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Wistful Favored Among Fifteen Fillies Seeking Coaching Club American Oaks The Fat Lady, Nell K., Pella, Gaffery, Loraine in Belmont Route Stake for Sophomores BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N.Y., May 27. The 33rd running of the Coaching Club American Oaks will be presented at Belmont Park tomorrow afternoon. This searching test of a mile and three furlongs for three-year-old fillies carries an added endowment of 0,000 added. Fifteen were named overnight for the offering which ranks among the outstanding fixtures for fillies in the country. The field is by far the biggest named for the test and, if all start, "the gross value will be in excess of 7,000, while to the winning owner, less nominating and starting fees, a purse of 9,200 will accrue. The starting field is recruited from the best of that age and division in training and brings together junior misses who have raced their way to fame in all sectors of the country. The weight assignments are equal with all asked to carry 121 pounds for, in this fixture, but one allowance is granted, five pounds to maidens. A throwback to the inaugural running in 1917, when the late James Butlers Wistful was returned the winner, appears in the x making tomorrow. The Calumet Farm stable will be represented by it ace three-year-old filly, Wistful, and this daughter of Sun Again and Easy Lass shapes up as the popular choice of the field. The Calumet star has to her credit successes in the Kentucky and Pimlico Oaks. She will be ridden by Steve Brooks, who for the present is riding the crest of the wave at the Nassau County course. Wistful has not been seen under colors since her successful foray at Baltimore, but in that outing she galloped away from her opposition. Her training here, while not on the sensational side, has been sound and trainer Jimmy Jones pronounced her as fit as the proverbial fiddle for the test. Cosinsus of opinion places the Calumet miss as the favorite with the stoutest contention expected from Gaffery, from Fox-catcher Farm; Spring Hill Farms Nell K., Mrs. E. E. D. Shaffers The Fat Lady, Breckinridge Longs Loraine, Joe W. Browns Red Camelia, and Adile, one of the Jeffords pair. Gaffery has to her credit a smashing seven-furlong victory in the Santa Susana Stakes at Santa Anita, while Nell K. has among her trophies a clever score in the Continued on Page Forty-Seven jWistful Among Fifteen In Coaching Club Oaks Favored Over The, Fat Lady, Pella, Gaffery and Nell K. at Belmont Continued from Page One Acorn. The latter is over the mile distance and is regarded as a good test for the more important Oaks. Loraine won here, in an overnight race, while Adile was a bang-up third in her Acorn effort. Red Camelia is a fast-finisher. She displayed that forte in her recent starts and the longer distance of the Oaks appears to suit her style of racing. Hal Price Headley is represented by Pella and Flying Time, with each of these capable of turning in creditable efforts. The Fat Lady was shipped here from Detroit for her engagement in the stake and along with her came jockey Euclid LeBlanc. The Fat Lady made her racing debut at Hialeah during that meeting and impressed favorably. She also has to her credit a clever score in an outing at Detroit. Trainer John Partridge has always professed that Nell K. was the best filly he ever trained and the veteran, following the running of the Acorn, stated that the Oaks would be her next start and the one who whipped her, if she was whipped, would know she had been to the races. Admired, who came on from Pimlico, was a disappointment in a recent overnight race in which she finished unplaced to Loraine. On the strength of that showing Max Hirsch decided that the Breckenridge Long youngster had earned a right to try for the prize. Heretofore, the largest field in the Oaks was two yearsback, when Arnold Hangers Harmonica raced to a surprise score over Cosmic Missile, Snow Goose and the heavily supported But Why Not. Fourteen starters were in that field. Prior to that, in 1935, Black Helen, under the late E. R. Bradley silks, downed If others. The average field for the Oaks is five or six starters, but this year is the exception. The start of the race is effected on the Widener course, a spot that is used but once each year, and that for the Oaks. The starting point is indicated by a target between the five and one-half and six-furlongs poles on the straightaway. The field races down the straightaway until the main track is reached and then veers toward the right to continue over the regular oval. The turn from the chute into the main track is wide and little if any change in stride is noted as the fillies change over.
