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Garden State Opens Jersey Season Spring Turf Handicap Laurel Finale Eight to Compete For Honors Today Jabneh Probable Favorite To Turn Back Lofty Peak Blue Choir Marys Bubble BubbleBy By PALMER HEAGERTY HEAGERTYLAUREL LAUREL Md May 3 Featuring the closingday program at the Maryland State Fair Inc course Saturday is the inaugural running of the 10000 added Laure Spring Turf Handicap a test of about a mile and onesixteenth over the grass With an over ¬ night field of eight grass specialists the race will gross 11840 with the successful owner netting 8220 of the 8340 winners purse purseHighweight Highweight starter in the field under 123 pounds will be Mrs Eugenia E Bank heads Jabneh who will be conceding two pounds to Ct Mahion Klines Lofty Peak and five pounds to Mrs Harry L Na then sons Blue Choir Other entrants with their weight assignments are Doug R Smalls Aeschylus 114 Cockfield Stables Akbar Khan 113 Mrs J R H Thourons Lough Ree 112 Eugene P OConnells Marys Bubble 111 and Mrs Priscilla J Mitchells poundsJabneh TVoody Glen 110 pounds Jabneh who gained his initial stakes success in a division of the 1956 Longfellow Handicap at Monmouth Park earned his most noteworthy score during the past win ¬ ter beating a select field in the 75000 Hia leah Turf Handicap His only start since that time was over the main track at Gulf stream where he was well out of ijie money in the Southern Cross Handicap Shipped from New Jersey especially for the occa ¬ sion the Bimelech fiveyearold will be ridden by Arnold Kirkland KirklandLofty Lofty Peak Steady Performer PerformerLofty Lofty Peak always a steady performer over the grass earned his rather heavy im ¬ post through a galloping victory here last week in which he lopped a second and threefifths off the track record for the distance while being timed in 140 Be ¬ hind him were Lovely Shade and Blue Chou Lofty Peak will again be ridden by Earl Phelps PhelpsAs As mentioned in the preceding para ¬ graph Blue Choir was soundly beaten by LoftyPeak in their most recent meeting but improvement can be expected of trainer Buster Lillys charge Formerly considered one of our top grass horses the Englishbred Blue Choir has failed of late to display the form which gained him that recognition Since his recent defeat how ¬ ever he worked six furlongs over the main track in 114 He will be ridden Mjy Bill Cox CoxThe The Marylandbred Aeschylus won the Turf Cup Handicap over the local course in 1955 earning a starting position in the Washington D C International in which he was unplaced Always an unsound pro ¬ position Aeschylus has been campaigned rather sparingly and his recent local score represented his 1957 debut Keith Stuart will handle the son of Orestes m in the Laurel Spring Cap CapAkbar Akbar Khan who turned in his best grass effort last fall when second behind Chevation in Pimlicos Dixie Handicap will have the saddle services of Eldon Nel ¬ son Saturday and should give a good ac ¬ count of himself The best race of the year by the Englishbred was a bangup third behind Dedicate and Third Brother in Bowies John B Campbell Memorial Handicap HandicapThe The appearance j f Lough Ree in Satur ¬ days headliner came as somewhat of a sur ¬ prise trainer Jim Ryans intentions being unknown until a couple of days ago Lough Ree will be ridden by Steve Brooks who will make one of his infrequent Maryland appearances for the engagement engagementMarys Marys Bubble won a pair of sprints in Maryland this spring and was the pace ¬ maker in the Campbell only to falter in the late stages That he can handle the grass is a certainty for it was over such footing that he accounted for the 1956 Olympic Handicap at Atlantic City
