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- . 4 New England By Joe Hirsch Area Has Several Potential Stars Star Rover, Decathlon Among Tops Dark Charger, Amyn Bey Are Listed NARRAGANSETT PARK, Pawtucket, R. I., June 22. Ever so often a horse like Little Beans or Boston Doge or Blessbull will come put of New England to wiri stakes up and down the East Coast and underline to racing fans everywhere the fact that some pretty fine horses are stabled in Yankee barns. This year, in particular, New Engenders are invading tracks in other sectors with a good measure of success and additional sorties are on the way. Star Rover Mrs. Irving Gushens fleet gray, three-year-old, who took Monmouths Select in handy 1 fashion last week, has remained over at 1 the New Jersey course and will go in Saturdays 0,000 Lamplighter. If the Flushing n. colt comes out of this one in good condition, he is scheduled to ship to Chi- : cago for Arlington Parks 5,000 Warren Wright at-seven furlongs on July 2 and then contest Saratogas 5,000 Saranac a a mile and a sixteenth on July 23. Eddie Anspach calls this one the best sophomore hes ever trained. Decathlon River Divides club-footed son of Olympia Dog Blessed, unbeaten in three starts including a stakes score in Suffolks Bay State Kindergarten, was a 5,500 purchase at the sales last year and appears a cinch to make that a sound investment. Hell start in Saturdays Narragansett Nursery, then go to Monmouth Park for the 5,000 added Tyro Stakes on July 4 and remain in " Oceanport through August 8 for the Sapling, a 0,000 added affair at six furlongs. From Jersey, Decathlon will be sent to Saratoga for the traditional two-year-old events. Dark Charger Murlogg Farms Depth Charge miss now won four of five outings, including Delaware Parks Polly Drum-mond, always a highly competative race. Her lone second was to Decathlon at Suffolk Downs. Shell go in Monmouth Parks Colleen on July 2 and if she handles that assignment satisfactorily, she will see action in Saratogas Adirondack Stakes on July 27. and the Schuylerville, also at the Spa, on August 8. Both are 0,000 features at five and a half furlongs. Amyn Bey John CavaPs handsome four-year-old, a son of the 1948 French Derby winner, Bey, beat Prince Hill and other capable performers in the Commonwealth, a turf course stake at Suffolk Downs and won three other events on the dirt this spring. He is named for Monmouths 0,000 Longfellow on June 29 but trainer Leo Garrity may bypass that race in favor of the rich Governors Handicap- at Narragansett on July 2. Amyn Bey, purchased from Darby Dan in Florida during the winter of 1954, never raced at two, broke his maiden at Rockingham last summer, then popped an osselet. He was returned to training this spring and has done nothing but good since. Around the Track: Ed Pons, Dom Lobraico and Fly Gilbert came down from Rockingham Park to clear up the stall assignments at the New Hampshire course. Pons reports that a number of outfits presently stabled at Delaware Park will ship North over the July 4 week end for the Rocks summer meeting. . . . Lucien Laurin j returned to New York after a visit with ! his son Roger Woody Sedlacek and his new bride, the former Sue McDonald, returned from a brief honeymoon in New York. . . . Robert Dienst, master of River Divide Farm, will fly to Providence from Columbus, Ohio, Saturday to root for his Decathlon in the Nursery. . . . Charley Smith, racing secretary at Scarborough I Downs and presently serving in an official capacity at Cumberland, will be at his desk at the Maine plant during the first week in July, the meeting opening July 18. Stall man Bob Phaneuf notes that Scarboroughs stable area will be open to receive horses on June 27. Bill LaRue is planning to ship B. A. Darios Venomous, a Mel Hash filly, to Monmouth Park for the Colleen Stakes. ... In order to get Montpeliers Joe Mergler and exercise boy Nick Tromero on a television show with Judge Dooley last night, publicity man Billy Ames had Continued on Page Fifty-One New England By JOE H1RSCII Continued from Page Seven see that Saratoga "cleaned up" his feed. Henry Kimball has returned his good mare Witches Choice from Jack Wards Acres Farm in New Rochelle, N. Y where she went to the, court of Wait A Bit. Both of her previous foals are winners. . . . Darrell Madden is riding in some of the best form of his extensive career. ... Papa Redbird sired a third, pf the 12-horse field in yesterdays second race, including the winner, I. C. McMahans Bird Bell. , . . The veteran rider Harold Keene has scored in the "getaway" race for the last three days. . . . Harry Hollander has taken over the engagement book of. Mickey Thomas, who is under contract to Bill, Hinphy. . . . Vernon Bush will ride J. and P. Venutis Pipe of Peace in the 25,000 Governors Handicap on July 2. . . . Ty Shea is studying designs for an SNARO pin, submitted by a prominent jewelry manufacturer. .. Stu Gorman, the handicapper, will celebrate a birthday Thursday, but the number of candles on the cake remains classified information. ! . ,
