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Twenty Nominations for Hurry Up High Weight Event At Detroit June 22 Porters Broom, Almenowand Pinebloom Named; Pella to Face Mona in Feature Today PAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., June 13. — The ,500 Hurry Up High Weight Handicap at five furlongs, for three-year-olds and older, which is to headline the program here on Wednesday, June 22, drew 20 nominees thus far,- and the late mail may bring in more entrants for the feature. Handicapper Charles J. McLennan will post weights for the Hurry Up High Weight next Saturday, and present indications point to an outstanding band of sprinters accepting the issue in the short distance dash. Among those eligible for the Hurry Up High Weight are Raymond Ankenbauers quick Porters Broom, Bernard J. Bax Veni Vici, P. L. Grissoms Almenow and Sun Herod, James Paddocks Blue Seal and Blue Badge, Henry Forrests Traveler and Cotton Joe, I. J. Collins Tidy Bid, and Hal Price Headleys Pinebloom. Others named for the sprint fixture are Raymond Coons Donquest, Dearborn Stables Clean Slate and Black Tweetie, David Fergusons Ariel Ace, P. R. and H. L. Hintons Trouble Sands, Marion H. VanBergs Rose Bed, Samuel Delisis. Queen May, Windsor Farms Chicago invader Loriot; Susan W. B., a representative of Jay D. Weil, Inc., and Bernard J. Bax King Bay. Porters Broom, homebred gelded son of Cant Wait and Shakedown, is the early choice for the Hurry Up, and the Anken-bauer star is one of the more consistent performers here this season. Narrowly beaten in the Curtain Up Handicap on inaugural day by Papa Redbird, Porters Broom came back to score a game triumph in the six-furlong Maidstone Purse, defeating a top-class field. During his 1948 campaign, Porters Broom won 11 of his 19 engagements and picked up earnings of 6,725. Ran Third in Charlevoix Headley stables homebred Pinebloom is another highly regarded eligible for the Hurry Up, and he has shown decidedly good form while competing with fast company. In his only local outing, the Headley gelding finished third to Almenow and Blue Badge in the Charlevoix Purse at six furlongs after he led his rivals during the initial three furlongs in the sprint. Almenow and Blue Badge are dangerous in the Hurry Up, and the former turned in a neat 1:10% when he captured the Charlevoix. Almenow, from the locally owned Gris-som stable,, not only won the Charlevoix, but accounted for the Hamtramck and the Mackinac Purses, both at three-quarters mile. In his three victorious trips at the Fair Grounds, Almenow beat many of the Hurry Up High Weight eligibles and he undoubtedly will prove one of Porters Brooms chief rivals. Sun Herod also visited the local winners ring, beating Porters Broom a head margin in the Highland Park Purse. Tomorrows program at the Woodward Avenue course is to be headlined by the Old Glory Purse, at one mile and 70 yards, for three-year-olds. The top attraction drew the entries of eight better-grade sophomores and the probable starting band includes Headley stables Pella, Dr. Charles E. Hagyards Mona, Jack A. Chambers Big Road, Grissom Stables Park Pigeon, O. Frank Woodwards Kosadus, Samuel Kirk-patricks Sky Blonde, W. P. Taylors Magnet, and LoVely Nymph, from the Virginia-owned stable of Mabel C. Scholtz. Magnet, a recent arrival from Maryland, finished third to Obstinate Si and Park Pigeon in an overnight sprint, but, previous to his shipment to Detroit, won at all three of the Maryland major ovals, defeating a good band at Pimlico, a quicker field at Havre de Grace and also turned back a mediocre band at Bowie. Pella, a daughter of Pharamond n. and Salaminia, by Man o War, was bred and foaled at Beaumont Farm, the Headley thoroughbred nursery, and she has engaged stakes and handicap company in her campaign. She won two races during her two-year-old season, but was beaten by Wistful and Lady Dorimar at Churchill Downs before suffering three straight defeats at Belmont Park. Starting here on June 8, Pella ran third to Wirra and Nitromond in the six-furlong June Bride Purse, but such fast fillies as Blue Jet, Veni Vici and Blue Molly were in her wake at the wire. Mona won, two engagements, one at Keeneland and the other at Louisville, before she was shipped here and her works indicate that she will be one of the keener factors in the Old Glory. Mona, a well-bred daughter of Bull Lea and Lark Song, looked good in both her Kentucky triumphs, but she failed to race to expectations here, when she was soundly beaten in the Royal Oak Stakes by The Fat Lady, Stole and Lithe. Dropped several notches when entered in the Old Glory, the Hag- yard homebred miss may prove a tartar for several of her better-regarded Tuesday rivals.
