Aonbarr May Make 43 Bow Tomorrow: Hickman Ace Set For Sprint Offering; Sales Talk, Harvard Square Also May Compete in Event Supporting La Salle Renewal, Daily Racing Form, 1943-06-11

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Aonbarr May Make 43 Bow Tomorrow Hickman Ace Set For Sprint Offering OfferingSales Sales Talk Harvard Square Also May Compete in Event Supporting La Salle Renewal RenewalSTICKNEY STICKNEY 111 June 10 Miss Helen Hickmans Aonbarr later expected to be a strong force in the Chicago handicap division is scheduled to make his first start of the year in a sprint which will be of ¬ fered in support of the 5000 La Salle Handicap at Hawthorne Saturday The race is a sixfurlong affair and in it the fiveyearold son of Boatswain will be opposed by some of the best sprinters here among them Mrs A M Creechs Sales Talk Allen T Simmons Harvard Square and Eddie Andersons threeyearold Burnt Cork CorkAonbarr Aonbarr raced with some of the best handicap horses in the country last year and in the course of his campaign he won two stakes and placed in eight others In one the historic Clark Handicap at Church ¬ ill Downs he came within a head of beat ¬ ing the champion himself Whirlaway The two important events that he won were the Kentucky Handicap also at Churchill Downs and the Grayson Stakes at Pim lico licoAmong Among the features in which he earned a share of the purse were the Ben Ali Handicap the Churchill Downs Handicap the Sussex Handicap the Quaker City Handicap the Trenton Handicap the Havre de Grace Handicap and the Ex ¬ terminator terminatorReady Ready for Return to Competition CompetitionThe The Hickman gelding has been patiently prepped for his return to competition and before the summer is over his connections have hopes of seeing him hold his own with the best that take part in the Arling ¬ ton and Washington Park meetings Essen ¬ tially a distance horse the six furlongs of Saturdays race may not be to his entire liking but trainer Jimmy McGee looks for him to give a good account of himself nevertheless neverthelessIn In Sales Talk and Harvard Square Aon ¬ barr will be meeting horses who already have won races during the Lincoln Fields meeting Sales Talk having captured the Grand Crossing Handicap and Harvard Square more recently having taken the Graemere Hotel Purse Burnt Cork has placed in three Lincoln Fields sprint fea ¬ tures He was third in the Steger Handi ¬ cap second in the Drake Hotel Handicap and third in the Crete Handicap HandicapThe The La Salle Handicap a run of a mile and threesixteenths is expected to draw a strong field of distance runners Point ¬ ing for this weekend fixture are A C Ernsts Aletern winner of the Francis S Peabody Memorial Handicap Valdina Farms Valdina Orphan and Rounders Mrs Marie Evans Shot Put the Walmac Farms Bushwhacker Galbreath Diensts Best Seller and David Straus Daily Trou ¬ ble


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