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Princess Doreen Brings Out Bewitch Fighting Frank Equals Track Record TwelveOpposeCalumet Miss In 25000 Arlington Stake StakeChampion Champion TwoYearOId Filly of 1947 Faces Stern Task In Meeting Picnic Lunch Itsabet Miss Mommy Lea Lark And Silly Gyp in First Engagement in Over Two Months MonthsARLINGTON ARLINGTON PARK Arlington Heights 111 June 22 Calumet Farms inevitable onslaught toward the host of rich stakes offered dur ¬ ing1 the coordinated meetings at Arlington and Washington Parks begins tomorrow The famed devils red and blue silks of Warren Wright will be flown by the princess of the barn Bewitch in the seventh running of the Princess Doreen Stakes 25000 dash of six furlongs fashioned exclusively for threeyearold fillies which headlines a sparkling mid ¬ week program Bewitch will have 12 rivals in the Princess Doreen Acclaimed queen of the 1947 juvenile fillies by dint of eight consecu ¬ tive triumphs seven of which were stakes Bewitch has been kept on the sidelines for the best part of this sea ¬ sons campaign She succeeded in captur ¬ ing her lone start the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland but shortly thereafter she was placed on the inactive list because of leg trouble She responded bravely to treat ¬ ment however and here of late has en ¬ gaged in a series of impressive trials that it would seem has fitted her well for her return to competition competitionShowed Showed High Speed in Trial TrialBefore Before entraining here she stepped five eighths of a mile in 104 over the Belmont Park strip and she followed that move with a half in 47 a half in 50 and an ¬ other move at the same distance in 49 On Sunday she was asked for speed in her final serious move for the Princess Doreen and came through with a scintillating five eighths in 58 She went handily through ¬ out and was pronounced at her peak by those who witnessed the move moveIn In spite of her fine training moves and her established class Bewitch finds her ¬ self competing against a fast field in ¬ cluded in which is Charleton Clays Lea Lark Mrs H A Damms Reigh Belle Jo ¬ seph A Kroecks Blue Helen Mrs M Aber crombies Beaukiss Hal Price Headleys Loriot and Pelt Frederick W Hoopers Silly Gyp Dixianas Back Talk Mrs A M Durschs Anns Lee Brookfield Farms Its abet Mrs E E Dale Shaffers Miss Mom ¬ my and Mrs Moody Jolleys Picnic Lunch LunchFirst First of Filly and Mare Events EventsThe The Princess Doreen is the first of a series of events for fillies and mares ar ¬ ranged by executive director Benjamin F Lindheimer The stake last year was won by Dixianas Four Winds and in 1944 it was taken by the queenly Twilight Tear a member of the Calumet string stringOne One of Bewitchs most formidable foea will be Picnic Lunch the daughter of Re ¬ quested Hadapine She electrified the theContinued Continued on Page Three Princess Doreen Stakes Lures Bewitch Postward PostwardTwelve Twelve Oppose Calumet Filly In 25000 Arlington Fixture FixtureContinued Continued from Page One Oneclocking clocking fraternity only this morning when she stepped threeeighths of a mile in 33 on the main racing surface She accomplished her move without need of pressure and those who viewed the move were unanimous in the belief that shell be hard to beat She has not raced since May 29 at Garden State Park when she won Earlier in the season she finished second to Itsabet in the Prioress Stakes at Jamaica and in back of her were many ranking threeyearold fillies such as Alablue Scattered Blue Helen Inheri ¬ tance Anna Christie and others othersItsabet Itsabet of course must be reckoned with too She has been a speed specialist since last year and this season has at ¬ tained a peak of efficiency Among her most notable achievements were victories in the Colonial Handicap at Garden State Park the Prioress conquest and a score in the Wilmington Handicap in which she defeated older horses horsesShe She was given a short respite from hard training with Chicagolands filly and mare stakes in view and her trainer D W Kerns is well satisfied by the manner in which she has trained trainedThose Those who saw Miss Mommy flash her heels to a good field during the Lincoln FieldsatWashington Park meeting have not lost faith in the speedy daughter of Bull Dog Farmerette She had trained in exceptional fashion over the South Side course and her easy winning effort after being sidelined for several months was one of the highlights of the meeting Trainer H H Pete Battle is quite confident that Miss Mommy will give a good account of herself
