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Rose Leaves to Draw Splendid Field Bloom at Detroit j For 0,000 Race Wabash Moon, Dixie Flyer, Amabala, Bated Breath Get In Useful Trials for Stake DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 17— The 0,000 Rose Leaves Stakes at six furlongs for fillies and mares, three years old and upward, undoubtedly j will have its best renewal here Saturday t afternoon. The allowance fixture, which il it had its inaugural in 1949, promises to bring b together a large and classy field, present r indications pointing to at least 14 of the p original 22 nominees accepting the week- t end engagement. a a No less than five of the Rose Leaves £ candidates visited the fast track here this * morning for trials. Carl M. Grahams s Wabash Moon, successful in three of her s seven engagements thus far this year arid E victress in Detroits Mackinac Purse, E whirled four furlongs in :47%, handily, s turning in quite the most impressive drill c of the day. Duntreath Farms stakes-win- 1 ing Dixie Flyer and Theodore D. Buhls locally-owned Amabala each stepped five- eighths mile in 1:02 handily, while Stair- J board Stables Bated Breath breezed a half 1 mile in :51%. H. wl Shaffers Avacago, i who fell in her last Pimlico engagement, had an easy three furlongs breeze in :38%, 5 the forerunner of a more serious move set i for tomorrow morning. 3 Consistent Performer i In the meantime at the Detroit Race : Course, Mrs. L. J. Herrmanns Bloom, a quick four-year-old Sun Again-sired filly, : put in her appearance from Chicago and she will be saddled for the week-end head- ; liner by Harry Trotsek. Bloom, the good ; winner of two of her three outings this season and second on one occasion, scored five times last year against high class com-" ] pany and picked up earnings of over 4,000. Her most important conquest to ! date was her sparkling triumph in the Spy Song Handicap at Hawthorne last September j in which six and one-half furlongs stake she carried 117 pounds along in 1:16%, near track record time. Others expected to answer "Boots and Saddles" for the Rose Leaves are Sweet Patootie, who races in the* livery of Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffer and adjudged the best of her sex and age division in the 1952 Daily "Racing FoRM-Morning Telegraph ! poll; Pollard and Harkins speedy Ever g ■ Bright, Duval A. Headleys homebred . Crownlet,«S. S. Barretts Auntie, a home-bred Time Signal-sired mare, who shipped I „ in from Omaha after compiling a splendid Ak-Sar-Beri and California record; G and G r Stables Round n Round, and Keene Gur-nees ■ Peu-A-Peu, a recent "visitor to the ! 3 local winners ring. Also Mrs. George d Shwab, Jr.s Vixen. Fixit, G. Y. Bookers 5 - Mad Hare, and Steve Valentis New ~Or-lf ■ of leans-owned star, Lilly Valenti, who seems 5 s to have returned to top form with her : s» Burlingame Purse success here day before ;- yesterday. y Those listed as doubtful for the half-holiday ■ feature are Mrs. Helen Chris •s Bolaris, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Collins ; le Biddy Bid, and Ivan D. Peats Sun Tan Gal. re Mrs. Betty Weitzels Baby Dear, Ypsilanti l- Stables Asphalt, and Havahome Stables s Regal Demand are others expected to pass s i- the Rose Leaves. *
