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► rr~y * — " — ; — /- — rrnT7| CLARENCE HARTWICK — Sends out Sickles Image in Ypsilanti Rotary Purse at the Detroit race course today. Sickle s Image and Pur Sang to Meet Hartwick Filly, Kowall Colt Head Ypsilanti Rotary Purse Former Takes Up 121, Giving* Her Male Rival One Pound In Detroit Sprint Feature By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., June 6. — Clarence Hartwicks Sickles Image and Springbook Farms Pur Sang, a pair of good stakes per-fbrmers.are slated to clash here tomorrow afternoon in the Ypsilanti Rotary Purse, principal attraction on an interesting nine race half -holiday program. Sickles Image, scheduled to move to New Jersey Monday for a stakes campaign, and Pur Sang, a nominee for the Lincoln Handicap, closing day Lincoln Fileds feature, are expected to share favoritism in the field of five, shifty racers scheduled to answer the bugle in the six furlongs headliner. Sickles Image is the highweight at 121 pounds for the Ypsilanti Rotary while Pur Sang gets in the dash with 120 pounds. Others named for the Saturday feature are Mrs. Charles O. Schweitzers Radical, 113; Theodore D. Buhls Second Avenue, 116, and Starboard Stables Bated Breath, 114 pounds. . Jockey Gerald Champagne is to ride Second Avenue in the Ypsilanti Rotary, Jerry West will be astride Pur Sang, and Joe Marrero is engaged for Bated Breath. William McKinley Cook *may guide Radical while Billie Fisk, Sickles Images regular pilot, cannot be present tomorrow, due to a death in the Fisk family. Trainer Hartwick was shopping today for a reinsman to handle Sickles Image and stated that he had the choice of several better journeymen riders for his spedy four-year-old Miss. Scored in Memorial Day Event Sickles Image defeated Bated Breath, Pur Sang, and Radical on Decoration Day, earning a well-deserved decision in the 1952 running of the Fred M. Alger Memorial. The quick daughter of Sickletoy and Ariel Image, carried 115 pourids over the fast track on the holiday "afternoon in 1.10"%, best time of the current meeting for the three-quarters mile distance and her showing in that sprint certainly stamps her dangerous in the Ypsilanti Rotary. Pur Sang, four-year-old Side Boy-sired colt, had a rough trip in the Alger and trainer Johnny Zoeller is of the opinion that his charge will do better tomorrow, providing Pur Sang gets a better break in the racing luck. Pur Sang was a good win-enr at Golden Gate in March and he cap-iured the 1951 renewal of the Peabody Memorial. During his two-year-old season, the locally-owned Reuben Kowall repre sentative annexed the Kentucky Jockey 21ub • Stakes. Pur Sangs recent morning trials have been decidely satisfactory to his connections and he probably will give Sickles Image a sharp battle for major honors in the week-end attraction. Although Sickles Image and Pur Sang appear to hold the edge oyer their rivals, it must be remembered that Radical, a winner in Maryland this spring, had no chance to get any part of the Alger Spoils, a broken stirrup iron forcing Cook to ease the Schweitzer horse immediately after the start, Radicals triumph over Penocc, The Pincher and other quick ones in the May 8 Pimlico sprint, was such that the Challenger H. stallion merits consideration in the Ypsilanti Rotary Purse. Two Could Prove Troublesome Second Avenue, who carried the Buhl Stable silks successfully in the six furlongs Huron Purse on Memorial Day, and Bated Breat, fourth in the Alger, also could prove tough should either of them run a "big race." Second Avenue, a five-year-old War Jeep stallion, whipped Miss Bobbin, Suffki, Dear Tint, Traveler and Air Flight, among others, in the Huron but he will have to improve a bit off that encounter to snare the Saturday spoils. Bated Breath, five-year-old Okapi mare, gave a sharp effort in the Alger and, previous to that outing, she won four Florida engagements over speedy company. She can handle an "off" track and finished second to Dixie Flyer on opening day in the six furlongs Inaugural Purse, contested over a muddy strip in 1:14%. Best supporting numbers on the weekend bill are the one mile St. Clair Purse for three-year-olds, and the sixth race, three-quarters mile for four-year-olds and older, dubbed the Cadillac Square. David Fergusons Rigmarole, Arlington Farms Mock Battle", H. W. Kellehers Big Jet, C. E. Buckleys Red Romeo, Carl Grahams Sinn Fein, Duke Pallets Smooth Finish, Mrs. George C. Whites Hoptown, and Mrs. Don J. Ramsays Sir Rustom are to meet in the St. Clair. Henry Forrests Traveler, Wosiba Stables Is There, Saginaw Stables Badger, and W. S. Millers Wisenheimer l appear well-placed in the Cadillac Square, which attracted eight entrants. Four other middel distance numbers are slated for decision on the Saturday card, the fourth and ninth at one mile, the former for four-year-olds and up and the latter for three-year-olds. Four-year-olds and older will go postward in the mile and 70 yards fifth while eight quick fillies and mares, four-year-olds and up, were named to contest the third event at a mile and one-sixteenth.
