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" . Mameluke Starter in Healey Inaugural Metropolitan Winner Faces Call Oyer, Three Rings and Alerted at Garden State Park By WILLIAM C. PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 23. C. V. Whitneys stout-hearted and fast-finishing Mameluke and the Bedford Stables game and fleet Call Over head a field of 12 here tomorrow under 118-pound assignments in the initial running of the 0,000 added Thomas J. Healey Handicap. The line-up of their leading opponents for the one mile and a furlong event is imposing, and includes R. W. Finchers Air Attack, 117; Hampton Stables Alerted, Mrs. E. L. Hopkins Three Rings and Charfran Stables Crafty Admiral, each to shoulder 116 pounds, and Joe Gavegnanos Joey Boy, who will carry a generous amount of local sentiment with his 112 pounds. The weather at present is ideal, and is expected to remain equally nice tomorrow, while the racing strip has recovered from the recent rains and will be lightning fast. The crowd is expected to reach about 30,000, with a possibility of a record to further-enhance the already generous success enjoyed by this meeting. First Presiding Steward at Track The Thomas J. Healey will be an annual fixture at Garden State Park hereafter, honoring the memory of the man who was known as "Mr. Garden State Park" during the pioneer days of this course when he presided as the first steward to represent the New Jersey Racing Commission in addition to his unmeasurable assistance and advice to president Eugene Mori and his associates. Mameluke, who will have the services of jockey Gerald Porch, will rule the favorite. He was highly regarded during his sophomore year, during which he was hampered considerably by weak underpinning, and this spring the bright chestnut son of Mahmoud and Schwester has been very impressive. He began his campaign in April Continued on Page Forty-Four Mameluke and Call Over Vie in Healey Handicap Three Rings and Alerted Also Named for Garden State Event Continued from Page One at Churchill Downs, winning with consummate ease over allowance company at one mile and a sixteenth. Mameluke then went to New York where he was unplaced, although closing fast, , in an overnight sprint handicap, off which he came back to win a smashing race in the one mile Metropolitan Handicap, running down Battlefield with his stretch rally to win by a half-length. Mameluke must pick up six pounds over his Metropolitan triumph, and he will have a much shorter stretch run in which to get steam up , here at Garden State, although, the added distance of the race will be to his advantage. Call Over is the speed of the band, with the local top rider, Charles Burr, to do the piloting. This five-year-old Devil Diver horse has had spectacular success in his stake engagements in New Jersey, and he captured three in succession here last fall, concluding with a victory in the mile and an eighth Trenton Handicap over a sloppy track. Call Over finished second to the easy winning Spartan Valor in the Valley Forge Handicap here at his last engagement, and he previously won a six-furlong allowance sprint. He is really at his best at the shorter distances, and he has not shown the dash this spring that brought him earnings in excess of 00,000 last season. Air Attack, although heavily weighted, really does not appear to be much of a threat in here, with his best races having been tallied early this spring in Miami. The real danger will be expected to come from Alerted and Three Rings. Alerted occasionally breaks away from the "two-hole" to win a generous share of his stake essays, and he comes up to the T. J. Healey from Pimlico, where he gained a game victory in the mile and three-sixteenths Dixie Handicap, defeating Auditing and Hull Down. Three Rings, a steady campaigner through the last years, is reported in ex-, cellent condition and he will be attempting to rack up a skein of three victories, having recently accounted for the Bowie Handicap at Laurel and an overnight handicap at Belmont
