view raw text
Name Sextet for Omnibus Handicap Heads Monmouths Mad-Week Program Golden Gloves, Joey Boy and Bank Coal Vie; Good Field Competes in Kaye Purse By WILLIAM C. PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport; N. J., June 16. — The 5,000 added Omnibus Handicap, inaugurated at the old Monmouth Park course in 1882 when the famed jockey Steve Donohue brought Harry Gil-more to the finish as the winner, tomorrow has its seventh modern renewal with a small band of six set to contest the issue at one mile and" a furlong. Belair Studs Golden Gloves, victor of the recent Valley Forge Handicap, heads the field under 115 pounds, which will include his familiar pilot, Nick Wall. In addition to the 4ive rivals, to whom Golden Gloves will attempt to concede from seven to 11 pounds, there will be a classy group of 10 sprinters who will battle in the supporting feature named the Sammy Kaye Purse. The popular band-leader and golf enthusiast will be a guest of the management and make a trophy presentation. Among the entries in this race are Candle Wood, Elias G., Hi Billee, Jess Linthicum, Do Report, and a Brookf ield Farm entry of Iswas and Influence. Adding spice to the Omnibus will be a renewed conflict between Golden Gloves and Joe Gavegnanos Joey Boy, last years victor in the Omnibus who staged a bitter duel with the Belair racer in the Valley Forge to be defeated by a short head. W. E. Browns Bank Coal, a comparative novice in stakes competition, will start as an entry with Joey Boy. Double Stake Winner in 1952 Golden Gloves earlier this season was second in the Appleton Memorial at Gulf-stream Park, and finished third in the Blackstock at Belmont. Last season the four-year-old Isolater colt accounted for the Saranac and Shevlin Stakes and was second in three other stakes. He started in a mile and a sixteenth allowance race following the Valley Forge, and just failed to stave off High Scud, a tough fellow to whom he gave five pounds. Joey Boy has the weight advantage over Golden Gloves, gaining a six-pound handicap for the head margin by which he met his Valley Forge defeat. He receives only two pounds from his next encounter with Golden Gloves, however, when he finished fourth behind the latter and the winning High Scud with a little more than two lengths advantage. Last years Omnibus winner, when he carried 111 pounds to defeat Three Rings; next was completely out of the picture in another start at Garden State Park and, also, in the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs. Bank Coal is fast, and has on other occasions proved to be a worthwhile mate performing as an entry for trainer Tom Harry. John S. Kroeses Again n., surprise winner over an allowance field at Pimlico and fifth in the Dixie Handicap,- is well placed for a chance in this short field, as is Harry B. Cohens Mully S. should he be withdrawn from todays feature in preference for starting in the Omnibus. Jaclyn Sta-. bles Closed Door, who completes the field, has been absent from stakes competition since the Florida Derby of 1952, but his last two sprint efforts have been good and he - has been reported training well.
