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; Mad Hare Works Well For Rose Leaves Stakes Booker Mare Timed Five-Eighths In 1:00; Other Candidates Drill DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 18.— G. Y. Bookers Mad Hare, one of the better-regarded candidates for the Saturday running of the 0,000 Rose Leaves Stakes, was on the fast track here this morning for a five-eighths mile drill, which she accomplished in 1:00, handily. The Booker mare, good winner of 10 engagements during her 1952 campaign and successful in a pair of overnight events this year, stepped the initial four furlongs of her move in :47% and made an excellent physical appearance. YPsilanti Stables Asphalt and H. W. Shaffers Avacado also were out for five-furlong spins. The former breezed in 1:04, while Avacado required 1:03%, although merely breezing in her Rose Leaves prep. Mrs. George W. Schwab, Jr.s Tennessee-owned Vixen Fixit, a homebred Petrose-sired filly, had an easy three-eighths mile trial in :36%, handily. There was no question here today that this years Rose Leaves renewal will be one of the best since the filly and mare stakes inaugural in 1949. Carl Grahams Wabash Moon, Mad Hare, S. S. Barretts Western invader, Auntie; Duntreath Farms Dixie Flyer, Mrs.. Louis J. Hermanns Bloom, the G and G Stables Round n Round, and Steve Valentis New Orleans-owned Lilly Valenti are classed as sure starters in the six-furlongs week-end feature and each has trained satisfactorily for the sprint. Bloom, a stakes-winning four-year-old daughter of Sun Again and Larkflower, is the early choice for the race inasmuch as she shipped here from Chicago with an excellent record. The Herrmann filly registered five victories and six seconds against high class company last year. Thus far" this year, Bloom earned brackets in a pair of v overnight outings at Hawthorne and holds a decision over Reverie Knoll Farms Smoke Screen, victor in several important winter stakes, including the 0,000 New Orleans Handicap. Dixie Flyer; mainstay of Perne L. Gris-soms Duntreath Farm establishment, annexed a division of Monmouth Parks Regret and the Molly Pitcher Handicap during her 1952 campaign. She picked up earnings of nearly 0,000 for the year and she is slated to make her seasonal debut in the Rose Leaves. Others expected to go to the post for the half-rholiday fixture are Theodore D. Buhls Detroit-owned Amabala, Keene Gurnees Peu-A-Peu, Duval A. Headleys Crowhlet, Pollard and Harkins Ever Bright, Starboard Stables Bated Breath, and, possibly, Mrs. Helen Chris Canadian- owned Bolaris. : :
