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Coaching Club Oaks Draws Eleven Walkie Talkie Earns Nose Decision Watermill Choice In 50000 Stake StakeBelmonts Belmonts ThreeYearOld Filly Test Also Brings Out Scattered and Challe Anne AnneBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y June 1 The potential ancestresses of the thoroughbred stars of the future vie to ¬ morrow in the thirtysecond running of the Coaching Club American Oaks a 50 000 test at a mile and three furlongs Eleven have been named overnight for this searching test for threeyearold fillies and the erratic performances of this years crop make it a wideopen affair affairGeorge George D Wideners Watermill winner of the Acbrn last week will probably be the favorite with Eddie Arcaro in the saddle Her chief rivals appear to be a pair of winners of earlier Oaks events staged in the hinterlands These are Fred L Flan ¬ ders Challe Anne winner of the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs and King Ranchs Scattered laureate of the Pimlico Oaks OaksThe The others in this edition of the Oaks are C V Whitneys Mackinaw and Dusty Legs A C Ernsts Alablue Belair Studs My Emma and Ogden Phipps Flitabout Mrs John Hertzs Banish Jaclyn Stables Pigreeny and Apheim Stables Belle Heloise HeloiseDivision Division Wide Open at Present PresentWhile While several of the Oaks candidates have showed speed and a degree of stam ¬ ina none has been able to dominate the division as did such earlier winners as Cleopatra Prudish Edith Cavell Nimba Bateau Top Flight Black Helen High Fleet Level Best Vagrancy or Twilight Tear As a matter of fact a victory tomor ¬ row would not necessarily indicate suprem ¬ acy in the division for Harmonica who won last year for the late John J Watts and captured the Suburban for Arnold Hanger only yesterday was ranked behind But Why Not Snow Goose and Cosmic Msisile who followed her under the wire in the Oaks at the end of the 1947 season seasonWatermill Watermill led most of the way in the Acorn being passed by Alablue at the half ¬ way mark and coming on again to score by two lengths while Pigreeny was an ¬ other three lengths away in third place and Scattered the favorite turned in a dismal effort finishing fifth At Pimlico Scattered scored with ease over Challe Anne who came back to be a creditable second to the older Conniver here last week Incidentally Willie Garner who rode her in the Kentucky Oaks came in from the Midwest to pilot Challe Anne tomorrow tomorrowThe The Whitney pair are rather forlorn hopes Mackinaw finished last in the Acorn while Dusty Legs finished almost seven lengths behind Challe Anne at a mile and a furlong here in the race won by byvonnnuea vonnnuea on Page Three Coaching Club American Oaks Attracts Eleven at Belmont BelmontContinued Continued from Page One OneConniver Conniver Trainer Jim Fizsimmons who saddled Adeilweiss Vagrancy and Hypnotic to win earlier runnings of the Oaks also appears up against it with My Emma and Flitabout who have shown nothing to justify stakes pretensions pretensionsBelle Belle Heloise is a wellbred halfsister to Tintagel and other speed horses but has failed thus far to live up to the promise she showed last season Banish raced with no great success in California CaliforniaAlablue Alablue is a hardhitting and reason ¬ ably consistent filly but may find the journey a little long She beat Watermill at seven furlongs in a race before the Acorn that the Widener filly probably needed as it was her first start of the year but tired at the end of the Acorn at a mile mileThe The Oaks which is the sixth event is followed by the 5000 Semaphore Purse an allowance test at a mile that is to mark the reappearance of C V Whitneys First Flight champion 2yearold of 1946 First Flight has been training splendidly but meets some sharp horses in Gold Bull i Trilby Mangohick Bullet Proof and Jin ¬ gle Jangle i i i i Jti v jt i t ifo
