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To Market Is Favorite At Garden State Park Faces Liberty Rab, Six Others In Six-Furlong Allowance Test GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 7. — The best offering on tomorrows off-day program at Garden State Park will be the sixth race, a ,500 allowance affair for three-year-olds at six furlongs. This sprint has attracted a field of eight capable sophomores, including several stake winners, of whom much is expected this season. Silas R. Mason II.s giant homebred chestnut, To Market, will no doubt start a warm favorite here, but this colt will receive interesting competition from such as Mrs. T. Christophers gray Liberty Rab, winner of the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont Park last spring over the champion Battlefield; Iswas, Brookfields chestnut son of War Jeep, whose main distinction in 1950 was a victory in the Garden State Stakes over the promising Rough n Tumble; Blue Speed, War Phar and Top Spring. To Market, an eligible for both the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, has been out three times this season. The Market Wise — Pretty Does colt has disappointed his connections up to the present, and there are some critics who maintain that he is purely and simply a sprinter. If so, he will be at no disadvantage here tomorrow, in spite of the top burden of 122 pounds assigned him by the conditions. To Markets first race this spring was a dismal effort in the initial division of the Experimental Handicap. His second start, in the longer half of the stake, resulted in a much better race. This time, To Market followed Jumbos fast pace for nearly three-quarters of a mile before he faltered badly to wind up seventh, beaten some four and a half lengths for it all. For his final, the Mason colorbearer showed a good effort in the Wood Memorial. Again, he was beaten, finishing some eight lengths off the winner, Repetoire, but he had been smack on the pace until the final furlong. To Market appears admirably suited in tomorrows feature and should have no excuses. Liberty Rab will be making his re-entry in this race. It is reported that the Harris Brown-trained gray has been working well, and he is well known for a brilliant flight of speed. Last year, Liberty Rab held his own against the best* juveniles in training, and it may be well to remember that he is always best when fresh. In tomorrows test, Liberty Rab, thanks to the mount of apprentice Russell Gaudreau, gets in with 117, five less than will be carried the choice and Iswas.
