snyder, the Mexican Ambassador, Susan Hayward, Jackie Gleason, Jack Paar and „Gov. J. Millard Tawes s-s-s-sh will see this Preakness. ...» Ever so many track operators became self conscious about the finish poles on their courses after the Shoemaker incident in the 1957 Derby, identifying them conspicuously with bulls eyes and other ornamentation. Pimlicos has neon arrows. On midlands track posted a huge sign on the pole "This is it!" Shenandoahs Bob Leavitt topped Shoemaker. He erected a pole striped like a candy cane, not on the finish, but ten feet beyond it. Just to assure everybody rides his mount out we suppose. . . . Mrs. William duPonts Tempted, who won the Delaware Handicap for her runningmate Endine last summer, will try to win it for herself this year. Beat a lively field at Garden State the other day. . . . Mrs. George Gordon Moore, Ikes sister-in-law, is expected to attend next week end. And please do not intercept her en route to the windows. George Dixon relates Colonel Moore gave her 0 to bet on Christie Lee for him at Shenandoah the other night. She was heading for the windows when she met a friend. They talked. And talked. You know the rest. Christie Lee won and paid 0.20 and the Col.s Lady was looking out the window. . . . Scores of Baltimoreans, no more than normally crazy about horses, were at Pimlico to see the Preakness works during the sma hours on the week end. R. S. Lytle returns from Gotham with some peppermint candies for Sundown n. The 62-year-old Los Angeles oil man has a fast sprinter if nothing more in the Hyperion colt. ... It may amuse Lord Derby and others of Hyperions familiars that Tomy Lee, who is inbred to him, shares his curiosity about planes, birds and any other animate objects overhead. Frank Childs notes that Tomy Lee is "a regular plane spotter." Like Hyperion he will stand transfixed many minutes watching one until it vanishes over the horizon.
