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Maple Leaf Goes To Sweet Dream Eastern-Owned Speedster Turns Back Evanstep and Our Request at Detroit FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich.. June 4. — Sweet Dream defeated perhaps the classiest field of fillies and mares assembled at the Fair Grounds in years when she responded gamely to Jimmy Combests drive and beat A. R. Evans Evanstep a diminishing neck in the 5,000 added Maple Leaf. Two lengths away, Our Request was third for Mrs. Geo. C. White and E. W. Thomas, as Brownian finished fourth in a field of nine. The successful Havahome Stables four-year-old, a recent invader from the East, had to turn six furlongs in 1:11% under 116 pounds to pick up the 2,450 which was the winners share. She paid a mutuel in a race in which Miss Mommy was the favorite. Second Start of Season Sweet Dream was making her second appearance of the new season, and her first in the Middlewest, and trainer G. Don Cameron obviously had brought her up to her engagement at the top of her form. She gave weight to all but Miss Mommy, who was attempting to concede her four pounds. Combest had her close up in the run down the backstretch, while Sequence set a brisk pace prompted by Hilda. Sequence finally shook off Hilda at the hot corner, but no sooner had straightened up for the run home when Sweet Dream drove to her on the outside. Sequence had gone the half in :46% and weakened coming to the furlong pole, where Sweet Dream assumed command. She seemed home free at this point, but Evanstep finished with a rush after being in trouble near the end of the backstretch, and was beaten only a neck. The three-year-old Our Request also ran very well and gave the impression that she could beat this field at a route. She was outrun to the stretch, but finished with a steady thrust that carried her into third place, and she might have had the most left Continued on Page Three Maple Leaf Goes To Sweet Dream Eastern-Owned Speedster Turns Back Evanstep and Our Request at Detroit Continued from Page One in the final yards. Miss Mommy, Lithe and Blue Helen all were in rather close in the pace duel down the backstretch and never figured prominently. Ideal weather conditions prevailed today in the Motor City area and an active half-holiday gathering of 17,449 turf patrons turned out for the sport, which was quite formful. The racing was decided over a lightning fast track and running times for the major events were better than average. Robert W. Athas Syndicate, a homebred four-year-old gelded son of Version and Chypre, sped to a clever triumph in the one mile and one-sixteenth Windsor Purse, chief supporting event. Smartly ridden by Ken Church, Syndicate was given a timely breather after making the early pace, then came again through the stretch and beat James Paddocks Blue Badge by a length and one-half. Mrs. Lottie Wolfs Mayram earned the short end of the purse, a similar distance farther back, while Jacob Shers favored Frere Jacques ran fourth in the field of six starters. Syndicate, second in his previous local outing to Porters Broom, stepped the Windsor route in 1:45#» and was a 2 to 1 second choice in the betting. J. C. Mackenzies Percieve, well handled by diminutive Tommy Fico, scored a front-running victory in the opener at six furlongs. The race developed one of the tightest finishes of the day, Percieve reaching the wire a scant nose before Buckley and; Locklears favored No Leddie, who was a like margin in advance of G and G Stables Neat and Tidy, third. Marion H. VanBergs Charivari, original choice for the sprint, broke out of the stall gate before the start, unseated jockey West and ran off. The stewards immediately ordered Charivari scratched and all wagers were refunded. Delay at Start E. D. Matkins Alrusha forced a delay for the start of the second six furlongs race when she fell inside the stall gate and had to be withdrawn due to injuries. This caused a pair of daily double pay-offs. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Kidds Top Valley, victor in the second, and Percieve, winner of the first, returned 2.00, while a consolation ticket on Percieve and Alrusha, scratched from the second end of the double, was good for 2.20. Top Valley turned in a game performance under apprentice Eddie Williams to score over Dearborn Stables favored Erinsville in the second, getting the verdict by a neck. Another mishap in the starting gate came about before the third race when M. H. VanBergs Olos Star reared and jockey West suffered painful leg injuries. The Louisville saddle star was sent to the track first aid station for a preliminary examination and then removed to Highland Park General Hospital for x-rays to check possible fractures. Reports from the local infirmary stated that no bones had been broken and that West probably would be able to resume riding in a few days. The winner in the third turned up in Soma Lad, from the Mrs. Lottie Wolf stable, and Tommy Fico completed a double on the locally owned plater.
