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Lively Battle Looms for Oaks Honors jFillies Will Tangle At Route Distance Pig Tails, Questvive and Emolument Ready to Give Miss Dogwood Hard Race LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 6.— Miss Dogwood, the fleet daughter of Bull Dog and Myrtle wood, who races in the interests of Brownell Combs, stands out boldly in the list of nominees for Saturdays running of the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs, but there are several others who threaten to give her a lively battle for honors in the ,000 run of a mile and a sixteenth. Three, for instance, who are conceded excellent chances of beating the Brownell Combs filly, are the Woolford Farms Pig Tails, Frank P. Letelliers Questvive and J. Kel Houssells Emolument. These horses ga*e evidence of their fitness when they finished one, two, three in the Rose of Sharon Purse Tuesday, and since all of them came out of this engagement unmarked, they are almost sure to be found in Saturdays feature. Pig Tails, who finished third to Miss Dogwood and Emol- -ument in the Colleens Purse last week, may have needed that race to put her on razor edge, for in the Rose of Sharon she displayed both speed and staying qualities that should stand her in good stead this week-end. Indications of Readiness As for Questvive and Emolument, they made up enough ground to indicate they will be right there fighting it out with the leaders over the increased distance of the Oaks. Emolument was making her third start since the Kentucky season began, and in each of them she closed in a manner to suggest she would perform better over a route greater than the seven furlongs at which she competed in the Rose of Sharon Purse. Another miss who might prove herself a factor in Saturdays stake is Zoroastra, owned by Johnson N. Camden, whose Lorraine won the Oaks in 1920. Zoroastra has been training excellently and may be reasonably expected to be included in Saturdays starting field. A few others who are being pointed for the Oaks are J. O. Keenes Halcyona, Mrs. A. N. Gelbs New Glory, Mrs. V. E. Smiths Sis Baker. J. C. and S. H. Stones Sissy Smith, and the Double H Ranchs Fillibeg.
