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Dixie Flyer Given Alger Topweight Assigned 122 for Holiday Stake at Detroit; Meeting All Set to Open Tomorrow By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent j DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., May 26. — The 1953 thoroughbred racing season will get under way at this spacious Michigan Racing Association plant Thursday for a 57-day meeting which is to conclude August 1. Top offerings on the inaugural day program are the St. Ignace Purse, a one mile condition race for three -year-olds and upward, and the Mackinac Purse for three-year-olds and also at eight furlongs. The St. Ignace carries a ,000 purse while the Mackinac is expected to bring out a crack band of second year-racers contesting for a ,500 purse. President E. E. Dale Shaffer, executive vice-president George Haggarty, and general manager Robert Leavitt, of the local course, announced early this year that the MRA would present six stakes during the forthcoming session. Racing secretary Charles J. McLennan this afternoon released his weight assignments for Saturdays F. M. Alger Memorial Handicap, 0,000 six-furlong event which will headline the week-end holiday program. P. L. Grissoms Duntreath Farms Dixie Flyer was allotted top weight of 122 for the Alger, which impost is four more than Pollard and Harkins Ever Bright will have to take up. Truly Fair n., from the W. G. Reynolds stable,-is third high on the weight allotments with 116 pounds and is followed by Jerry Lynch, Inc.s, Sonic at 115 pounds. The Alger weights then scale down from the 114 pounds given Shag Tails, Little Donor and Whiff enpoof, to the 104 assigned Precious Stone. Most important added money attraction scheduled for decision this year is the 0,-000 added Michigan Mile, which will feature the racing here July 25. Among the nominees for the rich stake are such high class performers as Calumet Farms Hill Gail, 1951 Kentucky Derby victor; Hasty House Farm and Mrs. Harry Trotseks Wid-ener Handicap star, Oil Capitol; G and G Stables three-year-old colt, Money Broker, who captured the Florida Derby; Clarence Hartwicks Michigan-owned mare, Sickles Image, and the fine stakes thoroughbred, Crafty Admiral, from the Charfran Stable. Frontier First Run in 1902 The 5,000 Frontier Handicap, which had its first running in 1902, will be renewed this season on July 4 and the mile and one-sixteenth stake is expected to bring out a quick field of three-year-olds and upward. Also scheduled during the meeting are the 0,000 F. M. Alger Memorial Handicap, Saturday, May 30; the ,500 Tomboy Stakes, June 13; tte ,500 Governors Stakes, August 1, and the 0,-000 Rose Leaves for fillies and mares. June 20. With an unusually strong thoroughbred colony already quartered here, racing sec-retary-handicapper Charles McLennan and his assistant, Sidney Brown, are of the opinion that the daily programs, other than those on stake days, also will be of much better class this season. Some of the better known establishments registered here for campaigning are those of Theodore D. Buhl, Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffer, P. L. Gris-som, the G and G Stable, James Paddock, George White, John Hart, Marion Van-Berg, Alex Chris, Raymond Grundy, Mrs. Norman J. Hernandez, A. F. Wall, and the Henry Forrest establishment, among others. Following are the weights for the F. M. Alger Memorial: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Dixie Flyer 122 Barometro 110 Ever Bright .118 Ballydam 110 Truly Fair n. 116 Second Avenue 110 Sonic 115 Sedgeview 110 Shag Tails 114 Vantage 110 Little Donor 114 Black Racer 109 Whiff enpoof 114 Bated Breath 109 Our Challenge 113 First Refusal 109 Coffee Money 112 Sweet Patootie 108 Hot Penny 112 Peu-a-Peu 107 Mon-Pharo 112 Biddy Bid 107 Mohammedan 112 Abisok 106 Radical 112 Bolingover 106 Cajac * 111 Little Doc 105 Crownlet 111 Air Mail 105 Golden Trend 111 Precious Stone 104
