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Payment Due Tuesday For 1954 Selima Stakes Fall Juvenile Event at Laurel Expected to Gross Over 5,000 LAUREL, Md., June 11. Final nominations to the" Selima Stakes, one of the countrys most treasured two-year-old filly prizes, close at midnight Tuesday, June 15. This annual Laurel Race Course presentation will be offered for the 29th time during the fall meet October 16 through November 3. Two payments already "have been made for the mile and a sixteenth fixture, both drawing a" record number of entries. Upon payment of the initial fee of 0 in May, 1953, 648 then yearling fillies were made eligible Of this number, 0 antes were made in behalf of 387 two-year-old misses last January, bringing the total amount of nominating fees to 1,960. To this, plus the payment closing next Tuesday at 0, the Laurel association adds 0,000. With 50 to enter and the same amount to start, the Selima this year should gross approximately 5,000 with" the winner netting 5,000. " Among the more prominent two-year- old fillies remaining eligible after the winter payment are High Voltage, winner of the Rosedale Stakes and filly division of the National Stallion Stakes; Gambetta, victor in the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs and Fantime Busher, who accounted for one division of the Polly Drummond. The first payment for the 1955 Selima, which closed, recently, drew 635 nominations including the one for the yearling full sister to Native Dancer. Also named were fillies out of Athene, Bee Ann. Mac and Big Hurry, all Selima winners as juveniles.
