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Head East-Ambroee Entry Tops Grand Circus Park Pollard and Harkins Youngsters Face Eight Rivals at Detroit By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., May 28. The current Michigan thoroughbred racing season is rolling along in auspicious fashion at the Detroit Race Course and the Grand Circus Park Purse, a four and one-half furlongs dash for two-year-olds, is to feature a good program tomorrow. The principal offering attracted 10 entrants and shapes up as one of the better juvenile events carded thus far. Henry Forrest will send out an entry in the Grand Circus Park in Pollard and Harkins Head East, 120, and Ambroee, 117 pounds. The Forrest-trained duo appears to hold a slight edge over the eight other speedy youngsters and it probably will go postward choice. The Cook brothers, Lois and William McKinley, are to handle the Pollard and Harkins hopes, with the former slated to guide Ambroee and the latter engaged for Head East. Bryant H. Wise, Michigan turfman, also is to send out two Grand Circus Park starters, his own Tune Time, 113, and Ar-buckle, who campaigns under the Wise and Sicking colors, 116 pounds. Others named are Mrs. A. Kuhns Barbeck, 113; Torrance Continued on Page Five I I Head East-Ambrose Entry Tops Grand Circus Park Pollard and Harkins Youngsters Face Eight Rivals at Detroit Continued from Pane One C. Melroses Cattaragus, 116; John Stelles Busy Lad, 116; F. J. Kurths Sanguinaria, 116; P. L. Hallums Halrack and E. K. Thomas Tripline, each scheduled to shoulder 120 pounds. Tommy Barrow will handle Cattaragus tomorrow, Hiram Tackett is to pilot Busy Lad, Willie Zakoor is named on Sanguinaria, and Alfred Popara, who successfully rode Gushing Oil in several of that crack three-year-olds 1952 engagements, drew the mount on Halrack. Head East bowed to Bentons Lucy last Monday by a length margin after leading his field for the major part of that trip. Head East, whose best performances were on firm footing, had some difficulty with the heavy track in his only appearance here and is expected to show to better advantage tomorrow. His stablemate, Am-broee, whipped a fair band at Churchill Downs on May 2 and her recent morning trials have been on the quick side. Halrack, Sanguinaria and Barbeck finished behind Bentons Lucy and Head East in their recent engagement, but the former colt should go better in the Grand Circus Park if the track remains firm. Halracks best effort to date was a victory at Churchill Downs on May 6, achieved at the direct expense of Miss Taffy, Old Rugged I and Good Times. Sanguinaria made his racing debut last Monday, giving a fair effort over a strip that he disliked, while Barbeck was beaten off. Cattaragus, a Melrose home-bred colt, was entered at Detroit inaugural day but withdrawn, due to. track conditions. Previous to his shipment from Churchill Downs, the , Melrose youngster finished fourth in a five-furlong overnight event and was a close third to Carmelette and Queenly at Hialeah last February the first time he went to the post. With Barrow at the reins, Cattaragus holds an excellent chance for a visit to the local winners ring and his works have pleased trainer P. E. Simmons. One of the better supporting races on the program is the six-furlong fifth, which is to bring out eight useful sprinters, Early favorite for this number is Col. Phil C. Chipps Nine Bells, who turned in several good performances in Kentucky this spring. Jockey Lois Cook is slated to guide the Chinn representative against such company as R. Meyers Odds Advance, Starboard Stables Pamaris, Myron Smiths Old Burlap, Al Wellmans locally-owned and consistent Winstay, Mrs. William Zakoors In My Bones, Mrs. A. Kuhns Cedric, and Marion H. VanBergs Nebraska-owned The Globe. Capacity fields are to meet in the initial three offerings for four-year-olds and older at three-quarters mile while three-year-olds and upward are to clash in the mile and one-sixteenth fourth. Fillies and mares, four years old and older, will go postward in the mile and 70 yards seventh while horses of both sexes from the same age division will ring down the curtain in the one mile "nightcap." The Detroit course was improved considerably today under occasional bright sun rays and a steady 4jreeze and the Thursday eight-race bill probably will be decided on a fast track. Post time for the first number on the well-balanced card will be at the usual hour, 3 :45 p. m.
