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BULL LEA TOPS WEIGHT LIST Wright Horse Assigned 126 Pounds for Kentucky Handicap. Widener Cup Winner Turned Out at Farm, However — Race Is Downs Closing Feature on Saturday. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 16— Bull Lea, Warren Wrights winner of the Widener Challenge Cup at Hialeah Park, has been honored with top weight, 126 pounds, for Saturdays running of the Kentucky Handicap. The race is the closing day feature of Churchill Downs spring meeting, but since he has been turned out following a slight injury in Maryland, the honor will be shared by Burning Star and Arabs Arrow, which have been assigned 122 pounds each. Both on the scene and likely to contest the mile and a furlong feature for three-year-olds and upward, Burning Star will represent the Shandon Farm of P. A. and R. J. Nash while Arabs Arrow is to carry the hopes of Mrs. Louise J. Hickman, of Louisville. Fifty horses were nominated for the ,500 added stake which will be run this week-end for the twenty-first time. Weights were announced today. SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGNER. Arabs Arrow has been consistently successful at Churchill Downs and Saturday will be trying for his third stakes triumph of the meeting. He won the Clark Handicap on opening day and then came back to earn a dead heat for first money with John Marschs Kings Blue in the Churchill Downs Handicap. Last year he won both the Louisville and Churchill Downs Handicaps. Burning Blaze will be making his first important, start in Kentucky since the Keene-land meeting where he accounted for the John H. Morris Diamond Anniversary and Ben Ali Handicaps. Other horses which may be found in the : Kentucky Handicap on Saturday are James i W. Parrishs Dellor, Woolford Farms Robert L., Tall Trees Stables Last Message, Mrs. R. J. Murphys Knee Deep, M. J. Schmitfs °«ui ?Aar Bert bends Co-Sport, Mose Uoidblatts Dnieper, Dixianas Torchy and others. The Kentucky Handicap, revived last year after having been dropped in 1932, was won last year by Mucho Gusto. I Weights for the stake follow: _ Horse. Wt Horse. wt Bull Lea 126 Knee Deep 104 Arabs Arrow 122 Dnieper 104 Burning Star 122 Steel Heels 103 Tunica n6 Our Willie 103 £elIor 116 Ted Easy 102 Count Morse 114 Cristate ic Robert L. 114 Taken 102 Torchy 112 Avesta 102 Tiger 112 Noel H. 102 Joe Schenck 112 Feng 109 Mars Shield in Rushaway 102 Dusty Dawn no Cutlas io« Military n0 Sabariel 102 Forever Prince 108 Total Eclipse 102 Amor Brujo v 108 Tiger Teddy 102 John One 108 George S. D. 101 Co-Sport 107 Miss Bonnie 101 Sortie Star 107 Buttermilk 101 Palamede 106 Buffalo Bill 101 Xavier 106 Miss Sarah 101 EasyMon 105 Play Pence 100 Professor Paul 105 Jeffersontown 98 AlauFeu 105 Three Bangs 98 Novelette 105 Hollywood Ace 95 Manie OHara 104 Isolene 95 — —
