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Little Little Pache Pache Tops Tops Champlain Champlain Field; Field; Rancocas Rancocas Tests Tests 10 10 at at Garden Garden State State Meets Levee, Ten Others at Jamaica Shift in Weights to Make Infatuation and Myrtles Jet Dangerous Opponents Today By BUD LYON JAMAICA, L. I.. N. Y., May 14.— Tomorrows mid - week feature at this Baisley Boulevard course will be the six-furlong Champlain Handicap, a filly and mare test which carries a gross purse of 3,800. out of which the winner will garner 6.80,0, if all 12 named overnight go postward. Ellis Farms Little Pache, unbeaten at this meeting, tops the Champlain field with highweight of 126 pounds and is asked to give considerable concessions, five to 20 pounds, to the others. In fact, arrayed behind the Apache filly are the next eight eligibles in order of weights as assigned by racing secretary Jimmy Kilroe last week. Mrs. Vernon G. Cardys Levee. 121; Brook-field Farms Infatuation. 118: Mabel D. Lewis Happy Princess. 116; Velvet Acres First Asking, 115: Maine Chance Farms Myrtles Jet. 115; Ogden Phipps Glamour, 112; Nelson I. Asiels Tarquilla, 112; Maine Chance Farms Royal Lark. Ill; Ralph Lowes eJt Girl, 109; Sanford Stud Farms Louise Bell, and Christopher T. Chenerys Scansion, the low weights, at 106 pounds. Heaviest Impost of Career Little Pache. winner of three in a row since arriving on Long Island from Florida in early April, faces her sternest" task tomorrow for with her 126-pound impost she is being asked to lift the heaviest package of her career, and five pounds greater than what she packed in accounting for the Bed O Roses Handicap some 10 days back. It was last fall at Pimlico that the four-year-old daughter of Apache — Little Spooky made her successful debut into the ranks of stakes winners when she upset the form players with a driving victory in the Gal-lorette Handicap at a mile and one-eighth. The victory was a smashing effort for the filly for she turned back such proven distance handicap stars as Blue Sparkler and Searching, two of the top members of last years filly and mare division. The Ellis Farm miss failed to impress during her winter campaign in Florida but connected immediately upon arriving here this spring first in an overnight handicap at five and one-half furlongs, where she won easily by five lengths over Glamour and under 118 pounds. Next asking found the miss in the Correction Handicap, under 116 pounds, and again winning easily by five and one-half lengths at the expense Continued on Page Forty-FWn : t . , , . J • a . . a r j ~ j j - j j a j - a a Little Pache to Concede Champlain Rivals Weight , Poundage Shift Makes Infatuation . Dangerous in Sprint at Jamaica Continued from Page Fifty-Two of Infatuation and getting the six-furlong , distance in 1:11%, Little Pache was then asked to take on , more sterner opposition and at a more ex-j acting distance, the Bed ORoses Handicap » at a mile and one-sixteenth, a fact that hampered her little, for with highweight of 121 pounds she proved an easy winner by four lengths with her time being 1:47. Finishing back of her that afternoon were ; some of the best of the "fair sex, for in the runner-up position was Gay Life, followed by Manotick, Pardala, Planchette, - Korestes and Myrtles Jet. As a sharpener for tomorrows ongage-ment • trainer Frank Cundall had Little ! "Pache out on her home oval at Jamaica i this morning with the filly just breezing while getting three furlongs in :35, a move - that veteran docker Eddie Hodgson termed, "one of the most impressive short t moves of the year over this strip." The Canadian-owned Levee will be making • her seasonal bow in this area in the | Champlain and while she has been rated ■ as second best according to weights she - nevertheless has never been known to be - at her best when performing at less than J one mile, a matter which may find her just » a trifle shy at the end. Last year- the four-year-old ■ daughter of Hill Prince -Bourtai 1 accounted for purse winnings of 55,800, - while annexing such important fixtures as 5 the Coaching Club American Oaks, the 1 Monmouth Oaks and the Beldame Handicap, " a feat which earned her the runner-up spot in the voting for the top three-year- old filly of the nation. Brookfield Farms Infatuation figures strongly tomorrow for following her defeat fc by Little Pache in the Correction Handi- cap the shift in weights now goes all in her L" favor for instead of conceding four pounds to the Jake Boris and Max Litwin color -besvrer " she will be in receipt of eight t pounds, a tremendous concession consider-ing that she was beaten but five and one-half lengths that afternoon.
