Grey Days May Be Made Cranwood Park Choice: Meets Up With Eight Opponents In Featured Kinsman Purse, Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-19

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Grey Days May Be Made Cranwood Park Choice ChoiceMeets Meets Up With Eight Opponents In Featured Kinsman Purse PurseCRANWOOD CRANWOOD PARK Warrensville Heights Ohio Moy 18 The fans will probably expect H H Fausetts Grey Days to avenge the defeat handed him on open ¬ ing day here and ne most likely will be the choice over the eight rivals he is slated to face in the Kinsman Purse main at ¬ traction on the program tomorrow The eightyearold Halcyon gelding was well supported in the Inaugural Handicap last Wednesday but finished a distant third to Jois going six furlongs the same distance which will be required of the field tomor ¬ row The feature is an allowance contest and offers a prize of 1000 and it will be decided as the sixth race on the card cardGrey Grey Days began the 1948 season with a victory at New Orleans Fair Grounds He was then shipped to Oaklawn Park and there gained a pair of purses in three out ¬ ings against allowance company Lightly campaigned because of infirm underpin ¬ ning Grey Days managed to earn one purse in only six starts last season His lone vic ¬ tory was registered at Thistle Down at Randall Park session Grey Days failed to display the swiftness he was one time noted for in his debut under silks at this session but it can be expected that he benefited from the outing outingHis His stoutest opponent among the group could be J Tabors Orden an invader from the West Coast The fiveyearold Honey Sweet gelding scored in his only outing herej that by a neck over Silver Glory Before being shipped here he earned three purses in eight appearances while cam ¬ paigned for a claiming tag at 4000 arid higher higherMelba Melba Ann coupled with Spry Chic as the Hall Fetzer entry meets consider ¬ ably less stern company in this engage ¬ ment than she found while racing on the Chicago circuit last year There she was unsuccessful in six trips to the post but raced with such as Say Blue Gams and Captain Joe Spry Chic a sharp second to Silver Bull on Saturday enjoyed better success than her running mate while in the Windy City area Although she failed to tally in eight starts she was consist ¬ ently second or third being out of the money but once onceCompleting Completing the lineup in the Kinsman is G McFarlands Tuckie Hit Tune be ¬ longing to the partnership of Grimes Lewis J P Flynns Great Plains Mrs G Van Der Veers Balaam D B Jones Hop On and Liberty Lin and Carlotta an entry for N J Fillman and G S Gladney


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