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► Growing Up Likely Colonial Choice Seeking Garden State Park Stake as Third Win in Row Leading Home, Dark Favorite4 And Drifting Maid Will Vie With Warbern Stable Miss By WILLIAM PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 11. — Warbern Stables Growing Up and W. Ewings Dark Favorite, a pair of swift-stepping misses who finished first and second, respectively, in the recent running of the Correction Handicap at Jamaica, will tomorrow afternoon highlight the local sport with a renewal of their rivalry in the 5,000 added Colonial Handicap. Growing Up and Leading Home, the latter racing under the colors of William Ziegler, Jr., will head the starting field with equal imposts of 115 pounds, while Dark Favorite, who soundly defeated Leading Home in their last engagement, is posted at 113 pounds. Dark Favorite will therefore profit by a sizable four pounds shift from her effort behind Growing Up and will receive a seven pounds benefit over Leading Home from the race in which she defeated that one by four lengths. The public will probably separate the leading contenders to make Growing Up the favorite. She will be opposed by a field of 11 fillies and mares in the Colonial, which is the only stake offering for experienced members of the distaff side to be presented during the spring meeting. The distance is six furlongs, and several of the contestants are worthy of mention. Raced Well at Hialeah Growing Up, a buxom four-year-old daughter of Maxim — Macie Margaret, by Sir Greysteel, will be seeking her third straight victory tomorrow. She performed well last winter at Hialeah, and won one allowance race over both sexes in a swift lilO1. In her first appearance at Jamaica, she skipped over a sloppy track to take an eight lengths decision over Symposium, a gelding who recently won the Camden Handicap here. In the Correction Handicap, Growing Up was knocked about at the start and lacked her usual early speed, but she more than made up for that by charging relentlessly from the outside in the stretch run and was up for a triumph of one length. Dark Favorite, who similarly won her previous race over a sloppy track, set the pace in the Correction and was leading with a clear margin until met with the challenge from the winner. Miss Degree has been very consistent, and appears the sort that is ready to take over whenever the top ones begin to weaken. She races for E. M. OBrien and will carry 112 pounds. M. Kahlbaums Risk A Whirl also has somewhat of a "giant killer" reputation, and she is nicely placed with 113 pounds. She will be coupled as the Kahlbaum entry with Miss Tinka, 106 pounds, who has shown some promising efforts while competing against contemporary three-year-olds and members of her sex. Drifting Maid, a homebred of William G. Helis. Jr., will receive considerable local support from her good effort to finish second in the opening day feature of this meeting. She has several times displayed her partiality for the local racing strip and, under 110 pounds, could give strong representation for New Jersey. The others in the band are Pentagon Stables Chloe, 110; High Ground Stables On, 109; H. W. Finchers Danger Ahead, 108; Mrs. Tilyou Christophers Spats, 107, and Mrs. C. E. Nelsons Winship. F. AMBROSE CLARK— His homebred", Lone Fisherman, accounted for the Jervis Spencer Steeplechase at Pimlico.
