In 1937, FDR, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Hirohito, and Chamberlain were the world leaders. Jack Nicholson and Colin Powell were born. The blimp known as the Hindenberg had gone down, and the aviatrix Amelia Earhart was lost at sea. Mailing a letter cost three cents, filling the gas tank ran about a buck. And Bing Crosby? Well, he was 39, hadn’t sung “White Christmas” yet, and hadn’t made his first “Road” picture. But he was a star. On the side, he liked golf and horses and pumped his money in both directions.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Isn’t He Clever is the most accomplished stakes runner in the Grade 3, $100,000 Jersey Shore for 3-year-old sprinters on Saturday at Monmouth Park. But that doesn’t make him a lock against five rivals.

A recent addition to the Steve Asmussen barn, Isn’t He Clever ran well at shorter distances early in his career, including a victory in the 6 1/2-furlong Riley Allison Futurity to conclude his 2-year-old campaign at Sunland Park.

He also has some success stretching out, winning the Borderland Derby before finishing second in the Sunland Park Derby.

A trio of 4-year-old fillies who began their racing careers in Europe could be live longshots in Saturday’s Grade 3 Robert Dick Memorial Stakes for fillies and mares.

The $200,000 Dick, to be contested at 1 3/8 miles on turf, and the $50,000 Oh Say for 3-year-old sprinters are the undercard stakes on a card headed by the Grade 2, $400,000 Delaware Oaks.

Trainer Tony Dutrow has won 21 stakes at Delaware Park over the past 19 years, including four that were worth $100,000 or more. He owns four wins in the local prep for the Delaware Oaks, but the top prize in the track’s premier race for 3-year-old fillies has always eluded him.

Balooga Bull has been perfect in six starts, with four stakes wins among his conquests. On Saturday, Balooga Bull will be facing what is by far his most important test to date as he stretches out to 1 1/16 miles in the $30,000 Harry Jeffrey for 3-year-olds at Assiniboia Downs.

The Harry Jeffrey is the local stakes prep for the $75,000 Manitoba Derby, which will be run over 1 1/8 miles Aug. 6, and it figures to go a long way in separating the pretenders from the contenders for Assiniboia’s most important race.

It Happened Again waited patiently on the outside of horses until upper stretch and then blew by a compact field of six older horses to win the $100,000 Golden Bear, one of six stakes on the Wednesday evening closing card of the Indiana Downs meet.

Running for trainer Tom Amoss for the first time, It Happened Again was unhurried while the field set relatively slow fractions of 25.06 seconds, 50.12, and 1.14.31 in the 1 1/16-mile race. When jockey Leandro Goncalves shook the reins at the 6-year-old gelding, he responded and drew off to win by six widening lengths.

Welcome Dance and Seanchai raced one-two throughout Wednesday’s $50, 125 Walking in Da Sun Stakes for 3-year-old fillies and the order of finish never changed in the 1 1/16-mile turf race.

Welcome Dance ($6.60), allowed to set comfortable fractions of 49.34 seconds and 1:14.42, scored by 1 ½ lengths while completing the distance on a firm course in 1:44.91.

Seanchai, the slight 2-1 favorite, held off the large charge of Zucchini Flower by a neck for second.

AUBURN, Wash. – Gentleman’s Red profiles as the horse to beat Friday in the feature race at Emerald Downs. The $7,500 claiming sprint for 3-year-old fillies is the sixth race on a seven-race card that kicks off at 6 p.m. Pacific, and Gentleman’s Red, dropping in class following a third-place effort in an open $12,500 claimer, is likely to be the betting favorite in an eight-horse field.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – It is tough to separate the eight older horses running in a $15,000 claiming race that will serve as Friday’s feature at Hastings. The 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds and up goes as race 6 on a seven-race card that begins at 7:15 p.m. Pacific.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Two days after Silver Max won the May 26 Arlington Classic, trainer Dale Romans suggested Silver Max might not return to Arlington until the Secretariat Stakes in August and that the Virginia Derby on July  21 at Colonial Downs might be a more likely goal than the American Derby here the previous weekend.