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Imposing Nomination List for Californian Fifty Stake Winners on Roster For 00,000 Hollywood Stake HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., May 12. Hollywood Parks new 00000 race, the Californian, has drawn one of the most imposing thoroughbred line-ups of the year, with 50 stakes winners who have won a total of 162 stakes, in America and abroad listed among the nominations. Hollywood Park opens Friday, May 14, and The Californian will be run June 12. Racing secretary John Maluvius announced today that Hollywood Parks venture into staking the 00,000 added weight-for-age race, with certain penalties and J allowances based on earnings, is an assured success with a total of 74 nominees. Included among theturf stars named for the mile and a sixteenth race are Native Dancer, Determine, Imbros, By Zeus, Rejected and The Pie King. Native Dancer, the gray comet who has carried the Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt colors to victory in 19 out of 20 starts, heads the list of nominees for The Californian. The Dancer recently scored an impressive victory at Belmont Park after a rest since last fall when he was laid up to recover from a foot injury. Vanderbilt also named his stakes-winning Find for the race. The Andrew J. Crevolin pair of Determine and Imbros also ranks high among those named for the event. Determine, the Kentucky Derby champion, has won nine stakes in his racing career of less than 10 months, while his speedy stablemate, Imbros, earned his eighth stakes victory in winning the recent 00,000 Kyne Handicap. As is usual in most outstanding stakes races, the Calumet Farm of Mrs. Gene Markey holds a strong hand for The Californian. Five Calumet stars are eligible for the race, including Arrogate, the two-year-old champion of the 1953 Hollywood meet; Fleet Bird, who was second in the Gold Cup last summer; Dixie Lad and the outstanding fillies, Bubbley and Miz Clementine. All are stakes winners. Trainer W. J. "Buddy" Hirsch is prepping a strong dud for The Californian in Rejected, who won last years "Westerner and the 1954 Santa Anita Handicap for the King Ranch, and Mrs. Edward Laskers By Zeus, who captured, the San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita last March.
