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Thirty-Six Black Eyed Susan Nominees With 79 Named for Mr. Fitz Handicap Gray Phantom, Momus, Riccii] Tavi in Latter; La Verite In Sophomore Filly Stakes PIMLICO. Baltimore, Md., May 8. — Thirty - six sophomore fillies have been ncminated for the 0,000 added Black Eyed Susan Stakes to be run a week from Weanesday, May 15. and 19 middle distance handicap stars were made eligible for the 5,000 added Mr. Fitz Handicap on Friday, May 17. according to J. Fred Col-will, racing secretary. Wheatley Stable has listed Gray Phantom for the second running of the mile and three -sixteenths Mr. Fitz, honoring 82 -year-old "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons who will be here to make the presentation as well as to saddle the Kentucky Derby favorite Bold Ruler in the 00,000 added Preakness on May 18. Gray Phantom triumphed in the Robert | E. Lee Handicap and placed to Bardstown in the Tropical Park Handicap among his ! seven starts this year. Another 1957 stakes winner in the Mr. Fitz is Cedar Farms Cedrus who succeeded in the Laurel Hand-I icap. Momus, winner of the inaugural edition S of the Mr. Fitz, was nominated along with [Fieedom Parley and Ocean Lane by the i North Downs Farm stable of Canada. Prominent among the eligibles for the j Mr. Fitz are Christiana Stables Ricci Tavi, j victor in three added money efforts in 1956 j including the Exterminator Handicap here, , and Thinking Cap who scored in the Sty-| mie and Merchants and Citizens Handicaps ] and was runner-up to Wise Margin in the i Pimlico Cup. Thinking Cap won the Pirn- ! i lico Futurity in 1954. Intersectional competition may be of-I fered with the naming of Norman B. 1 Hunts Master Boing, French-bred winner j of the 1956 Washington D. C. International, who campaigned on the West Coast this year. Heading the starlets named for the 36th j running of the Black Eyed Susan, is A. F. j Walls La Verite The Truth who defeated the Kentucky Derby pacesetter and Preak- I ness eligible, Federal Hill, in the Biscayne Bay Handicap at Gulfstream Park. Current stakes winners in the mile and one-sixteenth Black Eyed Susan include Brookfield Farms I Offbeat Prioress, Cain Hoy Stables Jota Jota Ashland, and Hal Headleys Pillow Talk Kentucky Oaks Prep. From last years stakes victresses are Sol Rutchicks Miss Blue Jay Fashion and Polly Drummond, Reginald N. Websters Capelet Frizette, C. V. Whitneys Magic Forest Gardenia, and Whitneys Snow White National Stallion, filly division. Calumet Farm, which may send out the favored entry of Kentucky Derby winner Iron Liege and Gen. Duke in the Preakness, has nominated Rosewood, a daughter of Coaltown, in a bid for a successive triumph in the Black Eyed Susan won by Princess Turia last spring.
