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! , i j ! | Expect Aletern to Seek Ben Ali Handicap Again Ernst Horse, Winner Last Year, Is Among Twenty Nominations LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 31.— The Ben Ali Handicap, which is one of the five stakes to be run during the Keeneland meeting at Churchill Downs this spring, can afford A. C. Ernsts Aletern the opportunity of being the first horse ever to win any Keeneland feature two years in succession. The five-year-old son of Eternal, | who whipped the odds-on favorite, Valdina i Orphan, in last years renewal, and 19 other handicap performers have been named for the mile and a sixteenth event which will highlight the program Saturday, April 22. Louise J. Hickmans Arabs Arrow is the only horse ever to win one running of the Ben Ali Handicap and to finish as good as 1 third in another renewal. Arabs Arrow, now a stallion at the Hickman farm, was third to Burning Star and Birthday in the 1939 renewal of the Ben Ali Handicap, and won in 1940 from Shot Put, Easy Mon and others. The Phoenix Handicap, also for I three-year-olds and upward, is the only other Keeneland spring stakes which the same horse can win more than once, and only one horse has finished in the money j twice in that race. Calumet Farms Easy Mon was second to Torchy in the 1939 run-. ning of the Phoenix and won the following I spring from Bill Farnsworth, Armor Bearer and others. Owner Ernst of Cleveland, Ohio, also! nominated Alquest, a four-year-old son of Questionnaire, for the Ben Ali Handicap. Greentree Stable nominated Four Freedoms, winner of The Widener at Hialeah, , and Famous Victory. Hal Price Headley also named two horses. They are the good mare, Askmenow, and Anticlimax, a good stakes winner last season. The only other nominator to name more than one horse was Warren Wrights Calumet Farm, which has Sun Again, Mar-Kell, Son of Peace, Ocean Wave and Pensive I eligible for the race. Other candidates include Miss Ruth Collins Kokua, Dearborn j Stables imported Samborombon, Dearby Dan Farms Darby Donhe, R. W. Mcll-jvains The Native, Alfred P. Parkers Byj j Jimminy, Albert W. Plocks Woodford Lad, Felix Randos Camps First. Mrs. Albert Sabaths Alsab and C. U. Yaegers Para-! sang. j | | | I ■ • I j I j j 1 | 1 j I j j | , I I i j i
