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Our Challenge Meets In A Spin, Five Other Milers in Grosse Pointe Purse Former Expected to Display i Top Form Today; Opponent Impressed in Saturday Win By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., May 27. -Henry Forrest, popular Kentucky turfman, is to send out Pollard and Harkins bur Challenge against six other shifty racers here tomorrow in the one mile Grosse Pointe Purse, feature attraction on the best-balanced program presented thus far during the young Detroit Race Course meeting. Under the allowance clause of the mid-week head-liner, Our Challenge, a three-year-old son of Challenge Me and Chilla May, will parade postward under a feathery 103-pounds burden and the colt is to be ridden by hustling Lois Cook, Kona. Kentucky-born reinsman. Our Challenges major opposition in the Grosse Point probably will come from in A .Spin, a member of the Jerry Lynch, Inc., establishment, and the latter colt, the get of Whirlaway and Warlou, already has chalked up one success here, having an- nexed the eight-furlong Livonia Purse last Saturday afternoon. In A Spin gets in the race with highweight of 119 pounds and William McKinley Cook is engaged to guide the locally-owned Lynch hope. A. G. "Lex" Wilson will saddle an entry for Theodore D. Buhl, Happy Gander, 105 pounds, and Bee Lee Tee, who is to shoulder 113 pounds. William Goelitz Jan-ina, 108, with Sherman Armstrong at the reins; James Paddocks Royal Tulip, 110, who is to be piloted by Tommy Barrow; and Shangrila Stables Alsiral, 113, complete the probable Grosse Pointe starting band. Our Challenge, rated one of the best three-year-old prospects in the Forrest-conditioned stable, won three of his 1951 starts, picking up earnings of over 0,000 but thus far this year he has failed to visit the winners ring. Beaten off in the Armed Forces Handicap at Churchill Downs, the Pollard and Harkins representatives best performance this season came about at Keeneland April 12 when he finished second to Cornelius V. Whitneys Cold Command in the six and one-half furlongs Beaumont Purse. Such highly-regarded three-year- Continued on Page Five Our Challenge Engages Six in Grosse Pointe Purse Pollard and Harkins Ace Placed To Cold Command at Keeneland Continued from Page One olds as Brown Rambler, Arroz, Hi. Decker, and Mediant followed the leaders home in the Lexington pre-Derby and Blue Grass stakes test. In A Spins triumph in theLivonia certainly stamped that four-year-old colt one of the best quartered here. Coming out of the gate on top, the Lynch star retained a clear advantage of two lengths at the final marker with Cullerton. Wisenheimer, the stakes-winner Our Request, and Dooly, a Whitney-bred following him to the wire. In A Spin won five engagement during 1951 and his recent works have been entirely satisfactory to trainer L. G. "Buster" Bed-well. Janina shipped here from Chicago and she holds a fair chance at the weights. Royal Tulip displayed speed in morning trials; Alsiral won seven engagements last year, while the Buhl entrants, Bee Lee Tee and Happy Gander, would have to show improvements to achieve major honors in the principal offering. Happy Gander has the best record, having scored over fair company on three occasions, twice in Florida and another at Churchill Downs. Happy Gander also ran second to Badger last week-end while Royal Tulip finished second to Brown Rambler in a division of the Ferndale Purse, bowing by a four-length margin. While the Grosse Pointe is attracting the most attention from local racing enthusiasts, the four and one-half furlongs two-year-old event, spotted third on the program, also is creating quite a stir. The Forrest Stable will hold a strong hand for this juvenile dash in Oratory and Uncle Fud while Sobare Stables Hera Lot, who displayed excellent speed in his Detroit debut, also is dangerous. Buhl Stables Good Times, G and G Stables Money Broker, Torrance C. Melroses Farrells Folly, Mrs. A. Kuhns Lucky Guess, and David Zakoors Teacher K. are others entered in the secondary attraction. Along with the two top numbers, racing secretary Charles McLennan also programmed several other interesting offerings; four-year-olds and older are slated to clash in the mile and one-sixteenth fourth, and the nine-furlong eighth while three-year-olds and upward will meet in the mile and 70 yards seventh. Three-year-olds and older are to go postwar d in the six furlongs fifth and this race is to bring together a crack band of 11 sprinters. Some of the better-rated entrants are Foray Vina and Fine Art, from the Forrest barn; Buhl Stables Second Avenue, John Stelles Hoosier Relic, G and G Stables Almehow, a good winner, and the Zakoor and McCarthy entry of Ten Gallon Hat and Pollys Delay, among others.
