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Twelve Randall Routers In Au Re voir Handicap Pilogy Seeks Third Victory of Meeting Under 116-Pound Impost RANDALL PARK, North Randall, Ohio, May 28. Mondays nine-race Memorial Day program will bring to a conclusion this 20-day Thistle Down - at - Randall Park meeting. The Thistle Down Racing Association will, however, again this fall present 24 days of racing, from September 12 through October 8. Racing will return to this course at an earlier date also, when the Randall Park Racing Association holds its summer meeting of 44 days duration, July 22 through September 10. The present operations have been none too successful from the standpoint of attendance and mutuel handle, although todays program and the closing day holiday card are expected to raise the average a comfortable margin. Cool and rainy weather may have contributed greatly to this lack of enthusiasm for the sport by the people in the greater Cleveland area, although the racing itself has been of impeccable quality. General manager Harold Allshouse is optimistic, however, and looks forward to their fall meeting with enthusiasm. Racing secretary Luther H. Van Zandt has arranged an admirable card for the closing day, featured by the mile and one-sixteenth Au Revoir Handicap. An even dozen of the best performers have been nominated, and a particularly interesting contest is in prospect. Harold W. Shaffers stocky four-year-old son of Pilate, Pilogy, has been burdened with the high weight of 116 pounds, followed by Cleveland-owned Stephen Utz King Pine, with 114. Other dominant entrants are John P. Flynn!s Great Plains, Hall and Fetzers Spry Chick, Mrs. R. Ponds Wayfarer, Mrs. L. McKnights Radar Man, A. E. Harpers Battle H, Question Mark Stables Alabama Boy, and Samuel J. Browns entry of License and Maintaining. Pilogy appears deserving of foremost consideration, having won two races in convincing style at "this course. He will also have the services of jockey James Baird, the leading rider of the meeting, who is well accustomed to his style of running. Pilogy, at times, is difficult to handle during a race, often showing a lack of spirit in the early stages, always having a decided tendency to lug toward the inside railing.
