The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-02

The July Fourth holiday, to be
observed on Monday July 5th, will
be marked by Thoroughbred racing
turning over its days to War Re-
lief at two ofthe country's most
important race courses. They are
the Empire City meetings. holiday
program run at Jamaica in New
York and Arlington Parks biggest
day at the Washington Park course
In Chicago . Chicago, the Windy
City, had three of the biggest wind
makers in racing all locally owned.
They are Whirlaway, bred and
owned by Warren Wright's Calumet
Farm; Count Fleet, bred and owned
by Mrs. John D. Hertz and Alsab,
owned by Mrs. Al SABBATH. All three,
however, were bred in the blue
grass country of Kentucky
Eastern Thoroughbred horse breed
ers will hold their annual yearling
sales at the famous Meadow Brook
Club on Long Island on September
21st and 22nd. The consignors to
this sale will comprincipally from
Maryland and Virginia with perhaps
q scattered few from New York,
New Jersey and Delaware. The
regular auction of Kentucky breds
will be held in Lexington (Ken-
tucky). Therefore, the one note
lacking in the Saratoga meeting to
be held at Belmont Park will be its
famous yearling sales If you
buy a race horse and don't like the
name Its original owner gave it then
1t will cost you 500 to change it to
something you prefer . . If there
was ever any question about sports
writer's being good reporters and
good writer's 1t should be disspelled.
The list of foreign correspondents
covering the action of American
forces abroad shows a constantly
increasing number of sportsWriters.
The latest to join the green-arm-
land boys Is Bob Considine of ms
Jockey Eddie Arcaro, still I'M
Ger suspension, keeps in trim by ex-
prcising horses in the early morn
ing hours and spends his free after
moons at the Polo Grounds, Yankee
tStadium or Ebbets Field. Arcaro is
II rabid baseball fan and often re-
fused riding mounts when particu-
Larry exciting game was in prospect
or the World Series happened to be
on When Devil Diver won the
Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct
last week it substantiated fourteen
month old conviction Of jockey Ed
die Arcaro. 1t was Eddie, just before
the Kentucky Derby of 1912, who
&elected Devil Diver when given his
choice between Devil Diver and
shut Out. and Shut Out won the
Derby. He chose Devil Diver again
the next week in the Preakness
when both were beaten. Now Devil
Diver Is the big horse in the Green
tree barns and Eddie is cooling his
heels on the ground under suspen-
sion Steeplechase jockey Miss
Judy johnson crashed the winners
circle for the first time last Satur-
day when she piloted the jumper
9t. Patrick's Day to triumph at
Kings Park near Montreal
Two cast-offs from fashionable sta
hles were in the money In front of
Whirlaway in the Equipoise Mile at
Arlington Park last Saturday. The
winner, Best Seller, was originally
. Col. Ed Bradley color-bearer and
Some Chance, third in the race, won
The Futurity at Belmont Park in
The silks Of Calumet Farm as two
year-old 1t. Col. G. v. Sonny
Whitney must have been pleased
over the result of the fifth race at
Jamaica on Empires opening day.
That one mile and a sixteenth
event, feature of the transferred
Empire City inaugural, was won by
water Pearl. The Colonel doesn't
own Water Pearl; he is not even