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Chain Reaction Heads Line-up For Boots and Saddle Feature Canadian-Owned Colt Meets* Gulf Stream, Andros, Four Others in Stake at Detroit By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., May 28. — The 0,000 Boots and Saddle Handicap, one mile and one-sixteenth stake for three-year-olds and older, will top a most attractive program scheduled for Saturday at this ultra modern Michigan mile course. The middle distance fixture drew an overnight field of seven high class performers and the starting high weight will be Mrs. Joseph Tom-linsons Canadian-owned four-year-old colt, Chain Reaction, pegged at 115 pounds. Bowed to Phil D. In the absence of trainer Jimmy Jones, who is at Woodbine to saddle the Tomlin-son stables Loose Rock for the latters engagement in the Woodstock Stakes, Jones assistant Milton Kite will tighten the girth Saturday on Chain Reaction. Jockey Willie Zakoor, who had originally planned to go to Canada to handle Loose Rock, will remain here and guide Chain Reaction in the Boots and Saddle. The Tomlinson star, generally regarded by seasoned Dominion observers as one of the best thoroughbreds of the past decade, turned in an unusually sharp performance here in the one mile Motor City Handicap, bowing to Phil -D. by a three-quarters length margin. Inasmuch as Chain Reaction was making his initial 1954 start in last Saturdays feature, he undoub 2dly Continued on Page Fifty-One JOCKEY BENNIE GREEN— Is coming here from the East today to ride Hasty House Farms Pomace in the La Salle Handicap at Lincoln Fields. Try Chain Reaction In Boots and Saddle Takes Up 115 While Facing Gulf Stream, Andros and Four Others at Detroit RaceCourse Continued from Page One will show marked improvement In the Boots and Saddle. Chain Reaction, a handsome brown son of Chop Chop and Erstwhile, won 10 of his 16 engagements last year and picked up earnings of over 8,000. His more important conquests were the Prince of Wales Plate, Achievement Handicap, Whittier Park Handicap, Canadian Derby, Speers Handicap, Woodbines Historic Breeders Stakes, and the one mile and one-quarter Durham Cup. While Chain Reaction certainly rates the favorites post in the week-end head-liner, he will have to turn in anoth. game effort to achieve victory for he must spot each of his six Boots and Saddle rivals weight. Among those expected to give the Tomlinson colt the sternest opposition are Marion H. VanBergs Andros, 104, "and Ralph A. Paracheks Ohio-owned colt. Gulf Stream, assigned 111 pounds. Gulf Stream and Andros ran third and fourth, respectively behind Phil D. and Chain Reaction in the Motor City but both finished extremely well in that eight-furlong stake. Gulf Stream, good class winner of nine outings during his three-year-old season, probably will have the saddle services of jockey Robert Lee Baird while Andros, successful in a pair of Oaklawn Park starts early this year, could prove a tartar withthe running of a "big race." The Van-Berg representative, a four-year-old Irish-bred Flamenco-sired gelding, will be handled Saturday by jockey Harold Keene. Others expected to go to the post in the Boots and Saddle are Jerry Lynchs Rain-tree, assigned 110 pounds; William Salisburys Our Kite, 194; W. L. Huntleys Color Guard, 104, and Mrs. George C. Whites Speed o* Light, 107 pounds, who is slated to make his seasonal debut in the Saturday stake. Craig to Ride Raintree Jockey Mike Basile will be astride Speed o Light, Lois Cook is engaged for Color Guard, and Howard Craig, one of the better journeyman riders in Michigan this season, will pilot Raintree, successful in three major events during his winter campaign at the New Orleans Fair Grounds. Chief supporting offering on the weekend nine-race card is the Dearborn Purse, a one mile condition race for three-year-olds. The early choice is W. E. Britts Aces Wired, a Fighting Fox-sired colt, who romped to an easy six-length triumph here last Friday afternoon in the three-quarters mile Woodward Purse, decided in 1:11%. Aces Wired will be ridden Saturday by Jockey Manuel N. Gonzalez, according to word today from trainer H. H. "Pete" Battle. While the Britt colt certainly holds a royal chance for a second victory, at the local oval, Grandview Stables hard-hitting Polemos, who will have jockey Cook at the reins, cannot be counted out of the Dearborn. Polemos was good enough to beat five older rivals here last Wednesday afternoon in the one mile Northfield Purse, defeating G. Y. Bookers Fine mare, Mad Hare, among others. m Also scheduled to go to the post in the Dearborn are the G and G Stables improved My Fault, Tamarack Stables Reb-Misha, Grace Kosibas Fast Traffic, Larry Rodriguez Young Fellow, Tomlinson Stables Angledozer, and Ro-Mar Stables limit Greenie. Under the allowance terms Polemos and Aces Wired are the high weights at 119 pounds while Reb-Misha must shoulder a bulky 117 pounds burden. It is expected that approximately 40,000 persons will witness the Saturday and Monday Memorial Day programs. Careful estimates indicate that at least 18,000 spectators will be on hand for the Saturday racing while 22,000 is a conservative count for the Memorial Day bill. The latter holiday usually brings out Wolverine State turf enthusiasts in greater numbers than any other day of the year. The initial events on both the Saturday and Monday programs are to be called to the post at 2:00 pjn. sharp. MILTON KITE — Will saddle Chain Reaction in the Boots and Saddle Handicap at Detroit today in the absence of trainer James S. Jones who is at Woodbine for the afternoon.
