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Regret at Monmouth Park Tests 14 Fillies and Mares Evening Out, Gandharva, To Cash, Another World to Match Strides By WILLIAM C. PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N." J., June 17. The 4,350 Regret Handicap, honoring the New Jersey-bred filly who was the only one of her sex to ever win a Kentucky Derby, has brought together a sharp and classy band of 14 modem-day misses to compete here Saturday. Mrs. George D. Wideners Evening Out, champion juvenile filly of 1953, heads the field for this seventh running under 122 pounds. She will attempt to concede from five to 16 pounds over six furlongs and will be ridden by Sam Boulmetis, who is the leading stakes-winning jockey in New Jersey this season. The Regret, which has never been won by a mediocre performer, will be worth 7,100 to the winner if all start. Brookmeade Stables Gandharva, the only three -year-old in the Regret, was weighted by racing secretary John Turner, Jr., at 115 m Continued on Page Three 4 Fourteen Fillies, . Mares Seek Regret f Evening Out, Gandharva, To Cash, Another World Clash at Monmouth Park Continued from Page One pounds. On .the weight scale as different t from the revise.d Jockey Club scale, places Gandharva three pounds above the four-year-old Evening Out. The daughter of Olympia and Psychist has won four of her five starts this season and she is the prob- able post-time favorite. She will be ridden by Hedley Woodhouse. To Cash, who races under the Woodland Farm silks of Monmouth Park president Amory L. Haskell, is to carry 117 pounds , with Ken Church as her rider. Walter J. Appels Another World follows with 116, then comes Darby Dan Farms Clear Dawn and Christopher T. Chenerys Talora, both 115. George Glassner will pilot Talora. No v jockeys were named for Another World and Clear Dawn, but they probably will be handled by Norman Cox and W. Bryce Williams, respectively. Evening Out won four races last year including the Monmouth Oaks. She has been sharp at the sprints this spring and she has carried high weights well, but she t failed to show any spirit in the mile and a sixteenth Top Flight Handicap and fin-j ished eighth. Another World Fourth Another World finished fourth in the Top Flight, three and three-quarter lengths t from the record-breaking Parlo, and Talora finished sixth, beaten seven and a quarter lengths. Ros Clag had early speed, but v wound up last, and Joseph M. Roeblings Crisset, in the Regret at 111, also dropped. i back to finish tenth. Another World not only gave a good effort in the Top Flight while suffering slight interference in the upper stretch, but she probably was best. In her prior start in the six-furlong Colonial Handicap at Garden State Park, she was blocked and stopped cold" turning for home, but recovered to be beaten only a neck by the surprise winner, Royal Fan. The latter four-year-old, who races for M. S. Gold-namer, has dependable speed and she re- t ceived five pounds from Another World. Tomorrow she is in the Regret with 112 and will be ridden by Logan Batcheller. Gandharva won the Betsy Ross at Garden State in her last start. She shouldered 121 pounds against contemporaries of her sex and won by two lengths in 1:10. Although this was two-fifths of a second slower than Royal Fans Colonial, the Brookmeade filly was by far the most im- i pressive in Iw triumph. The four-year-old To Cash has been somewhat of a Jersey sensation this spring. She has won three of her four starts, all in fast times, and had her only defeat , when she lost her rider leaving the gate of her second outing. Clear Dawn finished third to To Cash in a prep here last week. It was her first start since last winter and it should have done f well as a tightener. Talora has only one triumph in six starts this year. She won that race at Garden State by eight lengths, t but this was the event in which To Cash lost her rider and she impeded several , horses running loose behind Talora who might have otherwise threatened.
