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Bloom Gets Call to Defeat Dixie Flyer, Auntie, Eleven Others in Rose Leaves Filly and Mare Stake Holds* ~ Promise of Keen Contest at Detroit Race Course Today By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 19.— The 0,000 Rose Leaves Stakes at six furlongs for fillies and mares, three years old and older, will headline an unusually good half -holiday program tomorrow at this spacious "Michigan Mile" track. Fourteen of the original list of 22 Rose Leaves nominees were named through the overnight entry box this morning for the sprint and the third renewal of the allowance stake promises to be the best since its inaugural at the old Fair Grounds course in 1949. Under the conditions of the Saturday feature, P. L. Grissoms Duntreath Farm star, Dixie Flyer, will shoulder the high-weight burden of 122 pounds and the six-year-old Blue Flyer mare is to have the saddle services of capable Tommy Barrow. Dixie FJyer, scheduled to make her 1953 debut in the Rose Leaves, was the good winner of four major engagements last year and two of her conquests were achieved in stakes, a division of the Regret Handicap and the Molly Pitcher Handicap. The Duntreath representatives recent morning trials have been decidedly on the quick side and trainer P. E. Simmons is of the opinion that his charge is quite fit for the week-end attraction. Mrs. Louis J. Herrmanns Bloom, speedy four-year-old daughter of Sun Again and Larkflower, is the overnight Rose Leaves Continued on Page Forty-Three I t » ; j . r : ; [ ; [. ; [ , [ ; ! . [ . . , Blddmr Dixie Flyer fe Go in Rose Leaves Twelve Other FiSly or Mare Entrants Give Sprint Stake at !g Detroit Today Fine Appeal 5 Continued from Page One favorite and she gets in the stake favor- — ably-weighted at 111 pounds. Bloom, who q shipped here from Chicago will be handled by the English-born reinsman, Peter Gif- O ford. Bloom, successful in two of three out- ings thus far this year, scored in five of 17 * starts during her three-year-old campaign, registering in the Spy Song Handicap last fall at Hawthorne after stepping the six ?° and one-half furlongs in 1:16%, near track record time. - While Bloom and Dixie Flyer rate highly " in the week-end dash, several others in the overnight band would be dangerous with 2: the running of a "big race." Carl M. m Grahams Wabash Moon, one -of the light- to weights at 104 pounds, is in sharp form at .P present. G. Y. Bookers hard-hitting and — • consistent Mad Hare, 113, worked well for j£ the stake, and Sweet Patootie, 110, pounds, w the best of her sex and age division during the 1925 season, hold royal chances for Rose Leaves Stakes victories. Wabash Moon, victress in the Mackinac Purse on inaugural day, will be guided by jockey Eldon Nelson; Mad Hare, third in the Belle Isle Purse last out, is to be ridden by Chuck Burns while Darrell Madden, regarded by many seasoned observers as one of the best riders to show here in several years, drew the Saturday mount on Sweet Patootie, a homebred four-year-old Al-[ quest-sired filly. Dark horse in the Rose Leaves this year is S. S. Barretts Auntie, a seven-year-old Time Signai-sired mare, who shipped in from Omahas Ak-Sar-Ben track. Auntie, a homebred, won nine of 23 starts during her 1952 season and she already has chalked up seven winning trips thus far this year. Coming from Omaha at which strip such fine thoroughbreds as Delante, Abadane, Brilliant, Polvo, Virginius, Motor Cup, Top o th Morning, French Admiral and Droop made history, Auntie cannot be taken too lightly tomorrow and she gets in with 113 pounds. Jockey Johnny Brooks, who handled Auntie in a pair of successful trips at Ak-Sar-Ben, will be at the reins tomorrow in the Rose Leaves and his mount breezed an easy three-eighths mile this morning in :37%. Others Expected to Start Other outstanding performers expected* to answer "Boots and Saddles" for the week-end feature are Duval A. Headleys stakes-winning homebred, Crownlet, 108; Starboard Stables speedy Bated Breath, 110; victress in the Belle Isle Purse; decided in 1:10%; G. and G. Stables Round n Round, 108, who worked impressively for her stakes outing; Steve Valentis New Orleans-owned Lilly Valenti, 110, star of the Burlingame Purse; and Theodore D. Buhls Amabala, the featherweight at 98 pounds. Also the Henry Forrest-trained pair, Pollard and Harkins stakes -winner, Ever Bright; and Keene Gurnees Peu-A-Peu, each pegged at 111 pounds, and Ypsi-lanti Stables Asphalt, 110 pounds. Jockey Carroll Bierman may accept the Rose Leaves mount on Crownlet, Larry Hansman will be astride one of the For- rest-conditioned starters, Job Dean Jessop rides Bated Breath, and Lois C. Cook, leading reinsman at the meeting, is engaged for Round n Round. Dick Lawless will be astride Asphalt, Jimmy Vinson is to handle Amabala while Robert Lee Baird, who began the racing today with one less win-. ning mount than Cook, drew the saddle chore for the fleet Lilly Valenti. Racing secretary Charles McLennan and the members of his staff arranged some good supporting numbers for the Saturday bill, best of which are the John R. Purse at one mile for three-year-olds and the Saginaw Bay Purse, six furlongs for thoroughbreds from the same age division. Shaffer Stables Hit the Spot appears to have an edge on his five John R. rivals while C. C. Ortliebs homebred Dr. McCabe appears well placed in the Saginaw Bay, which matches seven such good ones as Forrest Stables Lonoke Flash, Mrs. Helen Chriss Bolaris, and Al Wellmans Sedge-view, among others, while the mile and three furlongs "nightcap" matches Galoot, Sails, Lancer, Quarter-Master, Swaddle, Nickleby and Mr. and Mrs. James R. Collins Spy Ring, who captured the two miles Ascot Gold Cup, June 8.
