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1 * New Jersey * By PETER COLE Bal Harbour First on Jersey Wheel j Vandegrift Racing Stable This Year Has 18Head at HisMountHollyFarm FREEHOLD, N. J., May 11.— P and W-Stables Lucky George, bred and trained : by E. W. King cf Marlton. nosed out Her-I ford Stables Princeton j and R. T. Curleys; Supper Money to win the six furlongs three -year-old Lancaster Purse on Monday at Garden State Park. Lucky George, by Gal-lois out of Rosepomp. by Jamestown, maintained a commanding lead and finished a I length and one-half ahead of his nearest rival for the ,000 winners share of thej 0,000 puise. Lucky George was placed in! stakes as a two-year-old in the New Jersey j Breeders Stakes and in the Home Bred r Handicap. Last year he won the DeSotoj Handicap, and won 6,655 in four out of six starts. First Jersey -bred to win on the 1957 Jer-Mf circuit was the five-year-old Bal Har- ; bour. owned by Rappahannock Farm, who took a mile and one-sixteenth event on! opening day at Garden State Park. The winner is a son of Faultless — Notas Socia- i I ales, by Blue Larkspur, bred by Dr. F. A. OKeere and trained by T. J. Tault. Ace Sailor Casemate — Full Sail, by War Admiral . owned by Alfred Roberts and trained by H. W. "Rube" Williams took a second to Bwamazon Farms Jovial Jove on the same day. after leading the field into the stretch where he was worn down by the winner. A chestnut colt by Scobeyville named Savant out of Savior Sally, by Emileo . led a field of a dozen two-year-olds in a five furlongs dash on Monday, May 6. chalking up a victory for his owner-breeder Mrs. George S. Howell and his trainer. Gecrge Howell who owns Tourelay Farm in Tinton Palls. The colts sire. Scobeyville Rounders — Umbril, by Granville stands at W. H. Foales Silverbrook Farm in Shrewsbury. AAA There are nearly a hundred Jersey-breds now quartered at the Camden oval, and the first homebred race, a six furlongs allow- | ! ance race for three-year-olds and upward i WM staged on Friday. The two-year-olds ! wfll have their turn on May 15, when a i maiden two-year-old race will be offered. j | 1 This year marks the first racing season for William B. Vandegrift of Vande Farms. Mount Holly, who has three juveniles prep- : ping for the circuit. One of them, trained by James F. Murphy, also of Mount Holly, is Big Squeeze, a full brother to. Rarco Saul TTight Squeeze — Cauliflower, by Neddie , who won a six furlongs race at Garden State opening day for Rarco Stable and trainer J. W. Camac, with Sammy Boul-metis in the irons. Vandegrifts gray filly Athenal Greek Warrior — East B. , bred by j Helis Stock Farm, is showing promise as she goes through bar final stages of training as does Jet Minx, a daughter of Jet Flight cut of Moon Bird. I Helis Stock Farm reported the demise last week of the good sire Greek Warrior. Vandegrift entered the breeding industry less than two years ago. now has 18 head of thoroughbred stock on his 136-acre farm. This spring his crop includes a filly by Bolero out of the Polynesian mare Aloha Lass, and two fillies by Lotowhite Devil Diver out of High Number Jack High and Snippy Peg Pericles. He also has a chestnut colt by Lotowhite out of the Flying Scot mare Compassion, who was bred to Royal Mustang last year. Miss Pebble has been bred to Mount Marcy and Ankle High Attention went to Nizami II. Aloha Lass is currently at Meadowview Farm where she is booked to Slide Rule. AAA A near neighbor to Vandergrift on the Mount Holly-Jacksonville Road is breeder-trainer James F. Murphy, a former Rhode Islander, who has been training thoroughbreds for 18 years. Murphy owns and stands the young stallion War God War Admiral — Greek Blond, by Heliopolis*. This spring, Murphy has a chestnut colt by War God out of Colonelette Ky. Colonel — Surprise, by Supremus* and a chestnut filly by Fort Salonga out of Miss Mag Blen-ban — Empress Gino, by Gino . Both mares hav been bred back to War God who had attracted local breeders by his good looks. Grover Ayrers of Pemberton booked his mares Night Angel Rounders I and Lady DAmour to War God this spring. Three MuDphy-owned mares were also bred to hUh: Crepe de Chine Good Goods , Devon r i I | ! i ! i j | 1 c Cream -» Milkman I and Fleet Queen Boat- swain i . » . , i * A A , In Barn X. Stall 44 at Garden State, ; James Pizolongo is staging a comeback to the racing world with his homebred three- , year-old Hialeahs Joy Hialeah — Kitche ; Manitou1. A trainer for 12 years prior to I his retirement from racing to establish a , breeding farm in Hammonton in 1952. Pi- , zolongo, one-time partner of Robert A. Cook of Scobeyville, sold all his breeding 1 "stock with the exception of the three-year- old colt. The change was the result of an unfortunate accident last July when Pizo-, longo was kicked in the face by a young foal and suffered a severe injury to one eye. During his long recovery period he was ] obliged to suspend activities and now plans I to open a public stable in the fall. Other [ l three-year-old homebreds raised at the ; ] Hammonton farm are the colts Comaids , I Pride Hialeah — Comaid, by Cohort* and ! Joanies First Chaldon Heath — Joanie . Prior to the disposal of the breeding stock, the stallions Hialeah Ariel — Marciana, by Waygcod* and Giorgetti Polynesian — I Driven Snow, by Ariel* both stood at the: farm. Pizolongo began his racing career in Rockingham Park Early in the 40s and campaigned regularly throughout the eastern tracks. Rrdge Stable in Mount Holly sent the mares Carolyn R. Star Pilot and Cou-ronne Half Crown I to The Rhymer this spring. Both are expected home from -Maryland soon. Owner Joseph Kaplowitz of Park Ridge has a good-looking filly by Er-rard out of Frissonanate. now three months old. The five-eighths mile track at Ridge Stable was used extensively during the spring by the Ridge Stable string which is handled by trainer Charles P. Coco, now at Garden State. Dhu Varren Farms Cousin Con I Wait A Bit — Lovely Lil sped to a three and one-half lengths win over a field of eight in the mile and one-sixteenth Geisha Purse at Pimlico on Wednesday. With two wins out of three starts, a great beginning for the season. Cousin Con is pointed for the 0,000-added Black Eyed Susan on May 15 , at Maryland.
