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I J i J ! j Ben Ali Brings Regular Keeneland Meet to End Anticlimax Carries Top Weight Of Five Entered in Headliner LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 21— The I Keeneland organizations most successful I spring meet will be concluded at Churchill I Downs tomorrow, with a renewal of the Ben Ali Handicap as the matinee s stellar attraction. This heritage from the dis- mantled Kentucky Association track is at a mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds and upward, and. with a purse of ,000 ! added, has attracted a smallish but classy field of five promised starters. Hal Price j Headleys Anticlimax is the top weight of handicapper Burtons acceptances, under 115 pounds, which requires him to concede ; two pounds to A. C. Ernsts Alquest. five to • C. U. Yaegers Parasang. six to Dearborns 5 Samborombon and 15 to Camps First, who I races for Felix Rando. On best form. Anticlimax, who captured 1 the Clark Handicap here last spring, would I seem fully deserving of top weight and the B post of favoritism. However, he must improve - rather remarkably over his seasonal I debut in the opening days Phoenix Handicap - to be a factor in the finish of the Ben l Ali. Parasang will be the medium of a a ! ! good deal of support off his winning race e earlier in the week, when he carried 120 and 1 ran a mile in 1:3923 in front of some moderately - capable horses, including Camps s First. Samborombon, an eight -year-old South U American stallion, was a steady third to Full Cry and Corona Corona in the seven furlongs of the Walmac Handicap in his s last effort. Alquest is second only to Anticlimax - in the weight assignments and could, I, conceivably, be the winner off his best Miami form. He has trained in almost t identically the same notch as has his three-year-old - stablemate, Alorter, since coming g Continued on Page Txdo 1 j Ben Ali Brings Regular Keeneland Meet to End Continued jrom Page One to the Downs. And Alorter put in a keen mile behind Bell Buzzer in the Stony Point. The track was fast and the weather clearing as entries for the week-ends program I were filed. The attendance will be near ! 15.000 it is predicted. The Ben Ali last year was won by A. C. Ernsts Aletern, at the direct expense of Valdina Orphan and Corydon. Ahead of that, such capable runners as Main Man, Burning Star and Arabs Arrow were among its victors. The ensuing renewal promises one of the most spirited contests in . the stakes recent history.
