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1 » ] j J i t l 1 i j * c f r 1 1 J t I f i t t c 5 * s 1 a » i! : Detroit Programs Four Attractions Our Kite May Prove Best of Eight Milers Competing in Foremans Association Purse By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., June 13.— The Michi- gan Racing Association undoubtedly will play host to one of its largest crowds to- morrow afternoon when it presents an unusually attractive half-holiday program at this spacious and modern Detroit race course. Four allowance races, the Flag Day, the Old Glory, the Foremans Association, and the Red White and Blue Purses will co-feature the week-end bill and each of these events promise stellar sport for the Motor City patrons. Three-year-olds are to meet in the three- quarters mile Flag Day and the mile and 70 yards Red White and Blue, 11 members of the age division having been named for the sprint while seven useful middle dis- tance racers are slated to meet in the longer distance test. Three-year-olds and older are scheduled to go postward in the eight furlongs Foremans Association Purse while nine of the quicker youngsters quar- tered at the local oval will clash in the five furlongs Old Glory Purse. Radical Has 119-Pound Impost Perhaps the best offering on the week- end card is the Foremans Association Purse, which attracted eight top perform- ers. Under the allowance clause, Mrs. Charles O. Schweitzers Radical is the high weight at 119 pounds while Thomas F. Devereux homebred Gay Hunter and Henry Forrests Our Kite each get in with 117 pounds burden. Tic-Tov Stables Dooly, 113, Starboard Stables Bated Breath 112 Mrs. Howard G. Underwoods Brown Ram- bier, 108, Sobare Stables Air Flight, 103 and Saginaw Stables Badger, 100 pounds completes the Foremans Association purse overnight field. Air Flight and Bated Breath are to race coupled in the mile at- Continued on Page Ten Four Allowance Features Dot Program at Detroit Our Kite May Prove Best in Mile Of Foremans Association Purse Continued from Page One/ traction and trainer C. P. Sowers will , I saddle the pair. i Our Kite, four-year-old gelded son of Our Boots and Alkit, may go to the post favorite over his seven rivals in the Foremans Association Purse. Victor in four of his 16 engagements last year, the Forrest i star came up to the races nicely this season 1 1 and set a new mile and 70 yards track record of 1:40% at Oaklawn Park March 8, . I defeating Ruhe, Dad, False and other • j stakes performers in the King Cotton Handicap. Last Derby Day at Churchill 1 j Downs, Our Kite turned in an impressive seven furlongs in 1:24% to achieve major " honors in the Kentucky Colonels Purse, • downing such high class racers as William 1 Veenemans stakes-winning Black George, • Mrs. Herbert Herffs Screemin Jack, Alfred 1 Gwynne Vanderbilts Good Loser and others ; of that caliber. Our Kite will have to turn in another sharp performance to garner a victory in i the Foremans Association Purse. Gay Hunter is in excellent condition and recently • won the Great Lakes Purse, nipping Our Request, Dooly, Janina and In A Spin, among others. Along with Gay Hunter, . Bated Breath, Brown Rambler and Badger r have shown speed in recent local engagements - and any one of them might prove t dangerous with a race to top form. Juvenile racing is always popular with i Detroit racing followers and the Old Glory f Purse certainly should prove one of the best t events on the Saturday menu. Mrs. E. E. !. Dale Shaffers homebred colt, Fiddle, a son i of Roman and Fairday, is the early favorite I , i i 1 1 . I • j 1 j " • 1 • 1 ; i • . r - t i f t !. i to whip eight rivals. Fiddle has made but one appearance under silks, finishing third in the Joliet Stakes to Dean Cavy and Happy Carrier. In the band named to oppose Fiddle are such shifty youngsters as Roman Jean, Full Circle, Ramjet, Alie-Ed, Wilks Loss, Bull Keys, Good Times and Caboose. Alie-Ed and Caboose are winners at the current local meet. Dave Ferguson, Motor City tool and die manufacturer, will send out the choice in Rigmarole for the Red White and Blue Purse at one mile and several of his opponents in that race will try him again tomorrow. Arlington Farms Mock Battle ran secondin the St. Clair, H. W. Kellehers Big Jet was third, and Mrs. George C. Whites Hoptown finished fourth. Carl Grahams Sinn Feinn wound up sixth behind Rigma-i role in the St. Clair but he also will give it another fling in the Red White and Blue. Terrell Brothers Tis Joe, second to Shag Tails in the Industrial Purse and Jefferson Purse winner at Churchill Downs, along with Grace Kosiba Stables Pak rounds out the list of entrants. George White, Tennessee turfman, will send out an eniry for *he three-quarters mile Flag Day in Robert Lancasters Noca-" lulla and Mrs. Whites improved Little Donor. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Flynns Master- son. a Sir Francis-sired gelding, raced im- pressively last year, chalking up four tri- umphs against classy company and his re-. cent morning trials have been decidedly on the fast side. Others entered in the Flag Day are T. D. Buhls Green Saber, Marion H. VanBergs Jackie Van, Miller and Steeles Rush Street, Thomas Grahams Racker- Bill, Shaffer Stables Woe Is Me, Mrs. William Zakoors Scherzo, Robert Youngs Shibboleth, and Bangaway* a recent winner from the stable maintained by the estate of the late B. W. Stivers. Post time for the first race on the Satur-e day bill is 2 : 00 p. m.
