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Pomace Pomace Has Has Eight Eight La La Salle Salle Rivals; Rivals; Eight Eight Sophomore Sophomore Fillies Fillies in in CCA CCA Oaks Oaks Arab Actress Sure To DemandSupport Sprint Handicap at Lincoln Also Brings Out Smackoyer; Jockey Green on Fayorite By J. J. MURPHY LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, HI., May 28.— The Lincoln Fields Racing Association, on the eighth day "of its current homecoming meeting, starts the long Memorial week end by presenting on Saturday the thirteenth running of the La Salle Handicap. The La Salle, a six-furlong event endowed with 5,000 in added money, drew as probable starters nine of the original 26 nominees. Heading the list is Hasty House Farms Pomace, top weight with 123 pounds, and probable favorite in the rather surprising absence of Harry N. Eads Sir Mango, who was also assigned a 123-pound impost by racing secretary L. C. Bogenschutz following the victories of Pomace and the Eads colt in their respective divisions of the Crete Handicap on opening day of the meeting. Sir Mangos next public appearance probably will be in the seven-furlong Edward J. Fleming Memorial Handicap on June 5, one week later than the La Salle. Tuosix Only Three-Year-Old Named The eight named to contest the La Salle with Pomace are Mrs. H. J. Damms four-year-old Arab Actress, 118; Mrs. Herbert Herffs Smackover, 114; James H. Dunns Oh Leo, 110; F. W. Jansons Paytu, 110; William J. Schmidts Look Out Jeep, 109; Sam E. Wilsons Gushing Oil, 108, and Bugledrums, 107; and Clifford Lusskys Tuosix, 107, the only three-year-old in the prospective field. The five-year-old Pilate gelding, Pomace, has won three of his eight races this year. Prior to the Crete, the first division of which he won easily by two and one-half lengths over Smackover, the Hasty House horse had beaten Sir Mango in the Magic City Handicap at Gulfstream Park by two lengths and then was a facile winner of the Phoenix Handicap at Keeneland, finishing four lengths in front of Second Avenue". Bennie Green, eastern jockey, is flying in here tomorrow from New York to ride Pomace. The stables rider, Johnny Adams, flew back east from Lincoln Fields early this week to ride Hasty Houses Queen Hopeful in the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park tomorrow. At scale weight for her age and sex, Arab Actress with 118 pounds actually is the topweight of the field. The daughter of Burg-El-Arab— Center Stage, by Bull Dog, won her only start this year. She Continued on Page Fifty-One I " ~ 1 Homace Has Eight Foes In La Salle at Lincoln L.Meets Arab Actress, Smackover ■ In Revival of"Sprint Handicap Continued from Page One ■as one of the best fillies of her year last Bason, winning the Cleopatra and Misty He Handicaps and placing in the Artful Rfces, Beverly, Comely, and Vineland PPudicaps and the Kentucky and Mon-ponth Oaks. LHer owner, Mrs. Henry J. Damm, of In-Kanapolis, has been a modest buyer at the ■ptrling sales for some years, but Arab Actress is a homebred and the best performer ever to carry the colors of her own-This good filly is certain to have many Supporters in the week-end crowd. She ■11 have W. M. Cook as her rider and will [start from the extreme outside of the field Lrpm the No. 9 post position. Pomace will R!art from No. 2, Gushing Oil, with Bobby permane up, having drawn the rail posi- ■ Smackover finished second to Pomace ■ the Crete, and Tuosix was similarly [placed behind Sir Mango in their division. [Oh Leo was third to Sir Mango, Look Out J«ep fourth to Pomace. Paytu and Bugle-.drums were unplaced in the Crete. Paytu, however, was an impressive winner by six lengths in a race at Churchill Downs, and ien finished second to Money Broker and P«ead of Sunny Dale and Smackover in a handicap at the Louisville track prior to coming to Lincoln Fields. *Bugledrums won earlier in the year at .the New Orleans Fair Grounds. His sta-pttmate, Gushing Oil, has been unplaced tin three starts this year. He was one of the better three-year-olds of 1952, in which year he won the Peabody .Memorial. That nine-furlong event for three-year-ojds, carrying an endowment of 5,000, gomes up for its twenty-sixth running on ■tonday, Memorial Day, bringing the weekend and holiday program to its climax. The showing of Oh Leo in finishing third iri his division of the Crete, behind such a top sprinter as Sir Mango, was encouraging to. the admirers of the little chestnut stallion, who was one of the best of his year as a juvenile in 1951. -This thirteenth running of the La Salle is a revival of a former Lincoln Fields stake Tgiich has not been run since Paul Kelleys Gangway, a son of Gallant Fox, won it in 1949. The La Salle was inaugurated in 1937, i» which year M. C. Walkers five-year-old mare, Watersplash by imported Pot au Feu beat the ill-fated Dellor. Watersplash has been the only member of her sex to win the La Salle, but she has established precedence for Arab Actress, if that good filly can turn the trick tomorrow. The La Salle was renewed in 1939 and Rntinuously each year until 1949. Prior K 1948, the distance was a mile and three-■xteenths. Earlier winners included Her fleigh, Mucho Gusto, Shot Put, Equifox, Aletern, Valdina Foe, Good 3id, Historian, Take Wing, Flternal-»Reward and Gangway;
