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1 : L. SIERRA Will saddle Wee Raider in the Marathon Handicap Number Three at the Hazel Park course today. Spy Ring Strives To Make Amends Beaten Choice in Marathon At Hazel Park Last Week Tops His Fiye Foes Today HAZEL PARK, Mich., Aug. 25. Mr. and Mrs. James R. Collins route-running Spy Ring, a five-year-old daughter of Alsab and Hindu Spy, by Discovery, is the highweight at 119 pounds for the mile and three furlongs Marathon Number Three Handicap, feature attraction on the excellent program slated for Wednesday afternoon at this popular near-Detroit course. Spy Ring, good winner of eight engagements thus far in his 1953 campaign, met defeat last week in the Marathon Number Two and the locally owned mare, who will be ridden by Tommy Barrow, holds a royal chance to make amends for her recent reverse. In the band named to oppose. Spy Ring in the Wednesday long-distance test are Grandview Stables Clean Broom and ABC Stables Bullet Cee, each pegged at 109 pounds; Richard A. Connells Top Command, 106; Desert Stables Hierapolis and Arrow Stables Wee Raider, assigned 104 pounds. Clean Broom recently visited the local winners circle after trimming a useful band of middle-distance racers at one mile, and the E. E. Russell-trained gelding probably will have the saddle services of Robert Lee Baird, one of the top journeymen race riders, at Hazel Park this season. Bullet Cee Threat Major opposition for Spy Ring and Clean Broom in the Marathon Number Three undoubtedly will be furnished by Bullet Cee, a seven-year-old gelding, the get of Mastiff and Singing Sands. Bullet Cee set a mile and three-quarters track record here in 1951, but he is a capable sort when sent a mile and three furlongs, the Marathon distance. The ABC Stable representative won a mile and three-sixteenths event at Hialeah Park last January, then captured the Ascot Victory Plate in May. In his last local start, Bullet Cee was beaten four lengths by Isle Sea in the Marathon Number Two, while Spy Ring wound up third, another two and one-half lengths off the victor. While the Marathon Number 1 Three Handicap is the principal offering on the Wednesday midweek card, the San .Souci Purse, a six-furlong dash for two-year-olds, shapes up as a rather interesting race. Ridgefields Eternal Frolic, who will have Lois Cook at the reins, A. P.Giordanos Little Don G., and Liberty Stables Smooth Palm, under jockey Baird, probably will draw the major share of "tote" support in the juvenile sprint. A. Andrews Can Pac, Mrs. H. Christensens Hi Gail, Michigan Stables Perman, a recent winner; and Keuka Farms Opozo, complete the likely San Souci Purse starting field.
