Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-21
Blue Man Starring
Comeback in Sprint
Al HiaIeah Today
sy the Asseeia.sd Press

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 21.-White
Oak Stables Blue Man. winner
of the Preakness in 1852. begins
his comeback campaign today in
o division of the $4,000 Osceola
purse at Hialeah Park.
The 6-furlong dash for 4-year-
olds and upward attracted %
starters, necesSitating splitting
the race. Fourteen speedsters
are scheduled to compete with
Blue Man.
The 5-year-old son of Blue
Swords won a division Of the
rich Flamingo Stakes in 1852
then took Experimental Handi-
cap No. 2 and was third behind
Hill Gail and Sub Fleet in the
Kentucky Derby.
Besides the Preakness. he won
the Yankee and Dwyer Stakes
the latter by five lengths July S
It was his last race as a sopho-
more and put him in the money
in eight of nine races that year
when he won $259.585. AS q
2-year-old he earned $17.450.
Turns in Speedy Workout.
Trainer Woody Stephens has
brought Blue Man along steadily
in training and only yesterday
the bay horse worked 3 furlongs
in a speedy 1925 handily. Last
Sunday he went 6 furlongs in
1:l3Hs. but may n. ID more dis
lance for his best performance
Blue Man has been nominated
for the $4,000 added McClennan
Handicap at a mile and a fur
long February 6 and the $780,
00e Widener at a mile and q
quarter February 20. In the
Widener he is assigned 121
pounds. the same package as on
Greentree Stables Straight Face
and five less than the top
weighted Royal Vale.
Matching strides with Blue
Man in the Osceola will be such
speedsters as Woolford Farm S
Sugarfoot, K. G. Marshall's
Judge j. B., D. j. Gleeson's
Chombro. Gustave S. Smiths
Handsome Teddy. c. A. ONeil,
jr.'s Air Pine. M. ]. Kaplan's
Ceremonious and B. L. Williams
Pass Play.
Also, Mrs. E. E. D. Skaters
Fiddle. S. P. Stecker's Home
Fleet, Mrs. o. S. Deming's War
less. Elmendorf Farms AIS
Fair. Marlboro Stud Farms Jet
Master. Castle Rock Farms Grey
Hour and Mrs. Charles Silvers'
Little Herman.
Chombro is top-weighted at
124 pounds while Blue Man will
carry 121. Sugarfoot, Handsome
Teddy and Grey Hour carry 116
pounds each. with the weights
scaling down to 102 on Fiddle.
Soto VOce Wins.
In yesterdays feature. the
$4,000 Jasmine Stakes Soto
voce whipped a classy band of
10 other 3-year-old fillieS. in
Guiding the favored Queen
Hopeful.
. Soto. Voce, owned by Mrs.
Louis Lazare of New York, car
ried 1l3 pounds. including Jock
ey Ken Church. and sprinted the
six furlongs in 1:113s over a fast
track
Queen Hopeful, owned by
Hasty House Farms, was 8 to 2
in the betting and finished a
strong second. three fourths of
a length behind Soto Voce. Ed
die Holton's Trisong was third,
another two lengths back and
Maine Chance Farms Fascinator
was fourth.
Soto Voce, 10 to / in the
morning line, dropped to 3 to l
at post time and paid $8.70, $4.70
and 1910. Queen Hopeful re-
turned $3.50 and $3.50. while
Trisong paid $3.50 to show.
Soto Voce, winner of her last
race at Tropical Park by five
lengths a month ago, was never
far off the pace set by Fascinator
after the winner recovered from
q bad start. She earned $4,000.
Today's crowd of 1858 was
well below the 17.453 of a year
ago and betting on the nine-race
program totaled $1.247,910 COM
pared with $1.307.664 on the
corresponding day last season.