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Seven Hearts Returned To Training, Brown Says To Point Ace Handicap Performer For Late Summer and Fall Events HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., June 1.— The handicap division received a tremendous boost this afternoon when it was learned from J. Graham Brown, owner of the Brown Hotel Stable, that his stakes winner, Seven Hearts, has been returned to training and it is hoped that he will respond to the grind well enough to be ready for the big late summer and fall events for older horses. A winner of numerous handicaps in 1944, Seven Hearts went wrong and was forced out of training for more than a year. Included among his successes were the Westchester, Scarsdale, Riggs and the Frontier Handicaps, and so highly was he held in the esteem of the track handicapper that he carried top weight in all those victories. As a three-year-old he accounted for the Arkansas Derby and later suffered a foot fracture. A royally-bred son of Grand Slam — Lovie, he served a short season in the stud last spring, and so pleased was his owner by the results that he was mated to more than 20 mares this year. He has galloped daily at the farm in Kentucky for some time and thus far he has shown no signs of his former trouble. Graham also has the good three-year-old, Double Slam, who showed a great deal of promise at New Orleans and Oaklawn Park before meeting with a pair of mishaps that cost him a chance to start in the Kentucky Derby. In the Blue Grass Stakes the colt was slightly injured in the paddock and was declared out of the race, while in the Derby Trial he was hurt in the starting gate.
