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Sharbot Seeks Fourth Tally at Detroit Meet in Plymouth High Twelve Purse Rose Leaves Stakes Victress Has Bated Breath, Beanir Among Her Six Female Foes By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 28. Tamarack Stables Sharbot, a speedy four-year-old daughter of Pavot and Bright Blue, heads a field of seven classy fillies and mares scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon in the Plymouth High Twelve Purse. Under the allowance conditions of the six-furlong feature, the Tamarack Stable miss will shoulder equal high weight of 117 pounds with G. Y. Bookers hard-hitting Mad Hare. Trainer C. P. Sowers, who conditions Sharbot, also will send Starboard Stables Bafed Breath along with Sharbot and the former mare gets in the dash with 114 pounds. Sharbot unquestionably will go to the post the favorite. The Tamarack filly, a bargain claim in Florida last April for a ,000 price tag, has shown steady improvement under Sowers tutelage and captured the fifth running of the 0,000 Rose I I Leaves Stakes here on June 19, defeating, among others, Sun Tan Gal, Task Fleet, Slippy, Sickles Image, Mad Hare, and Mrs. Otto C. Neumanns three-year-old, Beanir, who is slated to try Sharbot again Tuesday under a 110-pound impost. Sharbot also scored in two other Detroit engagements since her transfer here from the. Sunshine State. She trimmed a quick field of fillies and mares June 14 in the three-quarters mile Lincoln Study Club Purse and,- previous to that winning performance, annexed an overnight event May 26. Bated Breath, a seven-year-old mare, the get of Okapi and Delma Dunn, raced disappointingly here last week end in the Port Huron Purse, which marked her first appearance under silks since February. The Starboard Stable sprinter probably needed that race for it must be remembered that she was good enough during her 1953 campaign to register a "six-five-six" record against sharp opposition. Bated Breath earned 9,340 last year and she is expected Continued on Page Twenty-Eight I Sharbot Seeks Fourth Win of Detroit Meet Rose Leaves Stakes Victress Has Six Rivals of Sex to Beat Today Continued from Page One to give an improved performance in the Tuesday headliner. Jockey Harold Keene will have the mount on one of the Sowers-trained starters, Sharbot or Bated Breath. Mad Hare, sired by Hairan and from Maddie, caught "off" tracks in her last two Detroit starts and failed ta-race to her best form. The Booker mare, a good winner in New England earlier this year, bowed to Polemos by a nose margin in the one mile Northfield Purse on May 26 and that was her top effort since the eastern conquest. During 1953, she earned over 9,000 after posting five victories, two seconds and four thirds. She will be ridden in the Tuesday sprint by her regular reins-man, clever Tommy Barrow. Completing the likely Plymouth High Twelve Purse starting band will be Miss Etta B. McAtees homebred Darkie, 111; W. Strongs Cliic Wave, 108, and Mrs. George C. Whites Trip Lightly, pegged with a feathery 104 pounds. Jockey Lois Cook, who took over the top spot in the Detroit Race Course riding standings last Saturday afternoon, will have the mount on Trip Lightly. Bobby Baird, displaced by Cook for major saddle honors, is to pilot Darkie in the Tuesday attraction, Manuel Gonzalez rides Beanir and Howard Craig is engaged for Chic Wave. Best supporting number on the Tuesday card is the three-quarters mile fifth, which matches an even dozen useful sprinters, iour-year-olds and upward. Included in the overnight field is R. T. McDonnels Buster Jim, a good class winner at seven furlongs during the Lincoln Fields meeting. Buster Jim, who will be ridden by Dick Lawless, probably will receive his sternest rivalry in the secondary offering from James Paddocks Nepal, Theodore D. Buhls Astounding, MacGregor and Arnolds Test Pattern, i Triple R Stables p Moon i Love, and Grace " Kosibas Bolo Boy., -
