Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-02-03 | Page 12 | Two Vanderbilt Fillies Favored in Maturity

I Two V a j r By Rob oh Myers ARCADIA Cal Feb 3 UP- UP Eleven Elc thoroughbreds headed b by bythe bythe the favored Alfred G. G Vanderbilt filly all-filly team of Next Move Mo and Bed Bcd O 0 Roses awaited the start at Santa Anita Saturday of the most extravagant horse race ever evet staged The event was the fourth running running run run- ning of the Santa Anita Maturity with a record breaking snowballing snowball snowball- ing gross purse amounting to The winner was as due to receive e the highest net prize ever awarded either or The difference was based on conditions of the race I Fans Fan Fin Fifty thousand or more turf I I fans were expected to crowd into the track Official forecasts said the weather would be clear and I bright and the track fast fasl Post time Approximately pm p.m. Salt Lake time I The Thc Maturity was originated four years ago and is restricted to 1 year old horses The 1951 jack Jack- I pot was the thc largest of all time I in turf history Racing against tHe Vanderbilt i fillies was a field that listed eight I colts coIls and one other fill filly the thc latter lattera I a California bred named Special Touch and any anyone one of them was I given iven a chance of upsetting the I Vanderbilt queens I Included were the King ranch's Beau Ma Max Clifford Mooers' Mooers Sudan I Mr and Mrs Clem Clement nt L L. L Hirsch's I Blue Reading John DuBois Wack's Vack's Great Circle Thomas G. G Bensons Benson's I Loto hite Louis Rowans Rowan's Akimbo I the Owl stables stable's Last Round and I the La Jolla farms farm's Grandfather Victory by Next Move Bed O 0 Roses Special Touch or Last Round found would be worth 1 They were supplemental entries at a head which lowers Jowers their net award aard A winner winnel from the lie ranks of the theother theother I other seven would bring I As foals of 1917 they were nominated nomi nomi- and kept eligible through I payment of annual fees since This accumulation of fees which started start start- I ed cd out in 19 1918 1013 IS when yearlings were made eligible at 25 apiece plus the usual entry and starting starting- fees and and put up by the track accounts for the tremendous I wealth of the gross purse I Other Awards I Other money awards Include sums of and 10 10 to the second third and fourth I place finishers 1000 I and 2000 to the nominators of the I first four finishers and a 1 award to the breeder of the winner win win- j I ner ncr if it was bred in California I IThe The turfs turf's previous largest I pur purses es were the gross 14 i handed landed out for the 1916 Santa i iAnita Anita Handicap and the net sum sum of won by Azucar in the I initial Santa Anita Handicap in 1935 Focus of ot attention was Next Move with top stakes rider Eddie Arcaro aboard Next Move was acclaimed the year old filly of the year for 1950 and is the big money winner in the field with i to her credit acquired in 28 starts of her career I Next Move drew high weight of i pounds but was expected to I grab the pace and probably hold It I Ready to take over however as the the experts saw it was washer j i her Bed 0 O Roses which boasted an impressive record record rec ree- ord old of 13 wins in 33 starts and earnings of Strongest opposition figured to come from Beau Max Ma te and Special Touch or possibly Great Circle I