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— — , Eleven Sophomores in Feature On Detroits Fire Relief Card Track Donating All Profits * To Fund for Aiding Victims; Cimmerona, Beanir Clash By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia. Mich., May 24. — The Northend Lions Purse, a six-furlong condition race for three-year-olds, is the top attraction on the Tuesday Fire Relief Day program at this spacious Michigan Racing Association plant. The local racing organization is donating all its admission fees, share of the totalisator pool, and other profits to the fund, which will be used for horsemen ahd , grooms, who lost their thoroughbreds and personal property in the disastrous barn U blaze here late Friday night. Several Personal Contributions Received The relief money, which already has reached a surprisingly large total, due to personal contributions and aid from outside chapters of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association, will be handled by the Local HBPA unit and pro-rated as follows: D to cover losses of personal property; 2 for tack -room gear; 3 any money remaining after 1 and 2 will be pro-rated equally on a per-horse basis to pay for the loss of thoroughbreds. Michigan State Racing Commissioner James Inglis authorized an extra day of racing at the MRA course, July 26, after it was announced that the local club would give up one day for the Fire Relief Fund. Inglis announced late Saturday that Gov. Mennen Williams, of the Wolverine State, was heartily in accord with the move. The Governor also expressed grave concern over Continued on Page Forty-Three * f . *i . . - * Eleven in Detroit Fire Relief Event Track Donating All Profits To Fund for Aiding Victims; Cimmerona, Beanir Clash Continued from Page One the horsemen who lost heavily in the track fire. David Goldberg, veteran distributor for Daily Racing Form and the Morning Telegraph in the Motor City area, stated today that he will donate as many papers Tuesday as the members of the local jockey colony can sell. The reinsmen, dressed in their silks, will act as "newsies" before they begin their riding chores and Goldberg is of the opinion that the saddlemen will add substantially to the Fire Relief Fund. In the meantime, groom Sam Robinson, who was in the employ of trainer Jack Adler, has been released from custody. No charges are to be pressed against Robinson, . according to word from MRA general manager Robert Leavitt. The Northend Lions Purse should prove an interesting feature Tuesday for 11 of the better second-year racers are entered in the sprint. Under the allowance terms of the dash, Fox Covert Farms Cimmerona. a speedy daughter of Barre Granite and Sis Lure, is the equal highweight at 117 pounds with Mrs.. Otto C Neumanns Beanir. Cimmerona, winner of three of her five engagements last year, one of which was the Governors Stakes, will have the saddle services of Lois C. Cook. Won 1953 Tomboy Stakes Beanir, a fashionably-bred filly, the get of Nirgal and Bea Right, by Bimelech, worked smartly for her local seasonal debut and she is remembered by local racing followers for her impressive triumph here in the 1953 running of the Tomboy Stakes. She also placed last year in a section of the Hialeah Juvenile and the Pollyanna at Arlington Park. Beanir was third in the Arlington Lassie, Debutante Stakes, and the Lafayette Stakes and picked up earnings of over 1,000 in her initial campaign. Jockey Manual N. Gonzalez, one of the top journeyman reinsmen at Detroit, will guide the Neumann filly in the North End Lines, according to word from trainer H. H. "Pete" Battle. George White will send out an entry in the race; ?1rs. Whites Little Colonel, 105, and Trip Lightly, 110 pounds. The apprentice allowance was claimed for both the White colorbearers and young Joe Gregory will have the mount on one of them in the Tuesday sprint. Others expected to go to the post in the North End are Mrs. D. Sukundos Sorb, 113; W. L. Huntleys Rosemary B., 105; Monarch Stables Talmen, 113;" G and G Stables My Fault, 113; Henry Forrests Moi Et Toi, 108, and. Larry Rodriguez Young Fellow, 110 pounds. Also Grace Kosibas locally-owned New Man, 114 pounds, with the apprentice allowance. CLARENCE HARTWICK— Reports his fine mare, Sickles Image, is galloping daily at Detroit but is not yet in serious training.
