Show Ponder Two Lea Bettors Bettors' favorites In Santa Anita Race Rase By Bob Myers ers I I ARCADIA Cal Jan 27 OP iT UP- UP The third annual Santa Anita maturity for four Caul four- four year-old year thoroughbreds comes off ore Saturday and a businesslike filly named Two Lea might just happen to run her sturdier masculine rivals into defeat Ten or so year olds are slated to race in this mile and one quarter event the first of Santa Anitas Anita's s 's three stakes and actually It is a wide open affair Two Lea is a proud bay daughter of Bull Lea She roces races for the famed Calumet stable and she I could well humble her more esteemed es esteemed esteemed es- es teemed teammate in the maturity I Kentucky derby champion Ponder Dangerous Pick It is dangerous to pick a filly over a field of colts and there are some likely looking creatures running running run run- nin ning in this one in addition to the probable favorite Ponder Theres There's racing for Anita King and Gus Luellwitz Old Rockport Clifford Mooers chestnut winner of the Santa Anita derby last year and victor in two out of three starts here this season the King ranch's Curandero and possibly Prophets Thumb to list the leaders Foxcatcher Farm has a choice filly entered too in Gaffery But dark brown Gaffer Gaffery has thrice collided collided collided col col- with Two Lea here and just justas as many times been beaten in close clos finishes The last time was in the Santa Margarita l handicap Jan 14 when the Calumet princess princes proved she could travel in irl the mud and win in her first handicap en en- Double Favorite One thin thing seems certain Calumets Calumet's Calumets Calumet's Calumets Calumet's Cal Cal- double threat of Pon Ponder cr and T o Two Lea will be he the betting Ponder has yet to hit the winners winner's circle at Santa Anita but all his races have been at distances shorter than the maturity His backers think hell he'll like the stretched out route Ponder with Eddie Arcaro Inthe in inthe inthe the saddle must pack top weight of pounds under a schedule of I weights based on the past money earnings Old Rockport ridden by Gordon Glisson gets Moon- Moon rush Two Lea with Calumets Calumet's contract contract contract con con- tract rider Steve Ste Brooks aboard carries a pound load which shouldn't bother her and Gaffery has one pound less Longshot Ode Odds Old Rockport Is slated to be coupled with his Mo- Mo copo an outsider with promise while Abe Hirschberg's Bolero and the King ranch's Curandero will find some support from the longshot longshot longshot long- long shot admirers Fifty thousand or more fans are expected to witness the race won wona a year ago by Maine Chances Chance's Ace Admiral and the year before by Frank Frankel's Estimated net to the winner is but next year the return will begin to mount into astronomical ical figures That's when the div dividend dividend dividend div div- begins pay paying ng off on the accumulations accumulations accumulations ac ac- ac- ac of fees paid at the time of the original nomination of yearlings and on each ach year as the age marks are arc reached Within two I years years the purse will pass I I according to Santa Anita |