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. . —-4 Fairer Sex Clash In Oaks at Downs Miss Dogwood, Pig Tails, Emolument and Questvive Among Thirteen Entered LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 8.— The 68th annual running of the Kentucky Oaks, a feature as old as the Kentucky Derby and the Clark Handicap, will be staged at Churchill Downs tomorrow, and a bakers dozen three-year-old fillies are scheduled to take part in it. The race will be contested at a mile and a sixteenth, for a ,000 added prize and it promises to be a rousing battle from one end to the other. The four who stand out most prominently in this field of 13 are Brownell Combs Miss Dogwood, the Woolford Farms Pig Tails, J. Kel Houssels Emolument, and Frank P. Letelliers Questvive, with support also reported for Joseph E. Wideners Tribal Ruler and J. O. Keenes Halcyona. Miss Dogwood, a daughter of Bull Dog and Myrtlewood, promises to rule a slight choice here on the strength of her smart victory in the Colleens Purse last week. It was her first start of the year and she defeated, among others, Emolument and Pig Tails. Miss Dogwood compiled a splendid record last year during which she defeated Petrify in the Special Event at Keeneland and she is coming up to tomorrows test in tip-top condition. The Combs filly scored her Colleens Purse victory at only six furlongs, but she won in such convincing fashion that her supporters are confident she can handle the mile and a sixteenth of the Oaks. Won Colleens Purse Convincingly One who is almost sure to fancy the distance is Emolument, who seems to like to come from far back to press her challenges. She closed boldly in each of two engagements at Churchill Downs and there are many who think she has tomorrows ,000 fixture at her mercy. Questvive is another who should be at no disadvantage over a mile and a sixteenth, if her fast-closing second to Pig Tails in the Rose of Sharon Purse her a few days ago is any criterion. She was within a neck of the Woolford Farm filly at the end of the seven furlongs of that engagement, Emolument being just a nose farther back. Valdina Farms, which won the Oaks last year with Valdina Myth, is trying for its second straight success in the filly stake with Valdina Melia, who was left here es- Continued on Page Forty-Three. Thirteen of Fairer Sex Clash in Kentucky Oaks Miss Dogwood Probable Choice In ,000 Downs Attraction j; Continued from Page One pecially *or the race. The remainder of her stablemates have been shipped east, but she remained behind in charge of Roscoe Goose to indicate that her owner, Emerson F. Woodward, has faith in her ability to hold her own with the best fillies of her age now at Churchill Downs. Another feature of tomorrows racing is a handicap at six and a half fu:ion?s, which also should prove worthwhile . It drew a field of seven, including the rece :t winners Jack Twink, owned by Mr. A B. Letellier, and Enthrall, the property of Mrs. A. E. Spratt. Others scheduled to compete here are Smacked, Polymelior. Meggy, Raphael II. and Lums Pride. Smacked is top weight with 115 pounds. Eight events in all embrace the card and most of the others also will engage well-matched fields.
