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Big Effort Tops Bed o Roses Field Ten in Jamaicas Distaff Handicap Brookfield Topweight Under 122; Hope Is Eternal, Mile. Dianne, A Glitter to Start By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent JAMAICA, L. L. N. Y., May 1.— Big Effort, a four-year-old homebred daughter of Endeavour II. and Sun Mixa, who races under the Mrs. Dodge Sloane-owned Brookmeade Stable sliks, heads a field of 10 fillies and mares scheduled to meet here Saturday in the third running of the 8,550 Bed o Roses Handicap. The Brookmeade Stable miss, who will be handled in the 1 1-16 miles week-end stakes by jockey Eldon Nelson, is to tote 122 pounds. - Big Effort, suuccessful in three of her nine engagements last year and good winner of the Next Move Handicap here April 17, is the probable post time choice for this edition of the Bed o Roses. She was one of the best of her sex and age division during the 1958 season, beating good fields in the Acorn Stakes and Delaware Oaks. Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs three-year-old filly, Hope Is Eternal, 119 pounds, is the highweight on the scale, spotting Big Effort one pound. She finished second, two lengths back of Miss Royal in the 6 furlongs Prioress Stakes on April 22 and, prior to that, trimmed Ingenuity, Cobul, and four other quick rivals in the 6-furlong Meadow Lawn Purse, stepping along in 1:11% under 115 pounds. A Glitter Carries 120 Included in the band named for the Saturday headliner are such performers as Mrs. Gene Markeys Calumet Farm homebred, A Glitter, 120 pounds; Harold H. Polks Mile. Dianne, 117; Roy R. Hunts Hoosier Honey, 116; Alvin Handmachers Meticulous, 114; Max Glucks Elmendorf mare, Oil Rich, 112; Edward M. OBriens Spar Maid, 111; Arthur H. Hershkowitz and Nat Hikens Dana Mia Stable filly, War Empress, 107, and Robert Kleberg Jr.s King Ranch representative, Chistosa, 105. With 10 starters, the 1959 Bed o Roses renewal will net the winning owner 8,257.50. Jockey Paul Bailey is engaged for Spar Maid, Charles Burr will guide A Glitter, Bobby Ussery is named on Mile. Dianne, Irish Johnny Ruane rides Hoosier Honey, Ismael Valenzuela will pilot Oil Rich, and Hedley Woodhouse is on War Empress. Chistosa and Hope Is Eternal were open mounts late today but Conn McCreary, who won the 1957 Bed o Roses inaugural with Little Pache, will try for his second victory in the filly and mare fixture aboard Meticulous. * A Glitter, the get of Khaled and A Gleam, had a sparkling record as a three-year-old but her best pe/formance thus far this season was a third to her stable companion, Rosewood, in Hialeahs Black Helen. Last year the Calumet Farm filly annexed the Coaching Club American Oaks, Betsy Ross Stakes, and Monmouth Oaks, ran second in the Beldame back of Outer Space and was third to Bornastar in the Vineland, earning 44,645. She displayed early speed in the recently-decided Continued on Page Forty-Two « Big Effort Tops Field For Bed o Roses Cap Top-Weighted Over Nine Distaff Challengers in Jamaica Feature Continued from Page Six 6 furlongs Farmerette Handicap but failed to stay. Mile. Dianne captured the Farmerette at the direct expense of Meticulous, who closed gamely but was unable to overtake the Polk homebred mare, a length separating the leaders at the wire. War Empress also started in the Farmerette but did no better than fifth in the field of seven. Oil Rich, a homebred four -year -old filly, progeny of Phalanx and Oil Princess, won the Rancocas Stakes as a two-year-old, scored in an overnight race in 1957 but was out of action last season. She has been under silks on five occasions during 1959 and her top performance was a well-deserved victory in Gulfstream Parks 1 1-16 miles Suwannee River Handicap. Hoosier Honey, a five-year-old daughter of High Bandit and Kentmere Miss, worked impressively for her New York seasonal debut. She ran third to Tinkalero in the Barbara Frietchie Handicap before departing from Maryland and is remembered here for her triumphs in the 1958 renewals of the Firenze Handicap and Gallorette Stakes.
