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Aunt Jinny, Ruth Lily and Sickles Image Top 1 Nominees for Cleopatra Stakes Kilroe Announces Weights * For Myrtlewood; Coaltown, Roman Bath Each Get 126 The six-furlohg Cleopatra Stakes, 5,-600-added for three-year-oid fillies, will hold /the mid-week spotlight at Arlington Park next Wednesday with a bevy of female champions and challengers ready to take the track. Racing secretary Frank E; Kilroe announced. 19 nominations for the Cleopatra, with the 1950 juvenile filly queen, Aunt Jinny, and the California three-year-old filly champion, Ruth Lily, heading up the list for an early showdown. Others of note among the nominees include Flyamanita, Shawnee Squaw and Sickles Image, the much-traveled Michigan thoroughbred. Duval Headleys Aunt Jinny, who began racing into prominence during the 1950 Washington Park meeting, finished up the year voted, "best two-year-old filly of 1950." She has been resting on her laurels, more or less, while the bantam-sized Ruth Lily was taking charge of the three-year-old filly division at Santa Anita and Hollywood Park. Ruth Lily got the nod in the 0,000 Santa Susana Stakes at Santa Anita when Sweet Talk picked up a deserved disquali- ► : — : = fication and was placed third. The Eiwood Johnston runner underscored her right to that victory by following up with a triumph in theuHollywood Oaks. She shipped to Arlington by plane, arriving last week to keep her engagement in the Cleopatra. The Cleopatra will also bring about meeting of the winners of Chicagos two top 1950 juvenile filly stakes — the Arlington Lassie and the Princess Pat — with Lassie winner Shawnee Squaw and Princess Pat winner Flyamanita both scheduled to go Wednesday "afternoon . Setting up a quiet ambush for these title aspirants is Clarence Hartwicks successful miss, Sickles Image. She ran second behind Ruth Lily in the Santa Susana, won the Ashland Oaks at Keeneland, and ran ! third in the Kentucky Oaks behind How and Astro. Nine of the Cleopatra eligibles are also nominated for the 0,000 Arlington Matron Handicap, worlds richest filly-and-mare face to be run July 14. They are Aunt Jinny, Beauty Treat, Flyamanita, Hasty Request, Recind, Roman Miss, Ruth Lily, Shawnee Squaw and Sickles Image, i Kilroe also announced the weight assignments for Mondays opening-day feature at Arlington Park — the 5,000 Myrtlewood Handicap. Topweighted among the 22 nominees are Continued on Page Seven Crack Three-Year-Old Fillies Among Cleopatra Nominations Continued from Page One Calumet Farms Coaltown and R o m a n Bath, Hasty House Farms Crete Handicap winner. Both were given 126 pounds. Prop, 1950 Myrtlewood winner, got in with 108. as did Carrara Marble and Unbridled. Hasty Houses Wine List, winner of the Fleming Memorial, was weighted at 118, along with J. A. Kinards sprinter, Johns Joy. Other weights assigned by Kilroe were Badger, 106; Ballydam, 105; Big Story, 107; Circus Clown, 111; Colony Date, low at 102; Eagle River, 113; Miss Highbrow, 112; Sabaean, 109; Silver Wings, 106; Stop Gap, 110; Sun David, 113; War Talk, 107, and Yellmantown, 110.
