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Kamehameha Triumphs As Garden State Choice King Ranch Sophomore Homebred Trims Slave Girl, Incrimination By FRED GALIANI Staff Correspondent GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 20. — King Ranchs Kamehameha made good as a favorite today and left his backers nothing to worry about as he came into thes tretch a good five lengths in front. At the finish of the featured Cape May Purse, he was still two and a half lengths before Ridge Stables Slave Girl, while Wildwood Farms Incrimination was another four lengths back in the field of eight. Jockey Joe Culmone was on the winning black son of Polynesian — Sun Lady for the first time and he drove the colt over the mile and a sixteenth in 1:45%. Kamehameha paid .60 for his victory, the third in eight starts this year. A crowd of 20,597 turned out in sunny weather, a rarity around these parts these afternoons. The homebred King Ranch colt has now Continued on Page Forty -Two Kamehameha Vindicates Garden State Backing King Ranch Sophomore Homebred Trims Slave Girl, Incrimination Continued from Page One won two of his four starts over this track and this afternoon showed some of the high promise held for him. Running with his head in an unusual low fashion, Cul-mone moved with Kamehameha nearing the half-mile pole and by the time they were midway of the turn, the black colt had zoomed past the pacemaking Witch Doctor and opened up a healthy lead in the flick of an eyelash. Culmone waved his bat alongside of Kamehameha s head as they hit the eighth pole, then put it away as he hand rode his mount to the finish. Slave Girl, who had been far back early, came up with a rush to be second, after getting into trouble a couple of times. She made a menacing move up on the rail nearing the far turn when she ran into a block and had to be taken back. Raritan Stables Bakersfield got up in the last stride under jockey Charlie Burr to nip Duntreath Farms Whiffenpoof in the Driller Purse. Bakersfield was carrying the hopes of the majority of the crowd, being backed into even money and they couldnt have had a closer finish unless it was a dead heat. Three and a half lengths in back of the embattled pair came Carolyn K. Stables Hierarch. Bakersfield, a former stake campaigner, ran the six furlongs in 1:10% and paid .20. Burr allowed Bakersfield to follow the early pace set by Whiffenpoof and Setubal, an Argentine-bred making his first start in this country, until they hit the run for home. Setubal, who was on the rail, dropped out of it and Bakersfield ranged alongside Whiffenpoof. Burr kept looking over at stout on Whiffenpoof, measuring his rival and was content to hand ride the horse to the wire, taking his last final glance at his rival as they went under the wire.
