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EAGLE PASS TOP WEIGHT Assigned 122 Pounds in Claiborne Handicap, Todays Chief Offering at Keeneland. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 19. One of the most attractive offerings of the current Keeneland meeting is on schedule for Wednesday afternoon, with the Claiborne Handicap, a dash at six furlongs, heading the program of seven races arranged for the occasion. Ten of the fourteen nominations for the Claiborne Handicap appeared in the overnight entries and brings together some of the fleetest sprinters in this section to match strides for the ,200 purse. Valdina Farms four-year-old Eagle Pass drew the top weight assignment and will shoulder 122 pounds, if trainer J. J. Flanigan decides to send his charge postward in the dash. Eagle Pass is to carry two pounds more than Calumet Farms Crossbow n., which has been given a burden of 120 pounds, while the Tall Trees Stables Bacon is rated third highest in the esteem of the handicap-per, drawing a weight assignment of 118 pounds. The entire field of ten that is scheduled to contest in the Claiborne Handicap will be making their first appearance of the current session at the Lexington course, but the majority of the scheduled starters engaged in winter racing in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and California,
