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Nine Useful Sprinters to Meet Today In Lake Erie Purse at Detroit Course Broad Cross, Is There and Nocallula Get Weight From Well Met in Claiming Event DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 20. — The Lake Erie, a six furlongs claiming event for four-year-olds and upward, is the best offering scheduled for Monday at this suburban Motor City racing grounds. Nine useful sprinters are engaged for the feature and the overnight favorite for the dash is George Zakoors Broad Cross, a seven-year-old Charing Cross-sired gelding, who gets in the Monday dash with 114 pounds, providing he is ridden by an apprentice reinsman. Broad Cross finished third in his last start to Foxy Adeline-and John Alden and he was a close second to Valenti Stables speedy Sheriff Grosch in a previous outing at the local oval. During his Gulfstream Park campaign, the Zakoor plater defeated a fair field of rather shifty platers in a three-quarters mile engagement, decided in 1:11%. While Broad Cross is expected to come in for stout support in the Lake Erie, he will have to step right along to notch his second success of the 1953 season. In the j band named to oppose him are such quick j performers as Brown Hotel Stables Arizona K., Robert L. Lancasters Nocallula, Adelhart Stables improved Well Met, and Mrs. Stella Lottis Is There. Others ex-pectedto go to the post in the Monday attraction are Starbord Stables Tis Joe, Mrs. Norman J. Hernandez New Orleans-owned Cardinal Lady, Ralph. Lowes Will You Dance, and Ypsilanti Stables Silence. No riders were named today for, Broad Cross and Silence, but Job Dean Jessop is I to guide Tis Joe, Jerry West will be astride Arizona K., and Lois Cook rides Nocallula in the Monday sprint. The apprentice allowance was claimed for Cardinal Lady, who is to have the saddle services of Henry Ford; Chuck Burns will be at the reins on Well Met and Manuel Gonzalez is engaged for Is There, third in his last-local appearance to Test Pattern and Tidy Sum in a three-quarters mile overnight event. Best supporting number on the card is the mile and one-sixteenth seventh, which will match 10 quick distance racers, running for nine interests. Duntreath Farm will send out an entry for the secondary test; Maryland Line and Sun Diver, the latter a sharp second to Luscious Fruit, a former stablemate here last Tuesday. Luscious Fruit will be under silks in the Monday race as will Dollys Rocket, Eland, Daylight Time, Grandad, Starborough, Wee Raider, a good winner at the meeting; and Sir Cobo, successful in a mile and one-sixteenth test here last week.
