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Feminine Feminine Speedsters Speedsters in in Honeymoon; Honeymoon; Peter Peter Pan Pan Handicap Handicap Engages Engages Eight Eight Ask Queen Hopeful to Tote Impost of 121 at Washington Blue Violin, Insouciant and i Mimi Mine Enter Balmoral Stake With Recent Scores By J. J. MURPHY WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, 111., June 3— Hasty House Farms-Queen Hopeful and George Cavanaughs Blue Violin, a pair of four-year-olds, head the list of 13 fillies and mares entered to face for a 5,-000 added purse in the Honeymoon Stakes, that will have its first running here Saturday. They are the highweights in . the seven-furlong affair, with Queen Hopefuls 121 pounds being three more than Blue Violin will be required to carry. If the full field should go, the Honeymoon win gross 8,850, With 7,325 net to the winner. Rounding out the Honeymoon field are Mrs. O. C. Neumanns Beanir, E. H. Stones Rare Music, Virginia Schwabs Vixen Fixit, Mrs. Herbert Herffs Mimi Mine, Dr. Eslie Asburys Insouciant, Mrs. Vera Smiths Lori Jane, Merle Mitchells Cosentina, Peretz-and Mavros Outsmart, Mrs. E. Kendall Weils Centenaire, Reverie Knoll Farms Siskey, and Calumet Farms Bubbley. Scored in Suwannee River Handicap Queen Hopeful, who made her first start in a couple of months here recently and finished fourth in a six furlongs, dash won by Blue Violin»_has amassed greater earnings than any of her rivals. She has a stakes "victory to her credit this year, hav ing won the Suwannee River Handicap at Gulfstream. It was her lone" triumph in five attempts. Last year the Hasty House miss took -the Black-Eyed Susan, the Florida Oaks, and the Orchid Stakes, and as a two-year-old annexed the Arlington Lassie and the Princess Pat in this territory. John Adams will be her rider. Blue Violin, who took both the Cleopatra at Arlington and the Misty Isle at Washington Park as a three-year-old last season, was very convincing in her winning effort here. She is a fast,_ courageous filly J Continued on Page Forty -Fhe DR. ESLIE ASBURY — His homebred Insouciant is one of the choices in to-. days inaugural running of the Honey- -moon Stakes on Balmorals program. Feminine Speed Artists In Balmorals Honeymqon Queen Hopeful, Blue Violin and Insouciant Ready for Battle Royal Continued from Page One who will have a good rider on her back in Chris Rogers, a virtual newcomer to saddle ranks here this season. Blue Violin made arunaway of her last, which was at six furlongs in the mud. She carried 111 pounds. Bubbley, a five-year-old who was a top performer here early in her career and later tailed off, appears to be on the comeback trail. Her best race this season was a second to her stablemate, Lap Full, at Keerieland. She won the Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park last summer, and if near her best is capable of turning in a fine effort. Bennie Green will be the jockey, and Bubbley is third highweight with 116. Beanir, winner of five races last year, has yet to score this season. She was fourth and seventh in races won by Lap Full in Kentucky this spring. She will be niloted by Dave Erb. Rare Music, recently finished fourth in a mud race won by Busrledrums. She has started 11 times in 1955 and has four victories. She was successful in a division of the Columbiana Handicap and failed in two stakes engagements in Maryland. Mimi Mine was a clever victress at six furlongs here last Tuesday. It was her first conquest in four starts this year. Her Rest race in 1954 was a second back of Pickles Image in the Modesty Handicap at Arlington Park. .Don Scurlock will ride Mimi Mine. Vixen Fixit was sixth hack of Mimi Mine last time out and will have J. Rloh Adams up. Insouciant is the only three-year-old in Mle Honeymoon field. The daughter of Npsrullah eked out a narrow victory_over "Robbelle in the Coronet Stakes here last p.turday. Earlier she took the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland. Lori-Jane is making h*r Balmoral debut. She comes from Churchill Downs, where she registered one victory in three starts. Cosentina has been in the money in each of her last five outings; Outsmart was un-nlaced in the recent race won by Blue 1 Violin; Centenaire won at Hialeah for her. single success in four tries; and Siskey was -h-f.h here in a race won by Soartan Jett. Post time for the first event on Saturdays nine-race bill will be 1:45 p.m.
