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Dark Dark Star, Star, Beaten Beaten Foes Foes Head Head East; East; Nine Nine Fillies, Fillies, Mares Mares Meet Meet in in Firenze Firenze Closes Out Meet At Jamaica Track Parading Lady, La Corredora Loom Almost Equal Choices; Kiss Me Kate Also Fancied By BOB HORWOOD Staff Correspondent JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 4.— The highly successful Jamaica meeting comes to a close tomorrow with the 0,000-added Firenze Handicap, which brings together a field of nine fillies and mares, who will meet at a mile and a furlong. On Wednesday, the scene shifts to Belmont Park for a brilliant, 37-day meeting. Walter M. Jeffords Kiss Me Kate, who was voted the champion three-year-old filly two seasons ago, but was able to win only one race, the New Castle Handicap, last year, heads the Firenze with 126 pounds, most of which will be Dave Gorman. Kiss Me Kate started once at Jamaica and was unable to give seven pounds to the rather ordinary Swoop at a mile and a sixteenth, though making up a length and a half in the final furlong. The Jeffords mare faces a considerably harder task tomorrow, despite the improvement that can normally be expected. She is asked to give three pounds to Joe W. Browns Parading Lady, stretch-running winner of the six-furlong Correction Handicap under a pound less in her last start, and winner of the Acorn Stakes and Vosburgh Handicap last year. Marian W. OConnors La Corredora, who won an overnight handicap at a mile and a sixteenth here under 122 pounds on April 11, also has 123 to carry tomorrow. Ira Hanford will ride the Little Beans four-year-old. Ovie Scurlock will again be on Parading Lady. Marta to Have Following While Parading Lady and La Corredora are expected to be almost equal favorites, with Kiss Me Kate a likely third choice, there will probably also be some support for Woodvale Farms Marta, 117, and the King Ranch entry of Sufie, 114, and Islay Mist, 111. Marta, who has occasionally come up with some very "big" races in a spotty ca- Continued on Page Forty-Three Nine Fillies and Mares Go In Firenze at Jamaica Continued from Page One reer, showed that she is near her best form when finishing second to Islay Mist here in her first outing since an unsuccessful Florida campaign. She was • giving Islay Mist 11 pounds in that mile and a sixteenth and concedes only six tomorrow. Islay Mist had previously finished second to La Cor-redora, receiving 16 pounds from that filly, and gets only a dozen tomorrow. Conn Mc-Creary will again be on Marta tomorrow. Bennie Green will ride the improved Islay Mist tomorrow, while Eric Guerin is slated to ride Sufie. That four-year-old filly beat a band largely composed of second-or-third-rate sophomore colts in a test at a mile and a sixteenth here on April 25, coming from behind with a convincing rush. The Firenze field is completed by George D. Widener s No Score and Hal Price Head-leys Aesthete, 110 pounds each, and Circle M Farms Big Mo, 107. No Score will be making her local debut and her principal recommendation is the fact that she will be ridden by Ted Atkinson. The Shut Out filly has been a consistent disappointment. Aesthete, who is usually a "speed" mare, lacked her usual dash in the Correction, but finished fairly well to be fourth, beaten about a length for all the money by Parading Lady. She benefits by a four-pound weight shift, but may find the distance a bit far. Hedley Wood-house has the riding assignment. Big Mo finished far behind Islay Mist and Marta last week, after being a strong factor to the eighth pole, at which point she appeared to sulk, probably because she had a badly cut mouth. This mare had her brief moment of glory last year when she won the Delaware Oaks on a muddy track. Nick Wall is slated to ride her tomorrow.
