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Churchill Downs Handicap Draws Nine With Hail Victory Choice Calumet Homebred Out to Annex Fourth in Row in 70000 Mile Headliner HeadlinerCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 1 The eighth renewal of the 10000 added Churchill Downs Handicap will fea ¬ ture a well balanced program arranged for presentation tomorrow at the Derby course Connections for nine of the original 48 nominees named their charges through the entry box for the one mile test and the race shapes up as one of the better offerings of the current Kentucky spring season seasonCalumet Calumet Farms homebred Hail Victory winner of his last three starts has been assigned topweight for the feature and he will go postward under 121 pounds Dis ¬ playing excellent form during the recent Keeneland meeting Hail Victory ran his successful streak to three straight when he achieved major honors here in the seventy second running of the Clark Handicap on inaugural day Jockey Douglas Dodson Calumet contract rider will be at the reins on Hail Victory in the Churchill Downs DownsSirius Sirius Phoenix Handicap Winner WinnerMrs Mrs V E Smiths silks are to be carried in tomorrows stake by Sirius who always has been partial to the local racing strip and turned in several smashing perform ¬ ances here last autumn Sirius who will shoulder 120 pounds looked like a good horse when he won the 1946 renewal of the Phoenix Handicap at Lexington Jockey Andy LoTurco who piloted Sirius at Keene ¬ land is to have the mount tomorrow on the Smith hopeful hopefulBull Bull Play who accounted for the Ben All Handicap at Keeneland and finished third in the Clark affair making the pace until near the finish in the latter event will carry Walter W Jones colors in the Churchill Downs Bull Play will find the flat mile distance to his advantage and he may prove the horse to whip in the headliner R Campbell is to ride the Jones representative representativeCompleting Completing the field for the Churchill Downs are Hal Price Headleys Letmenow 110 pounds Bernard J Baxs Sigma Kappa 110 Carl Grahams Night Crawler 112 W C Huntleys Umpydan 109 John D Rogers Walkie Talkie 106 and Milton Shagrins Darby Dimout 108 pounds Night Crawler won a six furlongs overnight event at the current meeting and he is rated the danger at the weights
