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Offer Woodvale Racing Stock at Auction Today Next Page, Fancy Diver Among Eighteen Head Going on Block BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. June 9, The dispersal sale of the racing Stock owned by the Woodvale Farm of the late Royce G. Martin and his partners will be held in the paddock at Belmont Park Thursday at 9 a. m., with an auction of horses-in-training of various consignors to follow. Eighteen head are included in the Woodvale lot, with Goyamo, a leading contender for sophomore honors this year, conspicuous by his absence. The Goya II. colt was withdrawn from the vendue last week. Two more Woodvale three-year-olds, Allweeds and Boots Banner, also were taken out of the original consignment of 21. The Fasig-Tipton Co. again will conduct the sale, with top bidding expected to center about a trio of Woodvale performers, Next Page, Fancy Diver and Your Stockings, Jimmy Baxter, winner of more than 2,000 last year, and Lady Progress, a three-year-old Our Boots filly who has won two of her three starts this season, also are among the better horses in the group. Nineteen owners are represented by the 52 head to be auctioned in the horses-in-training sale. Dispersal sales of Tinkham Veale" II. and the Yolo Stable of Mr, and Mrs. John de Blois Wack feature this auction. Veale has consigned 14 head to the sale and Yolo Stable, nine. Go A Bit, a four-year-bid colt by Wait A Bit, is the likely star of the Veale consignment. The colt won 9,075 last year. Marked Game is another prominent member of the lot. Other stables represented in the sale are those of Samuel Denemark, Lou P. Doher-ty, W. M. Duryea, A. J. Fralinger, J. Houston, Lazy F Ranch, the estate of E. D. Levinson, Eugene Lutz, Mrs. John T. Ma-loney, John T. Maloney, C. E. Mather II., J. H. Miles. Roye P. Steckler, Mrs. S. G. Steckler, S. P. Steckler, and the White Oaks Stable of Arthur W. Abbott. Sweet Cleo, winner of the Hialeah Juvenile Stakes in 1953, is the lone horse consigned by Abbott. The three-year-old daughter of High Lea, last raced in the Betsy Ross Stakes at Garden State and was badly beaten.
