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Ten Ten Derby Derby Hopes Hopes Await Await Call Call to to Post; Post; Lea Lea Lane Lane Heads Heads Kentucky Kentucky Oaks Oaks Field Field Gets Top Impost With Insouciant Delta, Countess Mine, So, Filly o Mine, Mazza, Lalun And Aileghan Make Up Field By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville. Ky.. May 5.— The 5,000 Kentucky Oaks at one mile and one-sixteenths for three-year-old fillies will headline an attractive Derby eve program Friday at this ancient Blue Grass State racing grounds. The Oaks, as old as the Clark Handicap and Kentucky Derby, always has been one of the highlights of local spring seasons, and this years edition with nine starters promises one of the best renewals in the stakes long history. Under the allowance terms of the Oaks, ofttimes referred to as "The Filly Derby," Dr. Eslie Asburys Insouciant and Charlton Clays Lea Lane, a pair of homebreds, are highweighted at 121 pounds. Insouciant will race coupled with Ralph W. Mcllvains Aileghan. 116. while Mrs. Elizabeth H. Brisbines So, also pegged at 116, will be Lea Lanes running mate. Kirkland to Ride Aileghan Others expected to start in the Friday fixture are Hill-N-Dale Farms Countess Anita. Cain Hoy Stables Lalun. E. N. Anderson and G. C. Olsens Mazza, H. K. Goodpasters Filly o Mine, and Claiborne Farms Delta. Each of - these Oaks hopefuls will answer "boots and saddles" under 116-pound burdens. Howard Wells, widely known Lexington trainer, announced this morning that jockey Arnold Kirkland will have the mount on Aileghan and that Johnny Adams is to ride Insouciant. J. Price Sallee, who will saddle Lea Lane and So for their Oaks engagements, stated that Eddie Arcaro will handle Lea Lane, while Dave Erb pilots So, Henry Moreno is named on Lalun. Steve Brooks will be at Continued on Page Forty-Two , ! I 1 I , | | , , j j , ; , • • I Lea Lane and Insouciant Top Kentucky Oaks Field Delta, Alleghan and Countess Mine Also Among Nine Entered Continued from Page One the reins on Delta, Lois Cook on Mazza and Sherman Armstrong is to guide Filly o Mine. No reinsman had been named at a late hour today for Countess Anita, regarded as a doubtful starter. The 1955 Oaks will gross 0,150 with nine starters with the winners end amounting to 1,350, which figure is 50 •more than Maine Chance Farms Fascinator picked up lasC year on the race. Insouciant, a quick daughter of Nasrul-lah and Gala Belle, decisively defeated three of her Oaks rivals in Keenelands Ashland Stakes April 21; Lea Lane, Lalun and Delta were among those following her to the wire. The Asbury miss stepped that three-quarters mile in 1:10% under 112 pounds while enjoying a nine pounds weight advantage over Lea Lane and Delta. There is some question as to Insouciants ability to carry 121 pounds over the- Oaks route but she has trained splendidly and her stablemate, Alleghan, is one of the most improved fillies on the grounds. Clai-i borne Farms Courtesy finished second in the Ashland but, unfortunately, she is not in the Oaks overnight field. Lea Lane, third in the Lexington feature |and beaten approximately two lengths, is expected to show to better advantage over the longer Oaks route. An outstanding performer during her juvenile campaign, the Clay filly captured the Miss America Stakes, Pollyanna Stakes, and the Durazna Stakes, also placed in the Lassie, Mademoiselle, and Alcibiades, gleaning 9,067. I Delta, also the get of Nasrullah but from Bourtai, disappointed in an overnight event at Hialeah in January, then was soundly-1 trounced in the Ashland. After flashing , early foot in the latter test, the Claiborne Farm filly gave way and failed to beat a ■ starter. She definitely did not race near her top form but trainer Moody Jolley expects t her to show better in the Oaks. During her two-year-old season, Delta won both the Arlington Lassie, Princess Pat I and finished second in the Arlington .Futurity, earning 63,890.* I Delta had good speed this morning work-i ing four furlongs in :47% handily. I Filly o Mine, a daughter of Holdall and , Trasour, also was out for a half mile breeze, moving along in :49 under a rather snug hold. | Racing secretary-andicapper Lincoln G. Plaut arranged some excellent supporting attractions for "Oaks Day" and the initial offering on the gala nine race program will be called to the .post at 2:00 pjn. 1
