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, , i • , ; , ; ; ; ; • i ■ : ■ ] ■ [ ; — * Eight Fillies Seek Creole Maid Purse Boomdeay, Red Camelia and Pel I a Vie for Major Honors In Belmont Feature Offering BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 21. — The Creole Maid Purse is the salient offering at Belmont Park on Monday, and this mile and one-sixteenth event brings together eight fillies recruited from the three-year-old ranks. Seven of the lot are nominees for the Coaching Club American Oaks, to be contested over the week-end. The sole exception in Mondays test is Latest Vogue, owned by Russell A. Firestone. The Creole Maid carries an overnight purse value of ,000 and, under the conditions, penalties and allowances ere enforced or granted. Winners of a three-year-old race at one mile or over, or a sum of ,000, are penalized four pounds, or, of two such races, eight pounds. Non-winners of ,500 are allowed four pounds. The field for the filly offering is a good one and, in addition to Latest Vogue, is * composed of the Greentree Stables Boomdeay, Joe W. Browns Red Camelia, the Maine Chance Farms Admired, John C. Clarks Plunder, Hal Price Headleys Pella, Ogden Phipps Flying Ship and Brecken-ridge Longs Loraine. Boomdeay is top weight with 116 pounds, and this miss is asked to concede from four to 17 pounds to her rivals. She looms up as the overnight choice, and has to her credit, although she failed to win, some impressive efforts this spring. Another factor that will be taken into consideration by the crowd is the presence of Ted Atkinson in the saddle. This alone will be a c strong factor in tipping the scales of favoritism. Boomdeay has raced against stake contention, and the weight she is assigned is not too great a burden. James to Ride - . _ . Another contender to be given serious consideration is Pella. This miss turned in a creditable performance in the recently contested Acorn Stakes, from which Nell K., from the Spring Hill Farm, emerged the winner. On the strength of that showing and with 112 pounds, the bulk of which will be Basil James, the Headley miss merits the runner-up position in point of public esteem. Red Camelia, owned by the New Orleanian, Joe W. Brown, slipped through on the inner rail in her most recent appearance to earn a length victory over some well-regarded junior misses. That race was a good one. She sped the distance, six furlongs, in 1:13% over a fast track. The longer route of Mondays offering appears to favor this fast finisher. Latest Vogue also has to her credit a , Victory over some representative performers. This took place in the seventh race last Monday. The Firestone miss, with Ovie Scurlock in the saddle, trounced Plunder by one and one-half lengths at one mile. She raced the distance in 1:38%, the first six furlongs in 1:12, for a driving score. She carried 115 in that test as against 112 on Monday. A return to that effort would make her a formidable factor. Flying Ship finished far back, last, as a matter of fact, in her effort on Friday. That race was over a sloppy track, but could be disregarded for better efforts over a fast strip, which, the Phipps filly has to her credit. Admired is a newcomer to the seasonal picture at Belmont Park, while Loraine is to be handled by apprentice Boland. Loraine was a driving winner of an overnight six-furlong test earlier in this meeting. The race was run over a good track. Admired raced at Keeneland and finished second to Lady Dorimar. Last Fridays race and Mondays offering should i give horsemen and fans a good comparative line on the forthcoming Coaching Club American Oaks, which is one of the yardsticks by which the champion from that age is judged.
