The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-07-07
TOla Rose EvenS HirSch Score
With Campbell, Whirlaway
Great Trainer
Differs With
HondicoppeF
On Attention
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Service Sports Editor

NEA 6GrVACG OpOEB EnGOT
New York, July All things be-
ing equal every horse race should
end In dead heat.
That is the prime object Of ev-
cry Handicapped and John B. Camp
bell, who matches them for The
Jockey Club, comes closer to sue
ceeding than any other official
While Jack Campbell is adjudged
the nations leading Handicapped,
trainers sometimes disagree with
him, too.
There was the withdrawal of Mrs.
Parker Corning's Attention from the
Butler Handicap at Empire City,
for example.
Max Hirsch believed Whirlaway
was getting the best Of it in the
weights prior to the Brooklyn
Handicap at Aqueduct In which Mr..
Longtail beat Swing and Sway by
length and o half, with Attention
the same distance behind the Green
tree speedster.
So when Campbell put two pounds
on each in the Butler, Hirsch with
drew Attention.
It must have been the source OF
great satisfaction to the famous
trainer to have taken the $4,000
front end with A. J. Sackett's light
ly-weighted plaster, lola Rose,
which was spotted 20 pounds by
the stretch burning Whirlaway.
JACK CAMPBELL MATCHES
HORSE AGAINST HORSE
While all respect Campbell, who
has been in racing for 81 years, not
few consider him better handi-
capper than racing secretary and
contend that in the former depart
ment that in the former department
he goes too much by assumption
and not enough on past perfor-
manceS.
Thine doesn't mean thing in
selecting a field" explains the 65-
year-old Campbell. Horses should
be judged by class and breeding
and not by how fast they run or
work. Horse against horse Is the
best method"
What Campbell means is that a
pound off a platter Is equal to 10
of a stake horse.
Campbell may pore for hours
over list for q cheap claiming
affair and then make UP a valu-
able stake race with hardy q glance.
After a field has been selected,
horses must be properly weighted
in order to make the finish as close
as possible. Many things can happen
to upset the handicapper's dope. A
horse may get away badly. Another
may be pinched off at the turn and
when he finally does get racing room
it's too late.
Horses are graded A, B and G.
In A are such as Whirlaway, Mar
ket Wise, Shut Out and Alsab.
They can run any distance under
any conditions. B takes in those
which run at certain distances and
pass up races for which they are
not suited. G covers the cheaper
selling splaters, the great majority.
AS a program usually has but one
stake, most OF CampbellS time Is
taken up by G steeds.
There has been considerable
criticism Of late as to the large
number Of short fields in New York,
but Campbell holds on brief with
the fault finders.
CAMPBELL UNCONCERNED
ABOUT SIZE OF FIELD
Racing should be run for the
public" he asserts 1T necessary
we throw out a dozen or SO horses
to get race. We have gone down
to four horses and If necessary will
60 to three to find a race"
To those critics who claim this
decreases the mutuel play, Camp
bell simply points to the record
handles in New York.
Jack Campbells business Is to
make races close.
He is largely to blame when you
get nipped in photo finish.