Ten Juvenile Fillies Go in Miss America: Alsabs Day, Jetrose and Seely Entered in Initial Running of Lincoln Stake, Daily Racing Form, 1948-06-12

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Ten Juvenile Fillies Go in Miss America AmericaAlsabs Alsabs Day Jetrose and Seely Entered in Initial Running of Lincoln Stake StakeWASHINGTON WASHINGTON PARK Homewood 111 June 11 Mrs Albert Sabath who gained considerable fame some years ago when Alsab was crushing virtually everything that faced him is now depending on little Alsabs to carry her banner the great horse now heading her Kentucky breeding farm When the Lincoln Fields Racing Association offers its semifinal Saturday program here tomorrow both Mrs Sabath and the stallion Alsab will be smartly rep ¬ resented by Alsabs Day in the initial run ¬ ning of the Miss America Stakes only major event of the entire meeting fashioned exclusively for juvenile fillies This abbre ¬ viated dash of five furlongs has attracted a bumper field of 10 lassies and although the general impression is that it is a wide open race Alsabs daughter is expected to rule a slight favorite The Miss America is endowed with a purse of 10000 and is slated as a permanent fixture during future Lincoln Fields meetings meetingsAdmired Admired Making Debut DebutThose Those listed to compete against Alsabs Day are Augustus Nahms Trippen a maiden Biown Hotel Stables Jetrose Mrs John Marschs No Strings Murlogg Farms Admired a wellregarded first time starter F R W Stolps Too Sunny another maiden H Bensingers Miss Sal K Aftori Villa Farms Bird Shot F L Flanders Blue Note and Torrence C Melroses Seely All carry 119 pounds except the three maidens in the field In addition to the Miss America the pro ¬ gram is well balanced by a dash that brings together Loujac Hash Night Miss Mommy and others in the fourth the crack three yearold filly Blue Helen will make her first appearance of the season against a corking field of sprinters that includes Speedy Lee Papa Redbird Beau Nash King Bay the sensationally consistent Hypostle and Woodford Sir The seventh is equally as attractive with a field that finds Shaws Pride Trixie Mel Van Orman Continued on Page Two Ten Juvenile Fillies Go in Miss America AmericaAlsabs Alsabs Day Jetrose and Seely Entered in Initial Running of Lincoln Stake StakeContinued Continued from Page One OneSandslinger Sandslinger Faithful More Be Like Polly Hard Held and Yesnow competing competingAlsabs Alsabs Day a bay filly out of the brood ¬ mare Seventh Day will be strongly sup ¬ ported in spite of the fact she has never won a stakes event In two of her four starts however she has emerged victorious and her training over the local strip has impressed both her conditioner H C Red Dodson and the dockers Her most recent outing came at Churchill Downs where she unleashed a stretch charge char arteristic of her sire to defeat a fashion ¬ able field that included Seely one of her main opponents in the Miss America Pre ¬ viously she closed a tremendous amount of ground in the Debutante Stakes at the same track but was forced to bow to Acoma Blue Note and Jetrose JetroseJetrose Jetrose ThreeTime Winner WinnerPressing Pressing Alsabs Day for public support will be Jetrose a precocious filly who has won three of her five starts At the Fair Grounds New Orleans track she dis ¬ played fine promise by finishing second to Pennymaker in the Debutante Stakes StakesSeely Seely after a series of extremely fast trials failed by the narrowest possible margin in her debut over this course losing to Martin Whelan by a nose She was handicapped by the outside post position and the short run to the first turn made her task most exacting She lost consid ¬ erable ground but responded gallantly through the stretch and probably would have scored in another stride or two


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