Leavenworth Smart Lincoln Winner; Citations Foes Arrive for Jersey: Gasparilla, Bovard Faraway Check In; Garden State Parks Rich Three-Year-Old Fixture May Bring Out Field of Six, Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-28

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Leavenworth Smart Lincoln Winner Citations Foes Arrive for Jersey Gasparilla Bovard 4 Faraway Check In InGarden Garden State Parks Rich ThreeYearOld Fixture May Bring Out Field of Six SixGARDEN GARDEN STATE PARK Camden N J May 27 Three of the five rivals prepared to engage Calumet Farms redoubtable Citation in Saturdays 50000 Jersey Stakes arrived at Garden State Park this morning morningA A J Sacketts Gasparilla and Glen Riddle Farms Faraway both reached Gar ¬ den State Park this morning arriving by van from Belmont Park without incident Bovard who has been training for Satur ¬ days one mile and a quarter feature over the Delaware Park track was vanned in from the Stanton course shortly before noon Two other adversaries tf M Roe blings Macbeth and William G Helis Sal ¬ magundi already are on the grounds as is Citation who arrived early yesterday from Belmont Park ParkCitation Citation lost little time in becoming ac ¬ climated to his new surroundings Despite a rather heavy fog which blanketed this area early today the fleet son of Bull Lea Hydroplane n was galloped once around the track and then was walked about the paddock and walking ring ringBreeze Breeze Calumet Star Today TodayTrainer Trainer H A Jimmy Jones who super ¬ vised Citations transfer from New York and will saddle the colt on Saturday said that Citation probably will be breezed about fiveeighths tomorrow tomorrowSalmagundis Salmagundis one mile drill between races yesterday afternoon in which he was clocked in 145 hard held indicated that owner Helis fine threeyearold is as fit as human hands can make him A short blowout tomorrow will conclude Salma ¬ gundis preparation for the race raceGasparilla Gasparilla worked very impressively on Tuesday at Belmont Park and from all in ¬ dications needs a little more in the way of work The Max Hirschtrained sopho ¬ more also may be given a blow out to ¬ morrow morrowIf If the above field remains intact Cita ¬ tion will engage the second largest number of rivals mustered against him this season He will be meeting Faraway Macbeth Salmagundi and Gasparilla for the first firstContinued Continued on Page Three Three of Citations Jersey Foes Arrive at Garden State StateContinued Continued from Page One Onetime time since launching his sensational three yearold career careerUnlike Unlike the Kentucky Derby and Preak ness Stakes which is run at scale weights Citation must concede weight to several Jersey Stakes rivals Salmagundi winner of two rich events at Santa Anita will be levelly weighted with Citation under 126 pounds but Bovard and Macbeth and Gas parilla will carry only 114 pounds while Faraway gets in with 111 pounds


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