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Judges Stand By Charles Hatton I Toluene Proves Class of Maryland Fillies Now Pimlico Will Have a Mothers Day Coming Sophomore Events Cast Shadows PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 14. The dear old MJC very thoughtfully planned a crowded agenda of high class racing and other divertissements, including a flower how, for visitors to Baltimore during Preakness Week. One thing it certainly did not planwas the rain which came bucketing down Wednesday But whateverthis meteorological contretemps may have marred, it could not have mattered less to , Max Glucks undersized filly Tp-luene, who went through the sloppy going as if she were equipped with an outboard motor and beat her field pointless in the Black Eyed Susan. She paraded to the post as the only stakes winner in the lot, and she still was when they pulled up. Trainer Eddie Yowell was so pleased he announced the 58 Marguerite winner will forthwith go to New York, to throw down the gauge to Hidden Talent, Quill and others of the easts Oaks for fillies. If it interests you, Toulene, whom Gluck purchased privately from H. H. Polk, is by Hill Prince out of the Dogat mare Dynamite II., who herself never won but has had nothing but winners. Some of her rivals had raced in claimers and had pedigrees that were a handwriting on the-wall. If the Black Eyed Susan made a sort of "ladies day" of the midweek program, the Powder Puff Preakness here Saturday burgeons along the lines of "Mothers Day:" Four experienced exercise girls, all mothers, are among the jockeys in this 5 furlongs, the only regulation race for equestriennes in America. It is programmed for about 12:15 Saturday. Mrs. Doris Ann Riley, who has two children and won this dash last year, will try again, riding Joe Nechamkins Friendly Ellen. Mrs. Joyce Bachner, the runner-up in 58, is administering the eight-year-old Adages weak knee in an effort to get him to the gate. Powder Puff Contestants And from Chicago comes Mrs.- Joan Bencivenga, who plays the feminine lead in Calumets card of exercise girls. She missed the Powder Puff Preakness last spring for a fairly obvious reason, as she has a year old son. Mrs. Bencivenga gallops On-and-On, a circumstance that has touched off a dark rumor that the Joneses, having missed the Preakness itself, now plan to run On-and-On in the Powder Puff version. Actually Mrs. Bencivenga rides Vetalee. Even Peter Christian Barrie could not make up On-and-On to stand in for Vestalee. Mrs. Helen Crews, another early riser who has raised two children and galloped hundreds of horses these last six "years, probably will ride one of the Flamingo Farm string trained by her husband. The Powder Puff Preakness has a trophy and 00 divided equally between the owner and jockey. A most perceptive "race reader" is Eugene Schwartz, who is chief of Triangle Publications sleepless staff of dockers. He and his minions are minioning around daily at tracks from coast to coast while you are cast in the sheets. In the course of casual converse he was briefing us just now on the latest incidental intelligence on Tomy Lee and Silver Spoon. The independently wealthy Tomy Lee was on the Hollywood track Wednesday for the first time since the Derby, galloping around with a pony. Tomy was relaxing on his laurels pending time to resume work for the Hollywood Derby on June 27, a race that could exert a profound influence on three-year-old standings, engaging as it does the Turner colt, Sword Dancer, Silver Spoon and Royal Orbit. It follows the Belmont, June 13, by two weeks. Silver Spoon No Working Girl Silver Spoon has not worked since the Kentucky Derby. But her regimen recalls sedentary aspects of the preparedness program in bureaucratic Washington. She did remarkably little work before the Louisville race. That is her peculiar way of getting ready. She could be in intensive training for something and only Bob Wheeler would know this. Nature fashioned Silver Spoon along generous lines, as if taking a personal enthusiasm in the task. What a built! But she is no "working girl." Oscar Otis tells us owner Whitney was frankly amazed at Santa Anita when she squandered a stakes field without benefit of a work in a week. Thetheory here is that if Silver Spoon could train objectively as the colts, she would give them silicosis chasing her around all season. She appeared short in her Louisville races, and no reflection on Wheeler. We cannot recall when another conditioner has acquitted himself so well with a filly who requires such patient, delicate, sensitive handling. Barring mishap she will reward him again, we feel sure, as she is furnishing out her frame with maturity. Turf ana: Sword Dancer is referred to as "a little horse." Specifically, he is 15 hands and weighs 950 pounds, thus is not even what horsemen call, ambiguously "a big, little horse." But he is "all horse." Several columns ago, we said Willie Shoemaker claimed foul against the wrong horse riding Correlation in the Preakness. The foul was claimed by Arnold Kirkland on Hasseyampa. It is at such times we envy the Schweppes man his beard. Excuse us to pieces. . . . Ten tiny, natural shoulder stands have appeared in Continued on Page Seventeen JUDGES STAND . By CHARLES HATTON I : . j Continued from Page Five j 1 the innerfield, as bleechers to convenience some of thePreakness crowd. . . . Royal j Orbits disguise or colors or whatever they are include a red sheepskin noseband, which first distinguished, then was dis- tinguished by, Silky Sullivan. . . . The 72,000 unofficially reported at the Downs Derby Day is rather challenging, though well under the usual 100,000 estimated, j American racegoers have adopted the Greek philosophy. They do nothing in excess, unless tney are crazy about it. ... 1 Stymie. Eight Thirty and Battlefield were j inbred to Fair Play. Few horses get, over a thing like that. . . . Rain spoiled the Flower Mart, annually a must on the agenda of feminine Preakness week visi-I tors. I
