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Grecian Queen Heads Acorn Field Emardee and Eleven Others Seek Stake Whitaker Filly Has Won Last Four Races; Wings o Morn Is Classy Blue Grass Invader By BOB HOR WOOD Staff Correspondent BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 8. — The 0,000 Acorn Stakes, the aptly named little mile event from which the great Coaching Club American Oaks field will grow, will have its twenty-third running at Belmont Park tomorrow. Thirteen three-year-old fillies have been named for this fixture with all of them carrying an equal 121 pounds. Mrs. Ben F. Whitakers Grecian Queen, who will be ridden by Eric Guerin, is the probable favorite in this edition of the Acorn, with Mrs. Wallace Gilroys Emardee a likely second choice under Bill Boland. Grecian Queen won the Astarita, Schuyler-ville, Demoiselle and a division of the Marguerite Stakes last year and picked up where she left off this spring by wininng an overnight sprint and the Prioress Stakes at Jamaica. Both of those races were at six furlongs, but the mile should not trouble the daughter of Heliopolis — Qbania, who twice got a mile and a sixteenth as a juvenile. Winner of Rosedale Emardee won the Rosedale Stakes at Jamaica slightly over a year ago, but was sidelined soon after that dash, returning to action at Hialeah last winter where she won an overnight event and the Jasmine Stakes, then finished a second behind the older Sunny Dale in the Columbania Handicap at seven furlongs. Coming out at Jamaica on April 22 she was a close third behind Parading Lady and Flyamanita in the six-furlong Correction Handicap, but followed that fine effort with a bad in the Betsy Ross Stakes at Garden State last Saturday. This daughter of Heliopolis is not as sound as Grecian Queen, which may account for her poor effort in New Jersey. C. T. Chenerys Queens Moon and Green -tree Stables My Sin come from winning races at Jamaica. Queens Moon won two races early in the Jamaica meeting, came back with two bad ones, then scored a t rather lucky victory over Howell E. Jacksons Ballerina last Saturday. Trainer J. H, Continued on Page Forty-Four Grecian Queen Has Dozen Classy Acorn Opponents Emardee, Wings o Morn Set to Test Whitaker Filly at Belmont Continued from Page Three "Casey" Hayes believes that this filly is another of the many "sand shy" horses and accounts for her bad races by the fact that she refused to extned herself when taken to the inside behind horses. Ballerina was the victim of a ride which young Warren Lane was the first to agree was poorly judged and should improve over that race, but couldnt beat Grecian Queen in two tries last fall. My Sin was a very easy winner over a very poor field in her last at Jamaica and before that finished second to the moderate Cedar Jungle and was unplaced in the Prioress. Ogden Phipps is represented by Flirtatious and His Duchess, who would be formidable on last years form, but have shown nothing this spring. Much the same can be said of Brookmeade Stables Tritium, who won the Selima last year, finished a good third behind Grecian Queen in the Prioress, then came back with a bad race behind Sabette. She is encumbered with a pair of dubious pasterns. There are a couple of invaders in the Acorn in Cain Hoy Stables Wings o Morn, a daughter of Alsab — Good Morning, who won impressively at Keeneland, then finished up the track in the Kentucky Oaks last week, and Hal Price Headleys Velure, who was unplaced in the Ashland at Keeneland and Betsy Ross in her last two starts. The Acorn field is completed by King Ranchs Mac Bea, James Cox Bradys Secret Meeting and Pebblebrook Farms Vexa-Uou-.. Tho 1,-n.er .on a mod-,,. ■■„■■. „ Bowie, while Secret Meeting was a surprise winner at Jamaica, then finished second to Sabette. Mac Bea is making her seasonal debut, but has been training creditably. The daughter of Bimelech — Bee Mac finished her 1952 season with a victory in a division nft.hPM.PntPSt.tl a,„-Pl
