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Stake Candidates Drill at Camden Mares Beau, Mrs. Hellen in Colonial Former Goes Half Mile in - :48 in Slop; Bally Ache, Cape Canaveral Breeze By BOB McCURLEY Staff Correspondent GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 14. A pair of leading eligibles for Saturdays renewal of the six-furlong 5,-000 added Colonial Handicap were sent through final preps this -morning for their engagement in the filly and mare feature. Fred P. Meaghers Mares Beau went a handy 4 furlongs in :48 over the sloppy track while Mclver Pricketts Mrs. Helen breezed 3 panels in :39. Mrs. Helen, heroine of the Paul Revere Handicap at Suffolk earlier this season, has been assigned 117 pounds in the Colonial, while Mares Beau, who captured Laurels Capitol Handicap for her lone stake success of 1959, gets in with 115 pounds Saturday. First Test on Track L. P. Fruchtmans Bally Ache, a two-year-old son of Ballydam Celestial Blue and one of the leading eligibles for the 5,000 a d d e d Cherry Hill Stakes in Wednesday, May 20, breezed 3 furlongs in :38. It was his first visit to the track since arriving here from Jamaica where he was successful in the Comely. He also, has a victory in a division of Hialeahs Juvenile Stakes to his credit this year plus the Jamaica track record of :57 for 5 furlongs. Joseph W. LaCroix Cape Canaveral, another Cherry Hill eligible, breezed 3 furlongs in :38. The Christiana Stables Staysail who is expected to try Brunetti Z Pi-arullis Vertex in the 0,000 added Camden Handicap, May 23, was breezed 6 furlongs j in 1 :17, best time of the morning for the distance. w John S. Kellys Deack Duncan, who ran my Ada L Rices Talent Show to a desper- j ate head decision before capitulating in the , Valley Forge Handicap here opening, day, displayed good speed in a three-furlong j spin, getting the distance in :35, handily. Deack Duncan has no further stakes en- gagements here. The same is true of Mrs. Milton Erlang- ; ers Moya. The two-year-old Alsab filly j I went a handy 3 furlongs in :36. A winner . I of her local debut, her connections elected I to pass up last Wednesdays Rancocas Stakes.
