Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-07
Six Fi||ies Test
.Lea||ah in Rich
.Lassie Stakes
Hurtuck to Ride
Heavy Fovorite in
Arlington Sprint
BY the Associated Press

rich Lassie Stakes at suburban
Arlington Park near Chicago to-
day.
Elsewhere around the thor
oughbred racing front, Belmont
Park ended its eight weeks
Spring" meeting with a field
of 10 in the $4,000 Saranac
Handicap for 3-year- olds. Eight
were entered in the 5000 Lakes
and Flowers Handicap at Holly
wood Park. Nine FLIES and
mares contested the $4,000
Molly Pitcher at Monmouth Park
and seven were named for the
$4,000 King Philip at Maria
gansett.
Leallah, with Willie Hartack
aboard. will go against six others
in Arllngton's 6-furlong feature
for 2-year-oldS. If all seven
start, the race will gross sos. 100
with the winner getting $56,0l0.
Leallah has won three straight
and last Saturday captured the
Coollen Stakes at Monmouth
Park while matching the track
record of 1904 for 51a furlongs.
Dazzling Workout
She went three furlongs in a
workout yesterday morning in a
dazzling "a and may go of as
short favorite as lis.
Hartack came through with
four victories yesterday giving
him IL in the past three days
and 81 for the first II days of
the Arlington meeting.
Leallah's biggest challenge is
expected to come from Claiborne
Farms Nantua. Steve Brooks
will ride Nantua who turned in
a brilliant half mile workout of
:463s a few days ago. Nantua,
however, suffered her first defeat
in the recent Pollyana Stakes.
Rounding out the field will be
Donald M. McKellar's Splen-
dored, r. G.. Burns Franks
Flower. R. N. Webster's Prophets
Bell, Revere Knoll Farms Ro-
manita and Dixiana's Aim High.
Leallah is a daughter of Mas
rullah, sire of Nashua. Her dam
is Lea Lark. daughter of Bull
Lea. If breeding wins the Lassie,
Leallah seems to have the race
sewed up. Nasrullah sired the
last two Lassie winners, Delta
and Judy Rullah. Twilight Tear
in 1943 and Bewitch in 1947, both
champions, were daughters of
Bull Lea.
oh Johnny TOpweighted
Traffic congestion at Belmont
promised to be terrific in the
Saranac. a mile and one-six-
tenth run regarded as wide
open. Mrs. Wallace Gilroy'S Oh
Johnny was topweighted under
124 pounds, while the Christi
ana Stables Ricci Tavi will carry
l22; the Happy Hill Farms
Kingmaker 100. C. V. Whitney's
Born Mighty 119, and Laudy
Lawrence's Beau Diable, 1T.
Born Mighty won the Ohio
Derby, Ricci Tavi the Leonard
Richards, Oh Johnny the With
erS, and Kingmaker the Kent
Stakes. Beau Diable finished
fourth behind Needles in the
Belmont Stakes. closing fastest
of all.
Amory L. Haskell, president
of Monmouth Park. owns Blue
Sparkler the favorite for the
Molly Pitcher. Blue Sparkler
won the Regret Handicap and
was assigned top weight of 100
pounds for today's mile and one
sixteenth race.
MyrtIe's Jet Entered
The Maine Chance Farms
Myrtle's Jet was next with III,
while the Darby Dan Farms
Clear Dawn and the Wheatley
Stables High Voltage each drew
116. Myrtle's Jet won the Co.
lumbar. Colonial and Honey
moon, while Clear Dawn is back
in action after several months
illness. Last winter she won the
Black Helen at Hialeah. and a
year ago she was second in the
Molly Pitcher.
The Llangollen Farms Porter
house, who upset mighty Swaps
in the 100000 Californian in
May. was top weighted at Holly
wood Park under 124 pounds.
Porterhouse won the Lakes and
Flowers a year ago. Colonel
Mack, another stakes winner,
had 1872, and Cyclotron, 12l.
At Narragansett Park the early
favorite was Sam Tufano's Wise
Margin, top weighted under 1913
pounds. j. P. Caval's French
bred Amyn Bey. who won the
mile and one-sixteenth event last
year with lis pounds, will carry
ITO this time.
PhiIIies Recall PiIIette