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Eight Slated to Oppose Second Avenue In Anniversary Purse at Detroit Today Alger Memorial Victor Has * Shag Tails, Golden Trend And The Gink to Defeat By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 23. — Theodore D. Buhls "Motor City-owned Second Avenue, crack six -year-old War Jeep-sired stallion, heads a field of nine high class racers slated to clash here tomorrow afternoon in the Anniversary Purse. Under the conditions of the eight-furlong feature, Second Avenue will be one of the high weights at 119 pounds and the Buhl star is to have the saddle services of the veteran race rider, Carroll Bierman, who has been displaying excellent form during the current Michigan Racing Association season. Second Avenue, good winner of fqur major engagements during his 1952 campaign, scored twice this year, earning a well-deserved victory in the International Handicap at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, then captured the nineteenth Continued on Page Forty-Three Second Avenue Has Eight Anniversary Purse Rivals Alger Victor Meets Golden Trend, SHag Tails and The Gink Today Continued from Page One running of the F. N. Alger Memorial Handicap here on Memorial Day. Second Avenue defeated Cajac, Coffee Money, Shag Tails, Peu-a-Peu, Whiffenpoof, Bated Breath and Ballydam in the six-furlong Alger, stepping to a length and three-quarters accounting in 1:10%. While the Buhl star rates highly in the Anniversary, he will have to run a "big race" to notch another local success. In the band named to oppose him tomorrow are A- F. Walls Golden Trend, 119, Brown Hotel Stables hard-hitting The Gink, 116, G and G Stables Little Donor, 119, and Jerry Lynchs Sonic 116 pounds. Shag Tails, who carries the silks of the Cleveland, Ohio, sportsman, Milton Shagrin, will have a chance to avenge his-Alger reversal by Second Avenue and gets in the mid-week headliner with 119 pounds. Mrs. V. E. Smiths Etelka, 111, T. Ferrara s Light Moon, 113, and G. Y. Bookers Mad Hare, 106 pounds, complete the Anniversary Purse field. Shag Tails, won the three-quarters mile Linwood Purse on June 12, then came back with an unusually game performance to annex the one mile Grand Circus Park Purse on June 27. In the latter outing, the Shagrin colt was forced to turn the distance in 1:37% to nip Little Donor on the wire by a nose margin. The pair raced at even weights of 120 pounds in the Grand Circus Park and they meet again in the Anniversary, under equal burdens. Johnny Nazareth will be astride Shag Tails and Howard Craig is to pilot the improved Alquest-sired gelding, Little Donor. The Gink and Golden Trend will renew a duel they began last May 11 at Churchill Downs. The Brown Hotel Stable gelding defeated Golden Trend in the mile and one-sixteenth St. Matthews Purse and the return meeting of the pair has created considerable interest. Golden Trend is to be ridden tomorrow by Robert Lee Baird, who successfully piloted him in the Inaugural Purse. Darrell Madden is engaged for The Gink, who hasnt been out of the money in his last five starts. Best supporting events on the strong mid-week card are the Rouge Park Purse, six furlongs for three-year-olds, and the mile and one-sixteenth fourth, which will match sever! clever middle distance performers, three-year-olds and older. Big Perry, Fly TLelia and Dr. Alex appear well-placed in the field of eight entered for the Rouge Park while Irritate, Thistle War and Helwan are expected to go well in the fourth. Ideal weather prevailed today and a crowd of some 9,000 turned out for the racing this pleasant afternoon. The track was fast for the entire program. J. L. Reynolds Julian Louis, handled by Willie Carstens, graduated from the maiden ranks, defeating 10 other juveniles in the five-furlong opener. Julian Louis, who had a rough trip in his previous start, was overlooked in the speculation and returned straight pool backers 9.60. Cross Bones, from the Stanley Greene, Jr., stable, with jockey Howard Craig at the reins, won the six-furlong second race and he was held at 4 to 1 to earn his second success of the 1953 season. Cross Bones and Julian Louis, coupled in the Daily Double, paid 36.20.
