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■ ■ — Maple Leaf to Lure Sweet Dream West Gazelle Winner to Meet Up With Top Motor City Fillies And Mares in Saturday Race FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., June 1. — The 5,000 Maple Leaf Stakes, one of the more important filly and mare fixtures scheduled for decision at the local oval this year, is attracting considerable attention from Motor City racing patrons. "With the announcement today that Havahome Stables crack filly, Sweet Dream, is to be shipped from Belmont Park for the six-furlong Saturday headliner, the field for the sprint is rapidly taking shape. - Sweet Dream, a four-year-old daughter of Lovely Night and Tea Leaves, won seven of her 16 engagements during her sophomore campaign and she also finished second on four occasions and was twice third, picking up earnings of 4,240. Perhaps her best efforts last year were a Gazelle Stakes victory and her second to First Flight in the Capra Handicap during the Empire City meeting. Sweet Dream defeated such fast fillies as Scattered and Compliance in the Gazelle and she was beaten but a head by First Flight in the Capita, which mile was run in 1:37%. The Havahome Stable miss made her first start of the 1949 season at Belmont Park on May 19 in the Rosetown Handicap and ran third in that six-furlong event, bowing to Greentree Stables consistent Paddleduck and S. D. Sidell-s Allies Pal. Sweet Dream, who had not been out since last autumn, displayed high speed during the initial half mile of the Rosetown and led her rivals until well inside the stretch, "faltering during the last eighth mile and appeared a trifle short. Ran Third in Royal Oak Hal Price Headleys Lithe, winner of the 1948 Demoiselle Stakes, has trained well for her Maple Leaf engagement, and Allen Hultz, who conditions the Beaumont-bred three-year-old filly, is of the opinion that she will go well in the Saturday fixture. Lithe visited the winners circle on four occasions last year and she won an overnight race at Belmont before her shipment to the Fair Grounds. In her only local outing, Lithe had a rather rough journey in the Royal Oak Stakes and finished third. J. A. Kroecks Blue Helen, an invader from Washington Park, compiled a good record last season and she scored an impressive and game decision over Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffers Miss Mommy at Churchill Downs last fall. The Kroeck filly also won four other races, ran second on six occasions and she was third in five of her engagements. After Blue Helen finished third to Tidy Sum and Bullish in an overnight race in Chicago this season,* she gave a sparkling effort in the six and one-half furlongs Steger Handicap, in which event she was second to Woolford Farms Delegate. Others expected to start in the Maple Leaf are Dr. Eslie Asburys Brownian, Mrs. E. E. D. Shaffers Miss Mommy, Brownell Combs Sequence, A. R. Evans Evanstep, Carr Hatchs Mazarine, Mrs. A.M.Durschs Anns Lee, O. F. Woodwards Hilda, and Mrs. G. C. White and E. W. Thomas Our Request. The Taffeta Purse at six furlongs for three-year-olds and the Cranbrook Purse, a sprint at a similar distance for three-year-olds and four-year-olds co-feature tomorrows program at the Woodward Avenue course. Henry Forrests Try Ike and Summond; Brent and Thomas .Monterey, and Mrs. Moody Jolleys Mr. Jay appear best of the sophomores engaged for the Taffeta, while Arthur B. Hancocks Nitro-mond, Mrs. Lottie Wolfs Beau Fortune, Jay D. Weils Susan W. B., and P. R. and H. L. Hintons Night Tour are the better rated Cranbrook entrants.
