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, . ; . i Eight Meet Speedy Mad Hare In Feature at Detroit Course Booker Mare Ran Second in First Start of Meet; Fiddle And Sharbot Chief Threats By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 2. G. Y. Bookers stakes-winning .Mad Hare, a seven-year-old daughter 6f Mairan and Maddie, heads a field of nine high-class sprinters scheduled to meet here Thursday afternoon in the six-furlong Ionia Lions Purse. Under the allowance terms of the feature attraction, the Booker star will go to the post under a 111-pound burden and she will have the saddle services of jockey Tommy Barrow. Foaled at Parrish Nursery Mad Hare, foaled at the thoroughbred nursery of the late William N. Parrish, Fayette County, Ky., has been a colorful performer throughout a brilliant career. Successful last year in five engagements, she picked up earnings of 9,163 and she was a good winner over such classy rivals as Shadows Start, Lunar Park and Shane, among others, at Lincoln Downs in March. Mad Hare also is remembered by Detroit racing followers for her "big race" at Hazel Park last autumn in which she whirled a mile over that abbreviated five-furlong oval in 1:37, a mark expected to stand for a long period. . In her initial engagement at the Detroit Race Course this season, Mad Mare missed by a nose margin against Grandview Stables hard-hitting Polemos in the one -mile Continued on Page Forty-Four Mad Hare Engages Eight at Detroit Booker Mare Ran Second in First Start of Meet; Fiddle And Sharbot Chief Threats Continued from Page One Northf ield Kiwanis Purse. The Booker mare settled in the stretch with a short lead in the latter test and held on determinedly to the wire but was unable to withstand Polemos late challenge. With that race out of the way, it is quite likely that Mad Hare will show an improved effort in the Thursday headliner and she undoubtedly will answer "boots and saddles" a solid choice. Sternest opposition for Mad Hare in the Ionia Lions Purse probably will be provided by Fiddle, from the Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffer stable, and Tamarack Stables quick four-year-old filly, Sharbot. Fiddle will go to the post under a bulky 117 pounds, which will include jockey Tony Skoronski, while Sharbot, who gets in with old Keene. Sharbot, a daughter of Pavot and Bright Blue, recently visited the local winners ring after romping to a four and one-half lengths verdict in a three-quarters mile overnight event. She also scored in a Gulf-stream Park race before her shipment to Detroit and, on arrival here, lost a nose verdict to Task Fleet while such useful sprinters as,A-Pacopep, Hokey Pokey, Bo-laris and Darkie were among those following the top pair to the wire. Task Fleet stepped the three-quarters mile of the Palmer Park in 1:11 to trim Sharbot. , White Saddles Entry George C. White, Kentucky and Tennessee turfman, will saddle an entry for the Ionian Lions, Mrs. Whites improved Nocal-lula, 105, and Arthur Roses Michigan-owned Vie, 103 pounds. Jockey Lois Cook will have the mount on Nocallula and apprentice Johnny Rotz is engaged to handle Vie, Completing the likely Ionia Lions Purse starting band will be T. B. Fowlers Light Moon, 110; Mrs. E. L. Hopkins Pampas Beauty, 111; W. Strongs Nickies Boy, 114, and the Detroit-owned G and G Stables Barshoe, 111 pounds. -Pampas Beauty is a real "dark horse" in the Thursday sprint for she captured the six-furlong Orange Blossom Purse at Hialeah last January, trimming such clever fillies and mares as Woolford Farms Missou, Miss Mary V. Fishers Fulvous W. Arnold Hangers Rico Rosie, and Shaffer Stables Sweet Patootie, champion juvenile filly of 1952. Jockey Forrest Kaelin will guide Light Moon, Jimmy Purser is to handle Pampas Beauty, and jockey Robert Lee Baird, who has been showing top saddle form here this spring, will be. astride the speedy four-year-old, Barshoe, victorious in an overnight sprint at Keeneland in April.
