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* •_S__88K 38BL__r__ **■ wp WW :__; * * W * ___ f «if __fei m -3 i_w sandjBb?: _P " " : -„_£ *$£!? HraPlliraE fl__ vl ll_ __ _■_ „_ Regret Handicap Run inTwo Sections Cinda, Sickles I mage Favored k In Respective Ends of Stake Latter Faces Acid Test in * Meeting Boot AM, Sunshine Nell, Dixie Flyer, Quiz Song By WILLIAM C. PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., ; ] June 20.— The Regret Handicap will be run , ] here tomorrow in two divisions. Each will boast a classy field of nine fillies and mares , who will compete for a purse of 5,000 I added at a distance of six furlongs. The 1 Regret, named for the New Jersey-bred i amazon who was the only filly to win the ] Kentucky Derby, was inaugurated only 1 1 three years ago. This fourth edition promises | to be one of the most brilliant events of the meeting and secures a position for | the Regret as an important testing ground j for the sprint-minded members of the distaff | side. Clarence Hartwicks Sickles Image, who topped the original list of 30 with an assignment of 122 pounds, will lead off in the J second division that will be presented as the seventh race. This appears the closest contest of the two, with Jouett Shouses three-year-old Cinda heading the band in t the sixth race under 114 pounds while appearing ] a solid favorite and probable winner. Sickles Image will be making her first £ appearance in New Jersey, although she has competed in nearly every other racing state i in the union and is undoubtedly the champion 1 thoroughbred of all time. Hartwick t takes her anywhere there is a race for her, and r she usually does alright by herself. Last year j her winnings amounted to 19,775 through t victories in the Ashland Oaks, the Cleopatra, f the Modesty Handicap, the Arlington * Matron Handicap and five other overnight events. i Won at Detroit on May 30 " The homebred four-year-old daughter of * Sickletoy — Ariel Image, by Ariel has managed i only one triumph this season, but has € earned enough for shipping bills by gaining 4 5,500 in five starts. Her victory came 1 with her next to last start. That was an allowance 1 race at Detroit on May 30. She c carried 115 pounds to a front-running score j i in 1: 10%. defeating Duntreath Farms Sunshine £ Nell by a couple of lengths. In her * i most recent start at Detroit, Sickles Image * i ran second to Pur Sang when she was giv- s ing i that colt one pound actual weight, j § Sickles Image was shipped here shortly j £ after, and she has visited the local strip during c morning hours several times. r Woodvale Farms Boot All is closest to I Sickles c Image in weight with 118 pounds, a a This r four-year-old Our Boots filly was a f " standout this spring in New York, and she I recently scored at six furlongs at Belmont, r She , was unsuccessful invading Jersey for a the Colonial Handicap, and she stopped t badly after some early speed two weeks ago t j in the mile and a sixteenth Top Flight » Handicap at Belmont. j. The real interest in the division with £ Sickles Image will be her meeting with a a j Meyer J. Kaplans Sunshine Nell, 114 r pounds, l and Dixie Flyer, with 113. v [ Dixie Flyer Beat Sickles Image in Mud * Dixie Flyer, who is a five-year-old by c j Blue Flyer, won a race over a muddy track f a at Detroit in which Sickles Image finished s third. The latter made the score even in E their I next meeting at the Motor City, but p I Dixie Flyer receives a sizable seven pounds a * allowance for the two lengths separating -them. Dixie Flyer then came east to Belmont where Sunshine Nell stepped out in , front by six lengths to win, with Dixie Flyer r outrun all the way and finishing fourth. P Sunshine Nell gives four pounds to Dixie P x Flyer x from that last encounter, but that 5 I race makes her look all over the one to beat, £ V while her record of two victories and a third 4, in L her other Belmont starts this spring add % t to her credit. [j Cinda has beaten only once in five starts * this L spring when she went a mile and a six- ° of t teenth and could not handle the colts in t * the Chesapeake Stakes. The iron-hearted . ri daughter of Occupy beat older members of a ■ her sex in the Colonial Handicap at Garden ° £ State, and came right back at Camden to ■ win y the Betsy Ross Stakes over contempo- y _ raries under 121 pounds. * James Cox Bradys Landmark looks like • H the stiffest competition for Cinda. She has ° enough p early speed to stay right with her rival r and she performed well here as a ■ lin juvenile fa . last year. She has been out but four 1J t: times this year, and boasts victories in an c: allowance „ race and the Prioress Stakes. * Landmark L . was last active in the one mile be D Acorn, -" in which she set the pace before u d dropping back to finish eighth. Blue Moon, who races for Max Gluck, also figures p P prominently in this first division. Blue tl I Moon will be coming from off the early tl JOCKEY BILLIE FISK— Leaves Detroit by plane this morning for Monmouth Park where he will have the mount on Sickles Image in the second division of the Regret Handicap. p tl tl c pace, while Cinda and Landmark might run i themselves into the ground fighting 1 through the first stages. I
