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- - , _ _ Bml ~ Irs ■■ ;£:. IlliSr* 1 JOSEPH SERIO, JR.— Sent out two winners yesterday at Pimlico, It Girl in the Breeders Stakes and Handy Man in an earlier event on the card. Thirteen Entered for Pimlico Oaks Wistful May Repeat Recent ] , Downs Win in Todays Race i Calumet Miss Again Faces t Tall Weeds, Lady Dorimar Duo at Mile and Sixteenth PIMLICO. Baltimore, Md., May 12.— The twenty-sixth running of the 0,000 Pimlico Oaks, a mile and one-sixteenth test for three-year-old fillies, features the pre-Preakness program at this historic course, and a bumper crop of 13 lassies have been named overnight to compete. Early calculations indicate that the race is an extremely wide-open affair, with Calumet Farms Kentucky Oaks heroine, Wistful, likely to carry the bulk of public support. The remainder of the field includes, Woodvale Farms tandem of Lady Dorimar and Tall Weeds; Brookmeade Stables team of Sunny Vale and Black Chiffon, Cortright Wetherills Raise You, Brookfield Farms Imacomin, John A. Manfusos Alluring, Crispin Oglebays Why the Rush, William G. Helis Delta Queen, Murlogg Farms Admired, S. A. Mason II.s Miss Dow and William S. Cottons My Celeste. Wistful, a chestnut daughter of the successful young stallion, Sun Again, has improved immensely following a juvenile campaign which saw her go postward only twice. In eight races this season she has won exactly one half of her appearances, the last outing resulting in an easy Kentucky Oaks triumph, in which she took the measure of, among others Lady Dorimar, Admired and Tall Weeds. Steve Brooks, who won the Derby with Ponder in what was his first mount astride the colt, will be up on Wistful for the first time tomorrow. Expects Improved Efforts Trainer Woody Stephens will have strong representation in Lady Dorimar and Tall Weeds. Lady Dorimar, a daughter of Our Boots, overcame early roughing to be third behind Wistful and The Fat Lady in the Kentucky race and is expected to offer serious contention. Tall Weeds, winner of three of her four races, as a Awo-year-old beat Wistful in her 49 debut only to turn in a dull effort while trailing in the Oaks. That race was not a true indication of her capabilities and that a much better effort is expected is best indicated by the switch by jockey Conn McCreary from Lady Dorimar to Tall Weeds for tomorrows engagement. Ovie Scurlock will ride the Haltal miss. Raise You, by Case Ace-Lady Glory, impressed as the outstanding New Jersey-bred juvenile of the 1948 season, during which she won four of her five endeavors and was third on the other occasion. Her stake triumphs included the Polly Drum-mond, Colleen and New Jersey Futurity, and earnings exceeded 0,000. She went sore rather early but was given an extended respite, which, apparently, has benefitted her greatly. Returning to competition at Havre de Grace, Raise You turned in a corking effort to be second to Danherst in a six furlongs which was accomplished in 1:11 flat. Raise You Brookfield Candidate Harry Isaacs home state Brookfield establishment seems well represented by the Heliopolis filly, Imacomin. Like Raise You, Imacomin proved quite proficient as a juvenile, earning in excess of 0,000 and scoring stake victories in the Rancocas and Worlds Playground. She has had a three-race sophomore campaign in New York this spring and was a factor in each engagement. Attempting to duplicate the feat of Brookmeades Chains in last weeks Dixie, trainer Preston Burch will saddle Sunny Vale and Black Chiffon in the Oaks. Sunny Vale has raced but once this season and was a fast-closing third to Nell K. and Imacomin in Jamaicas Prioress. Her two-year-old campaign netted four victories. Washingtonian John Manfuso has a fairly shifty filly in Alluring, who was a triple winner last season. , Admired was the winner of the Rock-[ ingham Juvenile Handicap last season but has failed to grace the winners circle in four starts this year. Her most recent out- ings saw her fourth in the Kentucky Oaks, beaten about 10 lengths. Trainer J. P. Jones, who brought up No- ble Impulse to establish a track record in winning this weeks Survivor Stakes, will endeavor to duplicate that feat with Why The Rush. The Helis stable, which missed Oaks honors in 1946 when Red Shoes took the decision from Earshot, will send forth a dead-fit colorbearer tomorrow in Delta Queen. . ! ■ . • ; . j ; ; [ 1
