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; 1 1 1 ; ; : J . 1 Helioscope Named For Michigan Mile Prospects of Helis Racer Starting, in 0,000 Test At Detroit Are Excellent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 18. Helioscope, a 4-year-old colt who is the current sensation in the nations handicap ranks, is named for the 0,000 Michigan Mile at the Detroit Race Course on July 9. Track officials disclosed Helioscopes nomination today in advance of their release of the full nomination list for Michigans richest horse race. The complete list, which usually includes 50 or 60 names, will be announced later next week after late mail has had sufficient time to reach racing secretary Charles J. McLennans office. In addition to Helioscope, four other early nominees were revealed: Spur On, the 1954 Michigan Mile champion; Second Avenue, the 1953 Michigan Mile victor; Precious Stone, second in 1954, and Eljay, who placed in 1953. Helioscopes nomination by owner William G. Helis, Jr., gives this years edition of the Mile perhaps the most "glamorous" older horse active at the present time. Running at four different eastern tracks, Helioscope has won four of five handicap! races and in so doing, set three track records and equaled another one, all at different distances. 126-Pound Impost for Race Nomination doesnt guarantee Helioscopes actual starting in the Mile, but prospects for his going in the race are excellent. Helioscope is scheduled to run at Monmouth Park "next Wednesday and in the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct July 4. On July 9 his trainer most choose between the 0,000 Brooklyn Handicap, at a mile and a quarter in New York, or the rich local stake. What may prove a determining factor is that by conditions of the Mile he would carry only 126 pounds as compared to probable higher impost in the Brooklyn. Helioscope came into real prominence during the last half of 1954. He is a son of Heliopolis War Flower, by Man o War, and was purchased as a yearling at the Lexington fall sales for 7,000. As a two-year-old he won a single race before going amiss. He was turned back to the farm for the rest of the year. He began his three -year.-old campaign by winning allowance races, and by the end of 1954 had been ranked among the best three-year-olds in the country. But this yeark at the age of four, he has been a top performer. At Bowie he packed 128 pounds and established a track record of 1:22 -for seven furlongs. At Garden State he shouldered 130. pounds and set a record of 1:40 for a mile and 70 yards. At Suffolk Downs he shattered the mile and a quarter mark to 2:01; and in the recent Suburban Handicap at Belmont went the 10 furlongsin 2:00 to equal Tom Fools record there. Helioscope has started 20 times during his career, winning 14, running second Continued on Page Fifty-One , I 1 i 1 I j i i I ! - , 7 1 3 8 7 I 8 3 1 I 8 3 0 7 5 n 8 B 8 8 7 8 9 8 1 9 9 Nominate Helioscope For Michigan Mile Prospects of Helis Racer Going In 0,000 Race Are Excellent Continued tiom Page One for the place honors and, although no match for the flying winner, she was not under strong pressure to easily trim the tiring Foxie Jeanie. Second Avenue, who has failed to race to top form during the current meeting, was a soundly-beaten fifth while Sub Factor failed to stay after his brief display of early foot. Hangover was a keen disappointment in the race. The Singer colt, an outstanding performer in Florida during the winter, flashed speed in the initial earlier furlongs, then faded winding up badly beaten. Gem Path, a well-conformed gray filly, the get of Royal Gem II. and Dense Path, carried T. Alie Grissoms silks successfully in the five furlongs third, race which matched eight two-year-olds. Closing extremely well under apprentice Larry Gilli- gan, the locally-owned winner was along; in the last sixteenth to beat Rae-Janet Stables Ray n Jay by three-quarters of a length. James Paddocks Fraluxe, who raced coupled with Gem Path, finished third a similar distance back and a half length on Albert F. Walls Key Biscayne, fourth in the juvenile dash. Gem Path, a winner at Golden Gate Fields before her transfer to the Detroit course, stepped along in 1:00 over the firm footing. The Grissom and Paddock entry was favored at 23-to-10. Miller Stables Kentuckian and Anthony Graffagninis Coteaux Boy dominated the running to the stretch while Ray n Jay raced third within striking distance of the leaders. Gem Path and Fraluxe were no better than sixth and seventh, respectively, in the initial three furlongs. During the drive, Ray n Jay forged to the front, but Gem Path closed with a fine burst of speed, ample to nip the Rae-Janet Stable filly for major honors. Fraluxe came from well back to garner . the show while Key Biscayne gave a good performance for fourth. Mrs. Thomas G. Mays High Lama, handled by little Johnny Sellers, beat a capacity field of platers in the six-furlongs opener while Jennings Stables Great Oak Flare, ridden by Hiram Tacket, was best of the 12 ordinary middle distance racers meeting in the one mile and one-sixteenth second. High Lama, better than 8-to-l and Greatoak Flare, a rank outsider at 7 straight, were good -for a 01.80 Daily Double pay-off. ; - ; I . , , s r ; a , . 1 Y k -
