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► , St. Vincent Arrives For Dixie Handicap Vance Longden Beds Down . Famed Turf Star at Pimlico For Rich Event on Saturday BALTIMORE, Md., May 6. — Alberta Ranches, Ltd.s Stv Vincent, c hampion grass horse in America in 1955, arrived here early today following a transcontinental flight from San Francisco to Newark via Trans World Air Lines for his engagement in Saturdays nationally televised 5 .000 -added Dixie Handicap. Trainer Vance Longden accompanied St. Vincent and supervised the famed turf runners bedding down at Barn J. Also included in the flight east was Royal Stag. Holder of two world records on the turf, St. Vincent was vanned from Newark to Pimlico where he will be ridden by Johnny Longden in the Dixie, the mile-and-three-eighths grass stakes in which the English-bred established the- second of two world speed marks two years ago. The elder Longden, who recently topped the 5,000 figure to become the worlds leading jockey in number of winners, is scheduled to arrive here Tuesday. Beat Master Boing This season, St. Vincent annexed the Washingtons Birthday Handicap at Santa Anita in the third start of his comeback campaign, defeating, among others, Master Boing, French winner of the 1956 Washington, D. C. International, who also has been named for the Dixie. St. Vincent raced in the William P. Kyne Memorial Handicap on April 27, finishing seventh, beaten four lengths in the mile-and-an-eighth event. Imported from England early in 1954, St. Vincent won once in 13 starts in this country as a three-year-old. However, during the winter of 1954-55, he developed into a stellar grass performer, winning the San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano and Washingtons Birthday Handicap. In the latter, he set his first world mark, running the mile-and-a-half in 2:25%. His next triumph was in the Dixie when he carried 126 pounds to a record 2:15% for the mile-and-three-eighths. This was the first time in 54 runnings that the Dixie had been contested over the grass course. St. Vincents racing career was temporarily halted after the 1955 Suburban Handicap in which he came back lame.
