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Bated Breath Goes In Hazel Park Mile Victress of Last Two Races Vies With Whiffenpoof, Bay Bloom, Gulf Stream Today By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent HAZEL PARK,Mich.,Aug.28. Starboard Stables Bated Breath, fleet six-year-old daughter of Okapi and Delma Dunn, will shoulder the high weight impost of 119 pounds here Saturday afternoon when she clashes with 11 other high class performers in the 0,000 Hazel Park Mile. Bated Breath, good winner of her last two local engagements, the six-furlong Speed Burners Handicap and the six and one-half furlongs Great Lakes Handicap, will be in quest of her .third straight Michigan victory and her sixth of the 1953 campaign. C. P. Sowers, Starboard Stable" trainer, announced this morning that jockey Robert Lee Baird, who began todays racing tied with apprentice Don Holmes for top riding honors, will guide Bated Breath in the Hazel Park Mile. Young Holmes is engaged to handle Mrs. M. W. Huckabys Mikeaby, pegged at 108 pounds for the half -holiday headliner. Whiffenpoof Carries 118 Marion H. VanBerg will saddle a useful entry for the week end feature, Whiffenpoof, JL18 pounds, and the speedy Chic Wave, assigned 107 pounds. Whiffenpoof, seven-year-old Bull Dog-sired gelding, successful in the 1953 renewal of the Frontier Handicap and three other major engagements, ran second to Gulf Stream in the Continued on Page Fifty-Four Bated Breath Striving For Hazel Park Mile Double Winner at Meet Vies With Whiffenpoof, Bay Bloom Continued from Page One Ed McCuan Memorial Handicap and placed behind Bated Breath in the Great Lakes. Chic Wave quick four -year-old daughter of Ocean Wave, a double winner at Detroit Race Course this year, was a close second to Bated Breath in the Speed Burners, but was beaten off last Saturday in the Great Lakes. The VanBerg filly raced wide in the latter sprint, but her recent morning trials indicate that she could be a sharp factor in the Hazel Park Mile if she races to her best form. Diminutive Lois Cook, the hustling Kentucky-born reinsman, will be astride one of the VanBerg Hazel Park Mile entrants. Ralph Paracheks Gulf Stream, crack three-year-old colt, the get of Wait A Bit and Lapis Lazuli, drew 115 pounds for the Hazel Park Mile and the Ohio-owned star will be ridden by Howard Craig. Gulf Stream, a double winner in Michigan before annexing the McCuan Memorial Handicap, holds a royal chance Saturday. The Parachek star came from off the pace to beat older rivals in the McCuan, trimming Whiffenpoof , Dry Run, Golden Trend and D. H. Wells Black Bantam, among others. Gulf Stream will, of course, meet Whiffenpoof and Black Bantam in the Hazel Park- Mile and the Wells representative, pegged at 107 pounds, will be handled by jockey -Willie Cox. G. Y. Bookers Mad Hare, consistent Hairan-sired mare, will take up 114 pounds in the Hazel Park Mile Handicap and try for her second straight local victory. Mad Hare, victorious in 10 of her 21 starts last year, scored in three of her 1953 outings, recently winning the mile and one-sixteenth Lake St. Clair Purse from Mrs. F. J. Vollmers homebred My Nell, who is scheduled to go to the post in the Saturday attraction under 110 pounds. Tommy Barrow will be at the reins on Mad Hare while Norman Bernardo pilots My Nell. Thomas McDermotts Hurry-Skurry, 105; River Downs Stock Farms Irish-bred Bay Bloom, 113 pounds; Mrs. Charles O. Schweitzers Radical, 106, and J. G. Fer-raras New Orleans-owned But Why, 109 pounds, compete the Hazel Park Mile Handicap probable starting band. Bay Bloom, an erratic sort, won an overnight event at the local track. Radical has been showing improvement, and But Why trimmed a fair field here last week in the eight furlongs Jockeys Guild Purse. Buddy Mills rides Bay Bloom, Willie Zakopr will be up on Radical, but no reinsmen had been named late today for Hurry-Skurry and But Why. Tony Ferraiu-olo, who gets back in action Saturday after serving a rough riding suspension, may accept the mount on But Why. Top supporting races on the Saturday half-holiday card are the ,000 First Graders Purse at six furlongs for two-year-olds, and the ,000 Wayne Purse, three-quarters mile condition race for three-year-olds. Anthony Ferraras Fighting Ike, Grace Kosibas Sub Factor, William E. Schmidts Make A Note, and the G and G Stables Eternal Shock appear well placed in the field of 11 juveniles slated to answer "Boots and Saddles" for the First Graders while the Al Wellman-T. McDermott entry, Task Fleet and Judge Lane; R. B. Walters Fly Lelia, and Etta B. McAtees Darkie are expected to draw strong support in the Wayne. Despite the extreme heat during the past week in the Motor City area, attendance has been excellent at this suburban Detroit course nad president Richard A. Connell and his Hazel Park associates expect to entertain a bumper crowd for the Saturday nine-race program. The advertised post time for Saturdays is 2 :00 p. in. but Hazel Park f ollows an old Michigan custom and generally get their week-end initial events to the starting gate several minutes late.
