Soverton Among Eleven Seeking Sterling Purse: Two Other Route Races Besides Feature Carded at Sportsmans, Daily Racing Form, 1944-05-08

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Soverton Among Eleven Seeking Sterling Purse PurseTwo Two Other Route Races Besides Feature Carded at Sportsmans SportsmansCICERO CICERO 111 May 6 The final full week of racing at Sportsmans Park will get under way Monday and the Sterling Purse a mile and a sixteenth affair for a purse of 1500 will be headlined The event has attracted a field of 11 one of whom is necessarily1 on the alsoeligible list It may be that Soverton a California bred who ran second in his first outing of the Chicago season will be favored However Milk Flip is the top weight with 116 pounds Others are Eniscorthy Mae ¬ james Tex Hygro Rush Act Gourmet Piplad and Quarterback with Letter V baing the alsoeligible alsoeligibleTwo Two other mile and onesixteenth events are down for decision One to be known as the Junior Traffic Club Purse will have a value of 1100 and will be run as the fifth race It will engage Fishers Pet and Uncle Mose previous winners at the meet ¬ ing as well as Belfry Chimes Juanita M Fujiwara and Idle Sun The other distance affair will be run as the seventh race with the feature sandwiched in between An ¬ other route affair will be the concluding number which will be at one mile and 70 yards Three fivefurlong dashes and a six and a half furlong event complete the card cardAlthough Although favorites have been doing fairly well at Sportsmans Park this season it may be that the percentage of winning choices will rise during the last half of the session The public now has a fair line on the racers and is expected to tab them pretty well within the next seven racing days daysThe The Cuban jockey Marcus Pena the owa boy Eddie Franklin and the Michigan Apprentice Jack Wesley Martin seemed to stand out a trifle over their rivals during the first half of the meeting and all are expected to finish in the prize money being awarded by the management in the jockey


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