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Black-Eyed Susan Draws Nine Fillies High Voltage Tops Stake at Pimlico Blue Sparkler, Blue Banner, Sometime Thing Among Foes In Mile and Sixteenth Test By PALMER HEAGERTT Staff Correspondent PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 13.— The 0,000 added Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, formerly known as the Pimlico Oaks, will have its 31st running here Saturday afternoon and nine three-year-old fillies have been named to compete for the 7,100 winners share of the 6,300 gross purse. Foremost of the nominees for the mile and one-sixteenth test is last seasons juvenile filly champion High Voltage, from the Wheatley Stable of Mrs. H. C. Phipps. She will be ridden by Eddie Arcaro and will carry 121 pounds, as will each of her rivals. Rounding out the field for the first of three important fixtures offered by the Maryland Jockey Club on consecutive Saturdays are: Alfred G. Vanderbilts Sometime Thing, Rokeby Stables Blue Banner, Woodland Farms Blue Sparkler, Pin Oak Farms Bless Pat, Louis Lee Hag-gin, II.s Hen Party, Howell E. Jackson3 Villa, Reginald N. Websters Sorceress and Barclay Stables Reddy Ro. Won 67,825 Lost Year In annexing major honors last season among the juvenile lassies, High Voltage, a daughter of Ambiorix, accounted for the Rosedale, National Stallion filly division, Colleen, Matron and Selima Stakes and earned 67,825. After finishing fourth at six furlongs in her debut this season, Mr. Fitzs charge came back to account for the Acorn Stakes over Sometime Thing and others, being timed in 1:38% for the flat mile. Sometime Thing, who failed to campaign as a two-year-old, shapes up as one of the top members of her division this year. Prior to being beaten by High Voltage in the Acorn, the Discovery miss won five of nine races, including the Prioress, and was never worse than third. Eric Guerin, who won the Campbell Memorial with Social Outcast and the Governors Cup with Boston Doge in his two earlier visits to Maryland, will have the mount on Sometime Thing. Other juvenile stakes winners in the field are Blue Sparkler and Sorceress, both of whom were bred in New Jersey. Blue Sparkler, a daughter of Knave High, started only five times last season, accounting for the Homebred and the Wanda Stakes. She was awarded the top spot in the latter event through disqualification, then was taken out of first position in the New Jersey Futurity. Sorceress won a division of the Polly Drummond at Delaware Park and was in the money in four other stakes events. Blue Sparkler will be ridden by Glen Lasswell, while Charley OBrien will handle Sorceress. Blue Banner Set Back Speaking of the Wanda, as we were in regards to Blue Sparkler, the disqualified filly on that occasion was Blue Banner, a daughter of War Admiral. She was also second behind High Voltage in the Matron j last year and was a winner of her only | start this season. In that one she was timed in a mediocre 1:12%, while beating allowance ] company. Jimmy Nichols will do the riding for trainer Jim Ryan in the Susan. . Bless Pat and Hen Party are Kentucky J invaders, though the latter raced recently j in the Acorn at Belmont Park and was a J bang-up third behind High Voltage and | Sometime Thing in what was probably her best * effort. Bless Pat beat Courtesy in 1 :11ft at Keeneland, with the Kentucky Oaks winner, Lalun, among the also-rans. She « was later unplaced in the Ashland. Her jj Pimlico "blow-out was especially impressive £ and gained her many admirers. She !j will be ridden by Doug Dodson. Ted Atkinson will ride Hen Party. Villa, after graduating at Laurel, shipped t to New York and turned in a good effort . when beaten only three and one-half lengths in the Acorn. She was subsequently l third in overnight company and must be considered as an outsider, as must Reddy i Ro. The latter has been five times second i in 10 starts this season but has yet to j grace the winners circle. Clarence Picou ] has been named atop Villa, while Reddy Ro i is without a rider overnight.
