Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-24
Turn-To Now Rated
7-to.5 Favorite in
FIamingo Field Of II
BY the Associated Press

MIAMI. Feb. 24.-Eleven top
3-year-olds appeared today as
likely starters in Saturdays
500, 900 added Flamingo !. at
Hialeah Park. with Turn-To the
heavy favorite.
The Cain Hoy Stable star.
winner of the worlds richest
race at. Garden State last fall
and never worse than third in
his seven appearances to date,
loped an easy mile in las
yesterday to keep his legs in
shape for the rich mile and a
furlong classic.
Turn-To has run twice since
winning the Garden States
Stakes October 81. He toyed
with six others in an allowance
race February 2 and won easily
by 3l2 length, carrying 1872
pounds-the Flamingo weight.
Two weeks later he appeared
In an exhibition race with three
othe Flamingo hopefuls. beating
his stablemate, Giant Cracker,
also by 3l2 lengths in a breeze
under 124 pounds.
Turn-To, who already has
earned $183, 632 for owner Harry
F. Guggenheim of New York,
probably will be Z to in the
Flan1ingo. according to odds
makers. Giant Cracker may go
with him.
Adams Stays on Hasty Road.
Second choice may go to HaSty
House Farms Hasty Road de-
spite his second defeat of the
winter Monday. Trainer Harry
TrotSek said Hasty Road will
start unless something happens
In the meantime" and Squelched
rumors of a possible Jockey
change by saying that Johnny
Adams will ride.
Trotsek said it has not yet
been decided if Sea o Erin will
60 as an entry with Hasty Road.
w. Haggin Perry's Remand
became a probable starter after
scoring convincingly in a mile
and a furlong route yesterday
in a speedy 1:50.
There is a strong possibility
that Remand will be ready and
run in the Flamingo." Trainer
Jack Skirvin said after the race
that saw Michael C. changers
Comeaway, a Flamingo hopeful,
falter badly after setting the
early pace.
Three Eligibles Fade.
Wheatley Stables Full Flight.
second to Remand, also appeared
a Flamingo probable, but three
other eligibles faded from the
picture after trailing Sam Brook.
a Florida bred, home in a mile
and sixteenth race on the turf.
They are A. j. Leeds Sur
mount, Mrs. E. H. Augustus
Helianthus and F. Godfrey's
O'Alison. Sam Brook. owned by
Howard Larkin of Miami, beat
Surmount by a head. with DALI
son a nose away in third He'll
anthus was seventh in the eight
horse field.
Mrs. Elizabeth Graham's Black
Metal earned a photo verdict
over HaSty Road in race Men
day and is regarded as a prob
BILE starter, along with Wood
vale Farms Goyamo, winner of
the Bahamas, and Greentree
Stables Maharajah, victor in the
Everglades.
Goyamo worked a mile yester-
day in 1:41 and finished the
mile and a furlong in 1854. Ma
harajah worked a mile Monday
in a fast 1888.
Juvenile Stakes Split.
Meanwhile. today's running of
the $4,000 Hialeah Juvenile
Stakes over the three-furlong
nursery course will be split in
two divisions. with Is going in
each. If all 80 start, the gross
will be $22,837 with winners get
ting $17.262 each.
The first division, to be run
as the sixth race, probably will
see L. S. Green's Merriwolf and
Christopher Ranch's Silver Bar
as co-favorites. Others in this
division include Cash Sale, Lovely
Wac, Errasina, Royal Pate,
Snooty. Dotora, Lady Atom, Mis-
ter Carter and Extra Man.
In the second division. Sum-
shine Stables Party Gossip and
Dickey Stables Menolene likely
will share favoritiSm. Others
to go in this section include Blue
Eternal, Muraibrook, Busy Phil,
Spanish Charge. Ray Baby and