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Eight Middle Distance Runners in Kensington j Helwan, Harbourton, Old Fiddle Top Trio in Detroit Offering By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 17.— The Kensington, a mile and 70 yards claiming event for three-year-olds and up, which attracted an overnight field of eight useful middle distance performers, is the principal offering on a well-balanced program here tomorrow. Three of the probable Kensington starters, Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffers Helwan, Marion l H. VanBergs Harbourton, and Brown [ Hotel Stables Old Fiddle won their last I starts and the trio undoubtedly will come in for the major share of tote support. Helwan, a four-year-old homebred gelded I son of Heliopolis and Breezy Louise, won 1 two of his eight starts last year and he » turned in a sharp performance at the local oval June 10, capturing a mile and one-sixteenth overnight race in 1:46%. Shouldering - 114 pounds, the same burden he 2 will carry tomorrow, the Shaffer representative - beat Thistle War, Irritate, Fern i Gold, Papa Felix and Starborough. Jockey 7 Darrell Madden, who has been displaying ? excellent saddle form during the current t Wolverine state season, will have the e mount on Helwan in the Kensington. Old Fiddle, the get of First Fiddle and i Continued on Page Forty-Thret Eight Middle Distance Runners in Kensington Helwan, Harbburton, Old Fiddle Top Trio in Detroit Offering Continued from Page One Confidence, is a four-year-old gelding and looked good here June 5 while trimming Fern Gold;, Hurry-Skurry, Bee Lee Tee, Is There and others of that class in a mile outing. The Brown Hotel Stable racer romped to an easy four and one-half lengths triumph on a sloppy strip under 115 pounds. Old Fiddle gets in with 114 and it must be remembered that he was sharp enough to score over quick opposition in a seven-furlong race at Gulf stream in April and also that he ran second to Air Mail in a test at a like distance on the Churchill Downs course before transfer to the Motor City. Harbourton, 114, will have a useful running mate in the Kensington as VanBerg, leading trainer at the meeting, also entered Mock Battle, who is to take up a similar weight assignment. Harbourton defeated nine useful sprinters recently in a six-furlong encounter, decided on a sloppy strip. Mock Battle met defeat in his initial engagement at Detroit, but he was the good winner of five during his 1952 campaign and worked impressively for the Kensington. Jockey Lois Cook is to handle one of the Nebraska - owned VanBerg representatives in the Kensington. Mrs. Stella Lottis Button Shoes, successful in a mile and a mile and 70 yards at this track, will take some beating in the Kensington, despite the fact that the Raphael TJ.-sired gelding must take up the top weight of 120 pounds. Last week in the Port Huron Purse, Button Shoes was a stout third behind Little Donor and Big* Cat, which opposition was decidedly stronger than what hell meet in the Kensington. Jockey Howard Craig probably will pilot Button Shoes tomorrow. Completing the Kensington band is Dorchester Farms Daiquari, 105; I. J. Collins improved Reaping Love, 109; and E. H. Moodys Mr. Dink, 111 pounds. The apprentice allowance was claimed for Daiquari, who will be ridden by young Henry Patrick Quinn; Willie Owen is engaged for Reaping Love, and jockey Joe Valenti drew the Kensington mount for Mr. Dink, who raced rather well to be third behind Button Shoes and Light Moon in his only previous Detroit appearance.
