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Dozen Dozen Face Face Hasty Hasty Road Road in in Wright-Money Wright-Money Broker Broker Totes Totes 140 140 at at Detroit Detroit Hi-Weight Sprint To Bring Out Ten Pictus Has 132, Triumphant 130 to Shoulder; Co-Feature Has Sickles Image in Field By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 25. The ,500 Bull Dog Hi-Weight Handicap and the Port Huron Purse will share the spotlight at this spacious Michigan mile track Saturday afternoon on quite the finest program of the current meeting. G and G Stables Money Broker will Tiead a field of 10 quick sprinters engaged for the five and one-half furlongs Bull Dog Hi-Weight while Clarence Hartwicks Sickles Image, 1953 "Mare of the Year," tops a band of six fleet performers entered in the six furlongs Port Huron Purse. The G and G establishment, maintained by the Detroiters, Edward Grosfield and T. Abe Gnssom, holds a royal chance for success m the Bull Dog Hi-Weight, despite Money Brokers bulky top weight burden of 140 pounds. The topweighted colt, a four-year-old son of Half Crown and Chartreuse n., won the 1953 Florida Derby and this year sports a "three-two-three" record which includes conquests in Fu1 V? Lexington Handicap and the 1954 edition of the F. M. Alger Mp-morial e Handicap. Big Heart Accompanies Money Broker Money Broker will have a useful running mate in Big Heart, a three-year-old Seven Hearts-sired filly, pegged at 124 pounds The G and G miss raced fmpressively during her juvenile campaign and she was a fair class winner at the local oval early this month. While she is not rated too dangerous, Big Heart has a high flight early speedy and she may be able to steaJI ffiffaSSe?0 " Ut Ver the Sh0rt iJf ?righfc leadinand conditioner at the Detroit Race Course, announced this UluS jockey Bobby Baird, who be-f,S?J?-e llday card tied with Lois Cook SfV dg honors wU1 have the mount on either Money Broker or Big Heart Major opposition for the G and Gpair in the Bull Dog Hi-Weight probably will be furnished by Ralph Lowes Pictus 132- Irr L -M- J- Bo.ylan s Paytu, an invader from Chicago, assigned 128 pounds. Others entered m the half-holiday co-feature aS I. J. Collins Fair Pilot, 130; Thomas F. Continued on Page Fifty-Three sk Money Broker b Shoulder 140 Faces Nine Fast Opponents In Detroit Hi-Weight Test; .Sickles Image in Co-Feature Continued from Page One svereux homebred Greatest, 128; Arthur jses Michigan-owned Vie, 125; Mrs. D. MacLachlans Heart Flash, 128, and Fox ivert Farms stakes-winning three-year-f filly, Cimmerona, 125 pounds. Pictus, a handsome six-year-old Pictor-ed stallion, won four races last year and lis far this season visited the winners lg on no less than six occasions. The we representative did just about every-ing asked of him in New England before ipment to the Motor City and posted jr straight victories at distances rang-l from three-quarters mile to one mile, iting such rivals as Grover B., Pipe of ace, Dr. Moore, Hiram, Jr., and Simms, jong others. He was also a good winner ?ing the New Orleans Fair Grounds win- meeting. Willard Proctor, who arrived here today m Delaware Park, will saddle Pictus and ited that jockey Joe Valenti will pilot his arge in the Saturday stake, rriumphant, one of the stars in the previous Forrest string, is a four-year-old ded son of Bull Briar and Three O Three. l outstanding and consistent racer during ; three-year-old campaign, Triumphant red in eight engagements, was seven les second and four times third against 5 best in the three-year-old division. In ; only local appearance this season, he ired a front-running verdict over Great-,, Princess Trace, Fiddle, Fair Pilot and ler quick sprinters in the six furlongs sa Purse. :nsmcm to Ride Triumphant Lawrence Hansmanwill be at the reins Triumphant, Forrest Kaelin rides Fair ot and jockey Cook is engaged for Vie. lil Roy will planein to guide Paytu and mmy Barrow is to handle Cimmerona. reinsman had been named late today Greatest and Heart Flash, but it is ie likely that jockey Charles Swain or xy West will be up on Greatest. Uthough Sickles Image went down to eat here last week end in the Rose ives Stakes, the Hartwick mare un-ibtedly will go to the post choice over Port Huron company. Winner of over 0,000 in both her 1952 and 1953 cam-gns, the Hartwick star, a daughter of keltoy and the late Ariel Image, prob-y needed her race last Saturday, her ;t appearance under silks this year. Un- the allowance terms of the Port Huron, kles Image will shoulder 120 pounds 1 she will have the saddle services of key Swain, one of the best journeymen e riders of the past decade. Irs. J. H. Woodcocks Epic King, a four-r-old Kings Blue gelding, co-holder with eet Patootie of the local five furlongs ck record, gets in the Port Huron with pounds and he rates a great chance to et Sickles Image. Lightly-campaigned : season, the Woodcock gelding earned jor honors in three of his 10 starts i he romped to an easy triumph here ently in the three-quarters mile Gratiot se. taleigh Dees, who has done a splendid with the Woodcock Stable thorough-ds, engaged jockey Cook to handle Epic ig in the Saturday sprint, n the field named to oppose Sickles ige and Epic King are Fiddle, a member the Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffer unit, 119, ssell B. Walters Fly Lelia, 108, Star-rd Stables Bated Breath, an outstand-mare, favorably weighted at 111 nds, and Mrs. George C. Whites im-ved Nocallula, 114 pounds, lacing secretary-handicapper Charles Lennan and the members of his staff grammed seven excellent supporting at-:tions and the first of. these will be ed to the post promptly at 2 p. m.
