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Golden Trend Vies With Whiffenpoof Wall Horse Has Won Both of His Detroit Starts; Todays Race Is Prep for Frontier DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 27. — Six of the better-regarded candidates for the 5,000 Frontier I landi-cap, which will have its thirty-sixth renewal on Independence Day, are slated to meet here Monday afternoon in the Inverness Purse, a mile and one-sixteenth condition race, which shapes up as a splendid feature and a useful prep event for the July 4 holiday stake. Under the "allowance terms of the Monday headliner, A. F. Walls hard-hitting Golden Trend and Duntreath Farms Whiffenpoof are to take up equal high weight burdens of 119 pounds. Golden Trend, a handsome chestnut five-year-old Eight Thirty-sired stallion, a double winner at the current MRA meeting, registered victories in the Inaugural Purse and then came back with a smashing triumph in the eight furlongs Anniversary Purse last Monday, trimming Shag Tails, Little Donor, Second Avenue, Mad Hare, Light Moon, Sonic and Etelka after stepping along in an impressive 1:37% under 119 pounds. Previous to his shipment from Florida, the Wall star, conditioned by roly-poly Georgie South, defeated a fast field in a section .of Gulf-tream Parks Osceola, completing that mile and one-sixteenth trip in a speedy 1:43%. Beaten Off in Alger Whiffenpoof, a seven - year - old gelded son of Bull Dog and Wayabout, by Fair Play, was beaten off in the six-furlong Alger Memorial but the distance of the Inverness is more to his liking. The Duntreath Farm gelding won five races, placed in 10 starts and was six times third during his 1952 campaign and thus far this year scored in three of 14 engagements against high-class company. Theodore D. Buhls Detroit-owned Second Avenue and Brown Hotel Stables The Gink, get in the Inverness with 116 pounds, while Jerry Lynchs Our Challenge must shoulder 117 pounds. G. and G. Stables Little Donor completes the overnight field and the speedy Alquest-sired four-year-old Is the light weight at 114 pounds. Little Donor, good winner of four major events during his three-year-cld season, scored in the Port Huron Purse on a disqualification and he was a bang-up second to Shag Tails in the one mile Grand Circus Park Purse, beaten by a nose margin in 1:37%. The Frontier, this areas most historic stake, undoubtedly will bring out a sparkling field next week end. The mile and one-sixteenth fixture had its inaugural in 1902 at the almost-forgotten Highland Park track. From 1906 to 1929 it was staged at Windsor and many old-timers probably will remember the famed Old Rosebuds conquest over Boots at Windsor in the 1917 edition. It also decided at Devonshire and later at the old Fair Grounds. Along with the half - dozen Inverness Purse entrants, the 1953 Frontier list of nominees includes such as Duntreath Farms fine mare, Dixie Flyer, Hasty TJouse Farm and Mrs. Harry Trotseks Oil Capitol, Hasty House Farms Seaward, Tahitian, Pomace and Cajun, Marion VanBergs Vantage and Cajac, Springbrook Farms Pur Sang, Estate of Samuel D. Riddles Big Money, Reverie Knoll Farms New Orleans Handicap star, Smoke Screen, and Michael F. Lees Stuyvesant, among others.
