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Johns Joy Drills One Mile In 1:39 for Motor City Kinard Three-Year-Old Shows Readiness for Week-End Stake FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., June 7. — John A. Kinards Johns Joy, fast three-year-old son of Bull Dog and My Auntie, turned in a sharp trial here this morning for his Saturday engagement in the 0,000 Motor City Stakes. Equipped with blinkers and under the guidance of Jimmy Combest, Johns Joy broke at the stand and stepped the eight furlongs in 1:39, handily. Fractions for the sparkling move were the quarter in :23%, half in :48M . and six furlongs in 1:13%. Johns Joy, one of the early choices for the one mile and one-sixteenth three-year-old fixture, seems to have regained the form that stamped him as one of the top sophomores in training this year and trainer Monte Parke expressed complete satisfaction with the colts present condition. According to advices from Washington Park, Lexbrook Stables quick Lextown, victor in the 1949 renewal of the Peabody Memorial, is to arrive here tomorrow night and he will go postward in the Motor City. Lextown recently breezed a mile in VA2VS at the Illinois course and he is to be ridden in the Saturday stake by Jack Richard, who handled him in the Peabody and Kentucky Derby. Others expected to answer the bugle here in the week-end stake are Addison Stables Arise, possibly Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffers The Fat Lady, Sylvester W. Labrots Taran, White and Thomas Our Request, Hal Price Headleys Yes You and Shakeme, Louis Lee Haggin, n.s Smasher, and Charles Rufis improved Blue Grip.
