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Ten Quick Sprinters in Jeffersonville Gala Fete, Spunky j Seek Downs Event Walmac Homebred Filly Set For Seasonal Debut; Kingly Recent Victor at Keeneland CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 6. — The Jeffersonville Purse at six furlongs for four-year-old and older is the top attraction on the excellent card programmed for tomorrow at this popular South Louisville course. The feature attracted a field of 10 of the quicker sprinters quartered at the Derby oval and shapes up as one of the best short distance events of the current Kentucky spring season. Under the allowance terms of the Jeffersonville, Mrs. H. Allen Campbells A-Paco-pep and Bernard W. Landys Chicago-owned Cullerton are to carry the high weight burdens of 119 pounds each. Mrs. J. L. Tomlinsons Blackamoor and Clifford Mooers Kingly get in with 116 pounds, while Walmac Farms Gala Fete and Mrs. E. E. Simms Spunky are slated to shoulder 114 pounds. Completing the probable Jeffersonville Purse starting band will be Mrs. L. Barry and Mrs. B. Fedors Pat-the-Pilot, 113; Mrs. Leo Wagners Nickey W., 110; Brown Hotel Stables Ave, 105, and Mr. and Mrs. James R. Collins Detroit-owned Biddy Bid, 108 pounds. The apprentice allowance was claimed for Spunky, a Simms homebred Xalapa Clown-sired gelding. Gala Fete, a four-year-old homebred daughter of Count Fleet and Grand Gala, who was something of a sensation in Kentucky last autumn, is slated to make her first start of the year in the Jeffersonville. Successful in four of her 11 engagements in 1952, the Walmac filly rates highly and she is to have the saddle services of Johnny Heckmann. In her last appearance under silks Gala Fete decisively defeated a good field here in the six furlongs Appreciation Purse, stepping along in 1:11 % over a good track. Major Opposition Major opposition for Gala Fete undoubtedly will be furnished by Kingly, Spunky and Blackamoor. Kingly earned a well-deserved victory at Keeneland in the Beaumont Purse before transfer to the Downs, Spunky raced impressively during his New Orleans winter campaign and ran fourth in the Lanark at Lexington, while Blackamoor displayed good speed in a pair of Keeneland engagements before shipment to Louisville. Apprentice Forrest Kaelin is to guide Spunky in the Jeffersonville, Red Howell will be at the reins of Kingly and Johnny Adams is named on Blackamoor. Sherman Armstrong drew the mount on Ave but no reinsmen were assigned late today for Biddy Bid, A-Pacopep, Cullerton, Nickey W., and Pat-the-Pilot. Best supporting events Thursday are the mile and one-sixteenth second, which will match a half dozen useful three-year-olds and the seventh and eighth events for four-year-olds and upward. The seventh is to be decided at a mile and one-sixteenth while the eighth will be contested over the mile and one-eighth distance. Soocru, Celeriter and Prince Adaris are well placed in the second, while Button Shoes, Head for Home and Plunger should go well in seventh.
