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Venomous Never Headed In Colonial Handicap 42,217 See Dario Miss Gain Easy Victory for Sixth in Row By JOE IIIRSCII GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 30. Venomous treated a Memorial Day crowd of 42,217 to a brilliant performance this slightly overcast cool afternoon, leading every step of the way in the sixteenth running of the 8,300 Colonial Handicap for fillies and mares to carry the red and white silks of B. A-.Dario to an easy two and one-half lengths triumph. Mrs. Mabel D. Lewis Happy Princess was a well-beaten runner-up with Phillip Connors Stolen Hour another five lengths farther back. Under 118 pounds, Venomous raced the six furlongs of the Colonial in 1:10 with Walter "Mousey" Blum easing this small daughter of Mel Hash and Spiteful Sue in the last sixteenth of a mile. Venomous, the 4-to-5 choice of the huge holiday throng returned .80 and annexed first money of 9,250, increasing her 1957 earnings to Continued on Pago Fifty-Six i Akbar Akbar Khan Khan Cracks Cracks Track Track Record; Record;: Venomous Venomous Takes Takes Col Colonial oniol Handicap Hondicop Crowd of 42,217 At Garden State Odds-on Dario Miss Never Headed as She Beats Happy Princess for Sixth in Row Continued from Page One 6,575. The winner was receiving four pounds from Calumets topweighted Amoret who finished fifth in the seven-horse field. Venomous, who was considered perhaps the nations fastest filly, was registering her third victory of the year in three starts. She won six out of nine last year, including her final three appearances, giving her an unbeaten string of six straight scores. She is owned and was bred by the managing director of Lincoln Downs race track, near Providence, R. I., who was absent today. Representing Dario was trainer Bill La Rue and Lincoln Downs publicity director Eddie Mack, who with jockey Blum, accepted a trophy from Eugene E. Mori, vice-president of Hialeah and son of Garden States president. Blum Has Word of Praise Blum, who Uirned in his usual excellent ride aboard Venomous, said upon dismounting: "She will break many a fillys heart that tries to run with her. Shes as good a filly as I have ever ridden.? Trainer La Rue added that the winner was staked j both at Delaware Park and Monmouth j Park, but preferred to confer with Dario , first before arriving at a decision. j Frank A. Piarullis. Vertx vaulted into prominence as a possible late development in the ranks of the better threeyear-olds of the season, winning his 1957 debut here today in the most impressive manner. The mahogany chestnut son of The Rhymer and Kanace, by Case Ace, won his first two starts as a juvenile, and completed his brief campaign finishing a respectable fourth in the seven-furlong Worlds Playground Stakes at Atlantic City. Mrs. Herbert Herffs Wayward Bird came off the pace with an eye-opening brio in the fifth race to regteter her third straight success. The two-year-old Roughn Tumble filly shows a great deal of promise and should be particularly effective when they go a distance of ground. Well supported today, Wayward Bird returned .60 and covered the five furlongs in :58, just four ticks off the local standard. Eugene Monacelli had the mount. I The Carolyn K Stables Dance Card set all the pace in this one and was collared only in the last 100 yards by Wayward Bird, who won by half a length. Dance Card was able to save the place by a neck from B. A. Darios Dandy Blitzen, a half-sister to the owners good filly Venomous. Monacelli gave an excellent account of himself, the young bug boy timing his move perfectly and displaying cool courage in racing along the rail.
