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Nine in Hollywood Oaks With Call to Solid Miss Alberta Ranches Madam Jet Is Main Threat to Curlane Runner HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., June 20. The tenth running of the Hollywood Oaks, premiere event of the summer racing in the West for three-year-old fillies, is the headliner for Tuesdays program at this beautiful track in the thriving suburban city of Inglewood. Nine sprightly fillies were named overnight to contest the race, which carries a value of 5,000 in added money and will net the winner 5,250. Commenting strictly "on paper," the plum appears to rest between Mrs. Harry Curlands Solid Miss and Alberta Rranches Madam Jet. However, Juzeler and Collins Baby Alice, E. F. Smiths Sinful and Auntie Bell, coupled as an entry; Llangollen Farms Week-End, Jack McElroys Real Blend, M. J. Elmores Noordown, and C. R. Armstrongs Naughty Mary, completing the line-up, must all be given a chance, since fillies are traditionally undependable, sometimes running far below or high above their best efforts. The clocking brigade and the so-called expert handicappers stoutly maintain, however, that the Oaks lies between Solid Miss and Madam Jet, with a majority favoring the former. In the first place, Solid Miss gets nine pounds from Madam Jet, and nine pounds can become a whale of a burden in the last sixteenth of a mile in a nine-furlong grind, such as this. Also, Solid Miss in her last outing, only six days ago, packed 118 pounds six more than shes asked to tote Tuesday a mile in a sizzling 1:35, reportedly the fastest mile in history for a three-year-old filly in the spring of the year. Solid Miss has never won a stake, nor has she even placed in one. For that matter, she has never tried her wings in -one. On the other hand, she will be going up against a comparative veteran when she tackles Madam Jet. The latter filly has won two stakes, the Sea Breeze this summer and the Junior Miss last year, bit off pieces of last years Cinderella and Hollywood Lassie and later on the Del Mar Debutante, the latter of which she was unlucky to lose to Fair Molly, as she raced extremely wide.
