Chicle II. Carries 122 In Tavistock at Camden: Has Fighting Fleet, Sun Bahram And Unification Among Rivals, Daily Racing Form, 1952-05-07

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Chicle II Carries 122 In Tavistock at Camden CamdenHas Has Fighting Fleet Sun Bahram And Unification Among Rivals RivalsBy By WILLIAM C PHILLIPS PHILLIPSStaff Staff Correspondent CorrespondentGARDEN GARDEN STATE PARK Camden N J May 6 The Tavistock Purse highlights the proceedings here tomorrow with a field of eight closelymatched middledistance performers including two stable couplings Despite the compactness of the group the public will have difficulty selecting a fa ¬ vorite although the entry of Joe Gaveg nanos Fighting Fleet and Go Between and the pairing of William G Helis Jrs Uni ¬ fication and Evicted are certain to prove effective effectivePalatine Palatine Stables grass course specialist Chicle H heads the band under 122 pounds He is matched in class by Mrs E H Ellison Jrs Sun Bahram but the latter has not raced since last July while the former would be more dangerous were he not required to spot his rivals so much in weight A Wilsons Arthur Pilate fresh after a light campaign in Maryland and Potato Chip Farms Bimfort who ran a skein of five triumphs before a defeat here last week round out the field fieldFighting Fighting Fleet is probably coming up to this race the sharpest and he will have the shrewd little Fernando Fernandez as his pilot The sixyearold son of Count Fleet made his initial start of the season here last week and after not being too hard pressed in the early stages he rallied nicely in the last stages coming to the finish fourth behind the winning Sonic Although the race might not look too im ¬ pressive on paper it definitely promised of better things to come However his run ¬ ning mate Go Between is not expected to be of much help helpUnification Unification an expensive yearling who is still striving to make up his purchase price has been a steady performer over the Garden State strip and he finished sec ¬ ond in his first local essay finishing second to Sonic and a little more than three lengths in front of Fighting Fleet The War Admiral Summer Time colt has alter ¬ nated in finishing in front of and behind Arthur Pilate during his early spring cam ¬ paign at Laurel but he appears to have the edge over that one in both weight and the advantage of having had an outing over the course courseEvicted Evicted who is just about the best that Pericles has produced has been training smartly the past few weeks but it will be his first essay since early last winter in Florida Neither of the Helis charges have riders named


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