Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-24
Round Table
Choice in
Coast Race
Iy the Assoelated Press


Round Table is expected to
rule the favorite at about / TO
20 today in the 500. 000- added
Californian at Hollywood Park.
The Kerr Stables 4-year-old
son of Princequillo has only
four rivals in the mile and q
sixteenth Californian. If I'VE
start, the net to the winner
would be SIS, 800, boosting
Round Tables total earnings
to $l,069.064 If he romps home
first.
Lincoln Road. who finished
second to Tim Tam In the
Kentucky and Florida Derbies,
and then the Preakness, tops q
field Of IL in the $4,000 added
Jersey Stakes at Garden State
Park. The colt is owned by
the Sunny Blue Farm and has
yet to win a race this season.
although he's earned $7o,870
for Owner Issac Blumberg.
ii Entered In Acorn
The $4,000 dded Acorn
Stakes for 3-year-old fillies is
on tap at Belmont Park, with
IL entered. Three-year-oldS
battle it out at Boston in the
$25, 000-added Suffolk Downs
Stakes with Is named. Six
teen grass course stars we're
entered for the $20,000-added
Continental Turf Handicap at
Washington Park.
Willie Shoemaker rides Round
Table, who packs $50 pounds
as he attempts to make the
Californian the goth victory in
his last 81 starts. The colt
already has won three $1,000
races this year. the Santa
Anita Handicap, the Maturity
and the Gulfstream Handicap.
Last year Round Table won five
of the big ones, and disregard
ing various $4,000 and $50
900 events at Hollywood Park,
there are a couple more hun
dred granders to get rich on
out West this summer. The
Hollywood Gold Cup comes
July IL, and the Sunset Handi-
cap July %
Citation, racing's first mil
lionaire. retired with $685.
760, and Round Table soon may
be threatening Nashua. who
retired as the No. / money
winner with $1,288,565.
Closest to Round Table in
the weights is Terrang, with
lis pounds. Pit Boss, Seaneen
and The Searcher each have
107.
Lincoln Road Carries Ill
Lincoln Road has q break
in the weights as under allow
ance conditions he carries only
Ill pounds in the mile-and-
an-eighth Jersey. Three rivals
have 118 apiece - Lii Fella,
Talent Show and Deack Dun
can.
Idun, unbeaten 1857 cham
pion 2-year-old filly who won
her only start this season,
skipped the Acorn because Of
illness. The mile race, a step
ping stone to the 100000
Coaching Club American Oaks
June 81 at Belmont, has several
standouts. They include the
Foxcatcher Farms Lopar, l. J.
Collins Dixie Miss, Ned w
Brent'S Polamby, and the Short
Brook Farms Craftiness.
Jets Reward and Countess
Marcy were scratched this
morning.
Chicago has a star-Sprin-
killed. field in the Continental, a
6-furlong affair topped by the
Agoura Stock Farms Ekaba.
Ekaba, who won the $4,000
Golden Gate Handicap two
weeks ago, will carry high
weight Of 124. Next with 40 is
John zitnik's Manassas, who
captured the Arlington Handi-
cap last year. Hasty House
Farms Mahan, '118, won the
Washington, d. c.. Information
al at Laurel in November.
Backbone, who won the
Chesapeake at Laurel and the
Hartford Handicap last Satur-
day at Lincoln Downs, is the
probable favorite in the Suffolk
Downs Stakes. The colt is
owned by Boncrist Farms, and
carries 121 pounds along with
Charlie Boy and Admirals Joy