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4 Wl % jjfl I WARREN STRICKLER— Donned silks as a full-fledged rider yesterday at Churchill Downs. He won the first race of his career at the Louisville track a year ago. See Aonbarr Choice In Downs Feature Deemed Kentucky Handicap Favorite by Reason of Good Second Behind Whirlaway LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 14.— The highly successful 1942 spring meeting at Churchill Downs will come to a close on Saturday and the featured Kentucky Handicap will bring a pretentious stakes program to a fitting conclusion. The Kentucky, a one and one-eighth mile test, will have its 24th running and attracted no less than 60 nominations. The stake has always been most popular with local racing devotees in this sector and it always has taken a good horse to annex top honors. Such thoroughbreds as Rudolfo, Luke McLuke, King Gorin, Cudgel, Exterminator, Cherry Tree, Flat Iron, Toro, Gallant Knight and Shot Put, among others, have accounted for previous runnings of the Kentucky. J. J. Troxlers King Nadi won the 1925 and 1926 renewals and the veteran campaigner, Mucho Gusto, also is a double winner in the event, having scored in 1938 and 1941. Well-Balanced Field Expected A well-balanced field is expected to contest the Kentucky this year, and the probable favorite is Miss Helen Hickmans Aonbarr, who ran Whirlaway to a head decision in the Clark Handicap here on opening day. The son of Boatswain and Hede-mora will go postward under an impost of 115 pounds and he will have the saddle services of Joe Dyer, who handled him in many of his important engagements during 1941. Others expected to answer the bugle for the Kentucky are Junius W. Balls Steel Heels, Mrs. Carl Grahams Boss Hoss, W. C. Hobsons Shine ONight, Smith G. Baker, Sr.s Meggy, Jacob Lowensteins Heartman, Mrs. Edith L. Martins Supreme Sir, R C Stables Royal Crusader, Theodore E. Muellers Agricole, Howard Wells Equifox and Woolford Farms Technician. Three of the possible starters in the Saturday headline attraction were on the track for trials this morning. Heartman, Lowensteins representative, turned a mile in 1:4245, breezing the eight furlongs in handy style. Woolfords Technician was sent five-eighths in 1:04, but he was not asked for high speed at any stage of the move. Boss Hoss indicated his fitness when he worked a mile in 1:43% handily. The Graham colorbearer came back to the stand in excellent shape and his assignment of only 105 pounds for the Kentucky marks him as a dangerous threat.
