Bir Acheim in American Bow Today: French-Bred Vies With Ten Others; Hasty Sun, However, Likely Choice in Mile Kenilworth Purse at Arlington Course, Daily Racing Form, 1948-06-25

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Bir Acheim in American Bow Today FrenchBred Vies With Ten Others OthersHasty Hasty Sun However Likely Choice in Mile Kenilworth Purse at Arlington Course CourseARLINGTON ARLINGTON PARK Arlington Heights HI June 24 Bir Acheim an invader from France will make his initial start on the American turf in the Kenilworth Purse here tomorrow afternoon The fouryear old son of Le Chatelet Cabanella is owned by Dmitri Djordjadze and was purchased in Europe for a reported high figure He is here under the care of the young trainer Reggie Cornell and is said to have ac ¬ climated himself to the American way of racing in fine style styleBir Bir Acheim who will be ridden by Mer ritt A Buxton faces a field of 10 in the Kenilworth scheduled at one mile and pat ¬ terned for threeyearolds and upward While none of his rivals have ever shown any pretensions of being firstraters they are a worthy lot that should test him to the hilt The field includes Hal Price Headleys Catsmeow Augustus Nahms Wee Mistress Woolford Farms Hasty Sun Brownell Combs Riot and Mrs A B Karles Kaslick which will run coupled in the wagering Brolite Farms Fine Story Shady Brook Farms St Louisan J D Higgins L F Warbys Moon Blue Bomar Stables Almas Pet and Mrs John Marschs Benis slma slmaAbout About the only real good line obtainable on Bir Achim was a performance shown by his stablemate Budapest here on opening day Budapest is also owned by Djordjadze and was reported to have cost a tidy sum in France However in his lone outing he broke very poorly and failed to reach con ¬ tention at any time finishing eleventh to Loujac Torello and others Both Bir Achim and Budapest have been working in company in their morning trials and the general belief is that the former is best of the pair pairComing Coming Off Good Effort EffortProbable Probable favorite in the field is Hasty Sun a speedster who comes off a fine race in back of Fighting Pete at Washington Park The fouryearold showed good speed to assume the early lead in that seven furlong sprint and didnt give way until well in the stretch stretchRiot Riot is a homebred who at one time was regarded as one of the most promising young horses in the country He is royally bred being by Whirlaway out of the grand producer Miss Dogwood who is by Bull Dog The threeyearold gelding however has been a bitter disappointment He showed one recent good effort during the Lincoln Fields meeting meetingCatsmeow Catsmeow competed in the same race and managed to close some ground although unable to seriously threaten During his Garden State Park campaign the three yearold son of Menow Scylla showed sev ¬ eral excellent performances including a score in an allowance race raceSharing Sharing the spotlight with the Kenil ¬ worth will be the Glenview a dash of seven furlongs for threeyearolds and upward In this test Mrs Louise Donovans Fight ¬ ing Pete will go out for his third consecu ¬ tive victory The colt has started only once this season and proved himself worthy of much praise He easily beat an ordinary field in his first race but came back with a highly impressive effort to beat Hasty Sun Magnolia Patmiboy and others His main competition will come from Woodf ord Sir with Upstate Glaemel Fantom Ven ¬ ture Wonder Why Wickers Wish and En ¬ chanting rounding out the field


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