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Nashua Nashua Meets Meets 10 10 m in Belmont Belmont: Balmoral Balmoral Handicap Handicap Draws Draws 13 13 Mister Black, Sea O Erin Duo Choice Hasty House Pair Vies With Mark-Ye-Well, County Clare In 9,300 Grass Feature | By J. J. MURPHY WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, III., June 10. — Hasty House Farms will be seeking its third stake victory of the meeting when a pair of thoroughbred stars from its stable go to the post in the 0,000 added Balmoral Turf Handicap here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Allie Reuben, owners of Hasty House, will have Mister Black, winner of the Continental Turf Hand :ap, and Sea O Erin, winner of the Citation Handicap, in the field and they will be burdened with top weight, Mister Black being required to carry 122 pounds, and Sea O Erin. 120. The race will be at and three-sixteenths miles, on the turf ,. A if all start, will gross 9,300, with ne to the winner being 6,200. WiseMargin Carries 118 Pitted against the Hasty House duo will be 11 other good distance performers, the majority of which have shown a liking for the grass. Calumet Farm Stable high-money earner, Mark-Ye-Well, will be in the field with 112 pounds; San Tufanos Wise Margin, victorious in numerous added money races in the past, will carry 118; Brookmeade Stables County Clare will have 114, and his running mate, Tritium. 111. Smoke Screen, a Chicago favorite, will tote 113: Hasseyampa will have 115; Two Fisted, 112; and Bugledrums, a surprise entry, will be the lightweight with 104. Acirln frnm TVTJr-f o.. TD!„ 1. ~ ; i _ j iviioitj. iJiath, Hie 1IUJJU1 l/CU racers in the line-up are Cascanuez, also a South American, who will carry 117; Blue Choir, from Ireland, who will have 110 pounds up; and Salmon Peter, likewise from the Emerald Isle, who will carrv 103. t [ Continued on Page Eleven i — . Thirteen Compete In Balmoral Cap Mister Black-Sea 0 Erin Duo Fayored to Down Fpes In 9,300 Turf Feature Continued from Page One Eastern jockeys, in especially for the contest, are Bobby Ussery, New England favorite, who will ride Cascanuez, and Willie Boland, who will have the mount on County Clare. With Steve Brooks slated to ride Sea O Erin, it may be that a jockey from the East will be imported to handle Mark-Ye-Well. John Adams will have the mount on Mister Black. Other riding assignments are John Heckmann, on Tritium; Don Wagner, on Two Fisted; Ronnie Baldwin, on Blue Choir; Al Popara, on Bugledriims; Willie Carstens, on Smoke Screen; Billie Fisk, on Hasseyampa; Keith Stuart, on Wise Margin; and William McKinley Cook, on Salmon Peter. Mister Black returns to competition after having been idle for a brief spell due to a slight injury. He proved to be back in shape when he took a satisfactory workout on the grass Thursday. He was very impressive in equalling the track record for one and one-eighth miles on the turf in winning the Continental, in which Blue Choir was third; Hasseyampa, fourth; Salmon Peter, fifth; and Sea O Erin, seventh. Mister Black registered by three and one-half lengths from Streaking. Five-Time Stake Winner in 1955 Although Sea O Erin has taken five stakes this season, he has never shown a partiality for grass racing. He had speed in the Continental but stopped badly. One week later he came back with an excellent effort to take the Citation, one mile on the main track, by four lengths. The Balmoral entrants behind him were Two Fisted, who was second; Smoke Screen, who finished 10th; Hasseyampa, who was 12th, and Wise Margin, who was 13th and last. His best grass effort was fourth back of Cascanuez in the Bougainvillea in Florida. Wise Margins last effort was far from his best. This will mark his first grass track essay. Prior to being shipped to Washington Park, Wise Margin finished third back of Helioscope and Social Outcast in the Massachusetts Handicap. He won the Letellier Handicap at the Fair Grounds and the Plymouth Rock Handicap at Suffolk Downs before that. Cascanuez comes to Chicagoland fresh from a good second back of Maharajah in the Macomber Memorial at Suffolk Downs. This will -be the veteran runners first appearance here. His race in the Bougainvillea, in Florida, was a good one. County Clare was ninth in that affair in which Cascanuez was the favorite and carried 122 pounds for the mile and three-sixteenths distance; County Clare has but 113, and Sea O Erin, 113. He was later unplaced in the mile and a half Hialeah Turf Handicap, but was favored over Stan, the 1954 grass champion, who won the event. Mark-Ye-Well returns to the course Continued on Page Fifty-Nine 9,300 Balmoral Handicap Oyer Turf Attracts Thirteen Continued from Page Eleyen where he was outstanding two years ago, winning -the American Derby. He px-oved his liking for the greensward in the San Marcos at Santa Anita last year when he established a new American turf record for one and one-quarter miles. He has not been successful in 10 outings this season, but recently ran a creditable race to finish fourth in the Suburban. County Clare split Stan and Brush Bum in the Meadowland Handicap here last year and has not been victorious on the turf since winning the Boardwalk Handicap at Atlantic City last season. His last score was in a six-furlong sprint at Belmont in late April. His running companion, Tritium, took the Philadelphia Turf Handicap last year. Hassetyairfpa? is* startingoh thef gifaands for the second time. The four-year-old has had three outings this season, all at the • current meeting. Smoke Screen has not won this year, but was a fast closing second to Scent in the six-furlong opening day La Salle Handicap. He -was also second to Sea O Erin in the Ben Ali at Keeneland. Two Fisted ran one of his best races to be second to Sea O Erin in the Citation and surprised in beating St. Vincent in Florida. Blue Choir beat lesser company on the grass recently; Bugledrums beat rather ordinary company, in the -nnua there r tma :Samor, Ftfer has failed in his two attempts.
