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Royal Bay Gem Heading for Hawthorne In Quest of Lincolns Peabody Memorial Strong-Finishing Black Son Of Royal Gem II. Is Winner Of Six Races This Season HAWTHORNE, Cicero, HI., May 25.— Lincoln Fields officials received word from trainer Clyde Troutt at Baltimore today that he is shipping Royal Bay Gem to Hawthorne to keep his engagement in the 0,000 Peabody Memorial Stakes next Saturday. Eugene Constantin, Jr.s black colt, who finished third to Native Dancer and Jamie K. in the Preakness last Saturday, is traveling on the Pennsylvania Railway and is expected to arrive at this historic westside track early Tuesday morning. Troutt, a native of Benton, 111., long a familiar figure on Chicago tracks, is coming to saddle the colt for the traditional Memorial Day feature, which will be run for the twenty-fifth time on the forthcoming week-end. Owner Constantin, a resident of Dallas, Tex., is expected to be here to watch his colt run in the mile and one-eighth fixture, first stakes race of the Illinois season for three -year-olds. The 5,000, which Royal Bay Gem Continued on Page Three Royal Bay Gem Heading This Way for Peabody Strong-Finishing Royal Gem II. Colt Is En Route to Hawthorne . Continued from Page One picked up by finishing third in the Preak-ness, increased his earnings for the current year to 30,100. His six victories include the Everglades Handicap, Chesapeake and Jersey Stakes and the Preakness Prep, beating the Kentucky Derby winner, Dark Star, in the latter. Dark Star also was behind him, a well beaten fifth, in the Preakness. Royal Bay Gem was second to Straight Face in the Flamingo Stakes, third to Tribe in the Fountain of Youth Handicap. He finished fourth behind Dark Star in the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs and in the same position in the Derby. The black son of the imported Australian sire, Royal Gem II.. and Bayadere, by Chance Play, was, like Dark Star, in the first American crop by Royal Gem n., and was a ,500 yearling in the Keeneland auctions of 1951. As a two-year-old he won three races, including the Spalding Lowe Jenkins Stakes, and earned 7,170 his first season of racing. In his races this year he has been notable for his strong finishes which have obtained for him a part of all put two of the stakes and purses for which he has run. Royal Bay Gem is also a nominee for the Belmont Stakes on June 13. Most of the 29 nominees for the Peabody are at Hawthorne. Among those expected to start Saturday are Mrs. O. S. Demings Thaxter and several others he beat in the Peabody Prep last Saturday, including Hasty House Farms Platan, who finished second, and his stablemate, Torch of War, who was eighth. Dixianas Spy Defense, third in the Prep, is another probably starter, along with Berseem, another Dixi-ana eligible, who was withdrawn from the Prep. Golden Maxim Stables Mokatuck, T. N. Daniels Ace Destroyer, fourth in the Prep, are other likely starters. Sam E. Wilson, Jr., ran both Oil Gusher and Pick and Play last Saturday and probably will send them out again for the big race. Wal-mac Farms Chicago and Howard Wells King also are prospects. E. M. Goemans Arkansas Derby winner, Curragh King, a Peabody nominee, was an early arrival at Arlington Park and may van over for the big race.
