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■ Summer Handicap At Detroit Today By Conscript and Fourteen Others Meet in Route Race; Splendid Supporting Card DETROIT, Mich., June 25.— Three outstanding attractions, any one of which might well serve as the feature offering. are scheduled for decision at the Detroit Pair Grounds tomorrow. The 0,000 Summer Handicap, richest of the trio of headliners, attracted no less than 15 potential starters, while the ,500 Hamilton Handicap, a three-year-old sprint, drew the nominations of seven top-flight performers. Two-year-olds, nine of the fleetest youngsters quartered here, are to meet in the ,000 Mata Hari Handicap at five furlongs. Local track officials were making last minute preparations today to entertain one of the largest crowds of the current season for the half-holiday sport. Racing secretary-handicapper Charles P. Henry has assigned the top weight of 120 pounds in the Summer to A. F. Walls hard-hitting By Conscript. That good son of Pharamond II. and Bloodroot has accounted for major honors in the Parents Creek, Motor City and Mackinac Handicaps and he presently is in splendid condition. Trainer Ray Grundy also will saddle Walls Bonnie Andrew, a recent victor here, for the one mile and a sixteenth test, and the pair is expected to go postward well supported. Beezley Stable Sends Two Postward Mrs. Earl H. Beezleys silks are to be carried in the Summer by the French-bred star. Grasshopper II. and No Wrinkles, crack three-year-old recently acquired from Milky Way Farm. Grasshopper II. won a convincing triumph in his last local start, accounting for the Blue Grass Handicap over the Lewis turf course, while No Wrinkles also visited the winners circle after trouncing a good band of three-year-olds in the Lornoult Handicap. Grasshopper II. is asked to shoulder 115 pounds and No Wrinkles will answer the bugle under an impost of 108 pounds. Completing the field for the Summer will be such good ones as Grand Stables improved Baruna, 114 pounds; Circle S Stables Hysterical, 113, and Florizan Beau, who triumphed in the Inaugural Handicap. 108; Ellstrom Brothers Col. Teddy, 114; Continued on Page Five Detroit Track Features Summer Handicap Today By Conscript, Fourteen Others Vie in Mile and Sixteenth Race Continued from Page One Mrs. H. P. Bonners Valdina Paul, 109: Edward Talberts One Link, 112; C. A. ONeil, Jr.s Panbroom, 103; W. S. Paynes Some Man, 107; Lt. Theodore D. Buhls Sweep Swinger, 108; Dearborn Stables j Samborombon, 112, and J. Warfield Rodg-! ers Dove Pie, assigned 105 pounds. Uove Pie, one of the best in the current three- i year-old division, started in the Kentucky j Derby this spring and captured the ,000 Col. Alger Memorial here on May 31. Topping the field for the Hamilton will be Charles T. Fishers Dixiana-bred Amber Light, who has been working well of late and showing signs of the class that brought him victory in the 1943 renewal of the Louisiana Derby. In that event. Amber Light raced gamely to down Calumet Farms Ocean Wave by a scant margin and the son of Pilate and Red Sunset has been accorded the post of honor by Henry with a weight assignment of 117 pounds. Rounding out the band of three-year-olds named to oppose Amber Light are J. L. McKnights pair, Lady Rebecca and Eugene; Lt. Buhls Likeasnot, Mrs. Bonners Careless, H. C. Hatchs Grandpal and Precipitous, a representative of W. W. Nay-lor. Precipitous and Likeasnot are each asked to carry 114 pounds and the former was an impressive winner of the Mirror of Heaven Handicap, while the latter earned top honors in the ,000 Detroit Handicap. Valdina Senora, who is to race under the colors of Cragin Sc Hoist, is high weight in the Mata Hari and she will shoulder 114 pounds. Next in the estimation of Henry are Hirschstein and Wyatts Good Going and J. G. Mayers Mon-o-Haste, each under 113 pounds. I. J. Collins Playbob, Neville Dunns Firepower, J. P. and L. F. Holtons Jo Agnes, Mrs. George C. Whites Diamond ~ i Dick, David Fergusons Wise Colors and Bomar Stables Scots Bill, complete the field for the juvenile dash. Post time for the first race at the Fair Grounds on Saturday will be 2:15 p. m. Eastern War Time.
