Well-Matched Sextet In Ak-Sar-Ben Feature: Big Brother Carries Top Impost Of 122 in American Legion Purse, Daily Racing Form, 1948-06-16

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WellMatched Sextet 1 In AkSarBen Feature FeatureBig Big Brother Carries Top Impost Of 122 in American Legion Purse PurseAKSARBEN AKSARBEN Omaha Nebr June 15 A small but evenlymatched field of six of 1 the better sprinters on the grounds grouped in a claiming range from 4500 to 3500 were named for the American Legion Day Purse feature attraction on tomorrows program at AkSarBen Under the conditions of the headliner which will be contested for a purse of 1300 at the sixfurlong distance W T Beezleys Big Brother will carry the top impost of 122 pounds This wellregarded son of Heliopolis and Scurry by Diavolo has yet to register a success during the theI I current meeting but has been racing con ¬ sistently well and should prove the one to beat in tomorrows engagement In his latest effort last week in the Runnymede purse Big Brother finished unplaced to Sil ¬ ver Fire Dr Cattail and Cowlan but was defeated by only a small margin In addi ¬ tion the competition in the American Le ¬ gion Day Purse should not prove so for ¬ midable as that met in the Runnymede RunnymedeCompleting Completing the field are such as J J Arps Big Sub who will be asked to shoul ¬ der 105 pounds Glen H Bostons Vinita Boy 117 W D Rorick and L O Lanes Sea Goddess 105 A S Higgins Well Wisher 105 and T Manganos Be A Bee also at 105 Big Sub should furnish the most opposition to Big Brother if his last trip postward can be used as a criterion In that endeavor he finished a rapidly clos ¬ ing second to J Snyders fleet Fancy Dog in the creditable time of 112 for the six furlongs furlongsThe The rather interesting program includes six other claiming races and an allowance affair fashioned for threeTyearolds and upward to be contested at five furlongs


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