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Bashford Manor At Downs Course Phar Mon Seen as Favorite Of Thirteen Slated to Vie In Two-Y r ear-Old Offering CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 9. — The 1947 renewal and the forty-sixth running of he 0,000 Bashford Manor Stakes, traditional five-furlong dash for two-year-old colts and geldings, is to hold the spotlight tomorrow at the Kentucky Derby oval. When entries closed here this morning, 13 top flight youngsters from the original group of 114 nominations were named to contest the half -holiday feature and the race shapes up as one of the better juvenile offerings of the current season. Under the allowance conditions of the Bashford Manor, William Veenemans Phar Mon is to carry top weight of 127 pounds. Phar Mon, a quick son of Easy Mon and Penroyal, victor In the Hialeah Juvenile and Keenelands Lafayette Stakes, has trained exceptionally well for his Churchill Downs engagement and he Is to have the saddle services of Steven Brooks. Along with Phar Mon, Tiger Flash, a son of Tiger — Humane, is to go postward under Mrs. Veenemans colors and his impost is 122. Willie Lee Johnson will ride Tiger Flash, according to trainer Warren Gale Douglass and the Veeneman entry undoubtedly will answer the bugle favorite. Lenoils Trials Impressive Madison Stock Farms home-bred Lenoil, who graduated in New Orleans during the Fair Grounds meeting and then shipped to Kentucky and won two races, is not so fashionally bred as some of his rivals, but he, nevertheless, has shown sufficient speed to be rated dangerous. Lenoil will take up 122 pounds and his morning trials have been very much on the fast side. W. J. Waldens Circus Clown is another promising youngster that must be accorded an excellent chance in the week-end head-liner and his best effort here was a smart triumph over Tiger Flash in the Black Toney Purse. The Walden colt also defeated a fair field in Keenelands Brook-dale Purse and gave Calumet Farms Be- Continued on Page Six Bashford Manor Renewal To See Phar Mon in Action Continued from Page One witch a sharp tussle in the Thoroughbred Club Dinner Purse, bowing to the fast Bull Lea miss by a neck margin. Jockey Al Bodiou is to guide Circus Clown in the Saturday dash. William Mikels home-breds Hypostyle and Hypothesis also get in the Bashford Manor under 122 pounds burden and, should they race to their early season form may prove keen factors. Augustus and Nahms Loujac, a winner at Churchill Downs on the inaugural day program and second to Mealso in the Broomstick Purse, probably will start in tomorrows feature. Loujac will take up 122 pounds, and others with like assignments are Henry Forrests Cotton Joe, Murlogg Farms improved Gee Whiz, and Prank P. Letelliers Scipio. Miller, Kennedy and Wil-kersons representative in the week-end stake is Big Ditch, who ran second to Dix-ianas Shy Guy in the Gallant Fox Purse; J. Howard Rouses Mr. Kilroy, fourth in the same race, and Thomas B. Cromwells surprise entrant, Northcote, who is to make his racing debut. The latter trio, all non-winners, are to shoulder 117 pounds each. Chief supporting event on the card will be the Pensive Handicap, six and a half furlongs, for three-year-olds and upward, matching eight better-than-average sprinters. J. Howard Rouses quick Three Dots, who has been working cleverly, is high weight under 120 pounds, and Valley View Farms Super Wolf is assigned 117 pounds. O. F. Woodwards Sir Sprite, 116; Shady Brook Farms Merrymarch, 109; Henry Ti-kulskis Bobs Pick, 108; Milton Shagrins Darby Dimout, 110, and the Bennett Creech-trained entry, Mrs. Reid Lugin-buels Sugar Beet, 105, and Mrs. A. M. Creechs Sid Play, 100 pounds, complete the field for the secondary attraction.
