The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-16

POLES George Krehbiel, turf
editor Of the Detroit News, will now
take o few bows from fellow writer's
In place Of the boos he was handed
every time he showed UP at one OF
the big racing events, A few days
ago Krehbiel became the leading
winner among racing writer's when
his own colt Golden Man won
$500 stakes race at the Detroit
Fair Grounds ). One Of the
aspects Of the passing Of Andrew
Jackson Joyner, dean Of American
trainers, which was commented
upon by many horsemen was that
he didn't live to see o son or daugh-
ter Of Eight Thirty get to the races.
Joyner was the man behind the
superb handling Of the George D.
Widener runner and for that rea-
son the horse was often called "a
horseman's horse" His get will be
eligible to race in 1915. The
Thoroughbred Records suggestion
Of O "Keeneland Sales Stakes" to be
run at the Keeneland race course
annually for horses sold at the an.
nual auctions there has unusually
interesting possibilities. For in
stance, 1t would be real spectacle
to see the highest priced yearlings
Of this summer In race as 1-year-
olds. On the other hand, such Is the
fortune Of horse racing, that the
contention in such race might
well narrow down to the horse
which commanded the highest price
and the Cinderella" which went
for the proverhial song Pros
pective buyers at the two day year.
nngs sales at the Meadow Brook
Club on Long Island on September
81 and % will be particularly
watchful when the signment Of
the Blue Ridge Farms Is offered. 1t
was from this establishment that
two Of the most prominent bargain
horses Of recent years came. They
were Market wise and Marriage,
bred by the late Admiral Cary T.
Grayson. :. It was just about this
time Of the racing year that the
annual contest between Florida and
California started in which each
state tried its hardest to get the
top horses Of the year for their re-
spective rich handicaps, the Wide
ner at Hialeah Park and the Santa
Anita Handicap at Santa Anita.
California got Whirlaway In the
Fall Of 194l but after trekking
across the mountains, Mr.. Long
tall arrived just few weeks before
Toto sneaked In on Pearl Harbor
and forced, among other things,
the abandonment Of racing In Call
fornia that winter. With the con-
cltlSion Of the race meetings at
Garden State Park and the Detroit
Fair Gorunds last Saturday two
more states, New Jersey and Michi-
gan, will say goodbye to the Thor
oughbreds until next summer.
These states have only one race
track each. {. . Turf writers in most
major league baseball cities are
good baseball fans. 1t. Colonel
G. v. Whitney has Juvenile daugh-
ter Of the great Top Flight. When
she made her first appearance
under colors there was some COM
ment about naming such well
bred filly so poorly, for she was
listed on the program as Bug Bug.
There Is a good explanation for this
as Bug Bug was one Of the points
In North Africa where Sonny"
Whitney was assigned as part OF
his overseas duty with the United
States Army Air Forces. It might
have been that Whitney saw an
Allied victory at this point which
pleased him as much as one Of the
racing triumphs Of Top Flight. =. :,
And speaking Of the war and names
Of race horses there is q youngster
named Velikie Luli, the name Of q
town which will be recalled as an
important point on the Russian
front. And then, too, r. Sterling
Clark has a stretch running young
ster which he named Smolensko:
the final 20" being added Just to
give 1t little flavor or perhaps to
reaassure the crowd that when the
horse got a "call" they weren't list
ening to a communique from Mos
COW. AS Of this week there are
eight race meetings being con-
Quoted on the North American con-
tinent. But only five Of them are
on the United States soil. Two are
in Canada and one in Mexico. !.
Although the exact total hasn't
been announced racing authorities
are certain that the $4,000, 900 mark
will be passed in war relief contribu-
lions from the race tracks in Amer
lea. This will stand up well against
last years effort which was In ex-
cess of three million but more
tracks were operating in 1912 than
this year. It's Just that the tracks
that are running this year are do
ing more, or rather that the people
| who like racing are turning out In