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4 Announce Weights For Valley Forge Iron Liege Gets 126; Find, Sharpsburg 119 in Opening Feature at Garden State CAMDEN, N. J., April 30. — Calumet Farms Iron Liege, winner of the McLennan Handicap, has been assigned top weight of 126 pounds for Saturdays 5,-000 added Valley Forge Handicap at Garden State Park. This opening-day fixture is decided at 1 mile and 70 yards and is open to three-year-olds and up. Calumet was the nations leading money-winner in 1957 with earnings of ,150,910, to which Iron Liege contributed 12,625. The Bull Lea colt won eight races last year, including the Kentucky Derby. His other victories came in the Jersey Stakes here, Laurance Armour Memorial and Sheridan Handicap. Calumets Fabius and Pintor Lea get in the Valley Forge with 116 and 112, respectively. Two Pegged at 119 Sharpsburg, formerly owned by Calumet, but now racing for Roy E. Faircloth. gets in with 119 pounds, as does Alfred G. Van-derbilts Find. Sharpsburg has not been worse than second in a year. Before bowing by a nose to One-Eyed King in the Lincoln Special, Sharpsburg had racked up five straight, including a victory in the Capitcl Handicap. | Find, whose lifetime earning of 84,014 places him ninth among all-time money, winners, is without victory this season, but I was second in the San Pasquale at Santa Anita, and runner-up in the Campbell Memorial at Bowie. | Brookmeade Stables Oligarchy, who scored his first stakes triumph in the rich | Widener, and last Saturday won the Laurel Handicap, gets in with an 118-pound impost, j The Valley Forge weights follow: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Iron Liege 1,26 Bureaucracy 111, Find 119 True Verdict 111 I Sharpsburg 119 Busher Fantasy 110 • Oligarchy 118 Countermand 110 Ben Lomond 117 Fabricator 110 Clem 117 General Arthur 110 Fabius 116 LordJeep 110 One-Eyed King 116 No Fear H. 110 Paper Tiger 116 Rasparll. 110 TickTock 115- Sonny Dan 110 Air Pilot 114 Ambehaving 109 St. Amour H. 114 Gama 109 Go Lightly 113 Mambo Dancer 109 Hoop Band 113 Olympias Ace 109 KingHairan 113 Saim 109 Liberty Sun 113 Pylades 108 Tellarian 113 Air Wonder 107 Arion 112 Cannon Fire 107 Flying Chief 112 V.S.O.P. 107 Gray Phantom 112 Persia 106 Pintor Lea 112 Chance It 105
