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Rose Leaves Stakes Day To Have Feminine Accent Sickles Image Expected to Make Seasonal Bow in Saturdays Race DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 12. Twenty-three fillies and mares have been nominated for the Rose Leaves Stakes on June 19, a race chat will run on a day at the Detroit Race Course kbe when much of the accent will be feminine. Something new in the clubhouse area from 12:45 to 1:30 pjn. will be a fashion show produced by Saks Fifth Avenue on Rose Leaves Stakes Day. Special guests of the day will be delegates to the national convention of Theta Sigma Phi, national journalism sorority which will be in session in Detroit at that i time. The third race on the program will L be named in the sororitys honor. Delegates . will be guests of the Detroit Race , I Course for luncheon before the races, and for a private showing of the latest fashions. The Rose Leaves Stakes is ah allowance I stake of six furlongs for a purse of 0,000 added. It is exclusively for fillies 5 and mares and has been run four times 5 previously in Michigan. Foremost in the nominations for next t Saturdays renewal is Clarence Hartwicks 5 Sickles Image. She was "mare of the year" in 1953 and needs but 0,000 more to j pass Bewitch, and become the richest k money-winning mare of all-time. Hartwick hasnt started his distinguished turf queen in 1954 and as far as is now known, the Rose Leaves will be her first appearance this season. Furnishing opposition to Sickles Image in the Rose Leaves renewal will be such fleet "ladies of the turf" as Mad Hare, Bloom, Task Fleet, Beanir, Sun Tan Gal, Bated Breath and Princess Trace, among others.
