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Bally Ache Probable Comely Choice Faces Nine Rivals In Juvenile Event Strongest Contention Likely To Come From Ira Eaker and Conestoga at Jamaica Today t By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent JAMAICA, L. I. N. Y. May 5.— Bally Ache, a bay son of Bally dam and Celestial Blue, who races under the Leonard D. Fruchtman silks, heads a field of 10 better class juveniles scheduled to meet here Wednesday afternoon in the 7,900 Comely Stakes, initial two-year-old stakes of the current New York season. The Fruchtman colt will be ridden by jockey Dave Erb in the 5 furlongs feature. Bally Ache defeated a pair of his Comely rivals in the Island Park Purse here April 22 Everett and Jean Jacobs Midas farm colt, Ira Eaker, and C. Mahlon Klines Conestoga. The victor shouldered 122 pounds and stepped through the sloppy footing in :57%, shattering a 17-year-old 5 furlongs track record. Bally Aches margin over Ira Eaker, early pacemaker, was but three-quarters of a length with Conestoga earning the show award three and one-half lengths back of the lapped leaders. While Ira Eaker and Conestoga are expected to give Bally Ache a stiff battle in the Comely, several others in the field have shown good speed during their initial campaigns. Others Rated Highly | Among those rated highly are Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps Wheatley Stable colt, Progressing, Leonard P. Sassos Penowa Rullah, and Charles G. Raibles Pebble-brook Farm youngster, Tufanhai. Robert W. Duncans Free Service, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Vineyard, Louis E. Wolfsons Harbor View Stable colt, Coach Wally, and Richard Browns Niequest completes the I probable starting band for this edition of the Comely. Each Comely starter must shoulder scale weight of 122 pounds and if the 10 named overnight fill their engagements the winner "Will earn a net purse of 1,460.00. Jockey Eric Guerin will handle Vineyard, Sam Boulmetis rides Tufanhai, Mike Sor-rentino is named on Conestoga, Bobby Sto-vall will be aboard Free Service, and Johnny Ruane is engaged for Progressing, regarded by many seasoned observers as one ] 1 of the years top young prospects. Hedley Woodhouse, who has been showing good ! ! saddle form, will be at the reins on Niequest, Paul Bailey is to guide Coach Wally, Charlie Burr will pilot the speedy Ira Eaker. whose blistering early pace in the ! Island Park aided Bally Ache in establish- | | ing a new mark, and Eddie Arcaro is to I handle Penowa Rullah. Bally Aches Island Park Purse account-bag and his victory in a division of the Hialeah Juvenile, may earn him Comely stakes favoritism but he will have to give | a top performance to trim Progressing, a i j homebred son of Bimelech and Stepping Stone. The Wheatley Stable colt won his first start in :59, carrying 118 pounds along to a three lengths graduation decision. The action displayed by Progressing was near-perfect despite the fact that he was making his debut. Penowa Rullah, the get of Nasrullah and I the Count Fleet mare Our Fleet, also made food the first time he went to the post. The Sasso colt coasted to a two and three-quarters lengths accounting in :584/5, time he might have bettered had he been placed to sterner pressure. Tufanhai, a son of Royal Charger and Princess Lea, is a double winner at Jamaica and has trained impressively for his initial stakes outing. The Pebblebrook Farm colt defeated Conestoga and Brickwork April 20 and, prior to that outing, won his first purse at the direct exepnse of Blonde Ruler and Rolling Clouds, completing that trip over a sloppy strip in :58%.
