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Rancocas to Draw Good Field of Juvenile Fillies High Voltage and MenoTene Slated ForGarden State Wednesday Race % By W. C. PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 24. — Juvenile maids hold the spotlight at Garden State Park on Wednesday, when the 5,000-added Rancocas Stakes at five furlongs is down for a decision. The final mid-week feature attracted a record number of 152 nominees, including two double stakes victresses. One of these fleet maids is Wheatley Stables High Voltage, who scored in the Rosedale Stakes at Jamaica, and last week took the measure of a select field in the filly division of the National Stallion Stakes at Belmont Park. In accounting for the Rosedale, High Voltage equaled the best time of the reting for five furlongs. The other classy miss with two stakes conquests to her credit is Dickey Stables Menolene, who gathered top spoils from a section of Gulfstream Parks Dinner Stakes and in the oinging Tower Stakes at the same course. Last Wednesday the daughter of Bull Brier was matched against colts for the first time in the Cherry Hill Stakes here, and performed in creditable fashion by finishing third behind the unbeaten Royal Note. A threat in the Rancocas looms in Hal Price Headleys Sofarsogood, who handed High Voltage one of her two setbacks when she led every step of the way in the recent : Fashion Stakes at Belmont Park. In ac-| counting for this fixture, the daughter of Revoked recorded the best time for the! event since 1946. A pair who accounted for both sections of the split Hialeah Juvenile Stakes in February may hook up in the Rancocas. They are Sunshine Staples Party Gossip and Jumping Brook Farms Snooty. Party Gossip, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Free For All, was acquired privately from John C. Lawrence, who had purchased her from Mulholland Brothers for ,600. Snooty made her initial trip postward a winning one in a division of the Hialeah Juvenile Stakes. The daughter of Better Self was sold as a yearling for ,800. Another highly regarded miss, seen for the first time by Garden State Park patrons last Friday, is Smart Devil, owned by Louis Lee Haggin XT. Pitted against colts in the Lafayette Stakes at Keeneland, the Devil Diver filly forced the pace all the way and was narrowly defeated by the quick Royal Note. In her lone start here, she was impressive in finishing second in an outing that should bring her to the Rancocas in peak form. Three other highly regarded maids whose most recent tests came in the filly division of the National Stallion Stakes are Claiborne Farms Delta, Maine Chance Farms Bushers Queen, and Alfred G. Vanderbilts Red Letter Day.
