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tj I i 1 I I L I j I I ; I I ! l I - • j j ] ; ; j ; j ; • 4 t , f i ; ■ ; I I r s l e * s s E g j g 5 59 £ 0 of * c ° of Y, J ° -1 J of t n si Rodney to Try for Sweep Of Spa Driving Crowns Largest Nominator for Spring, 1 Summer and Fall Stake Events j SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.. April 30. I. 1 — Aubrey Rodney will try to pull the hat t trick at Saratoga Raceway this year. Like e i the hockey player going after three goals. :. I the veteran harness racing driver will 1 i shoot for three driving crowns — spring, , t summer and fall. s Already a large nominator for the spring r r and summer meetings, Rodney was an- nounced today as the largest contributor r t to a record entry for the 42 early-closing r t events of the Soa fall trots. He made 67 t nominations on 19 members of his big pub- - £ lie stable. In all, racing secretary Frank Woodland i v received 1,608 nominations for the fall fea- - s tures which will be worth an all-time high 1 a a of 4600. The nominations represented [ n 475 individual horses and gave each event t an average of 38 entries. These figures ; "V completely eclipsed the records set by the ; a fall program of last year when 34 events ; t drew 921 nominations, 330 horses and an 1 a average entry of 27. il it There was an interesting fact behind 1 Rodneys entry. The Saratoga Springs 1 ft reinsman has won the summer champion- c ship at the Raceway for the last five years, , tl but he has never won a fall title. Apparently, hes out to end the jinx this year, y Meantime, he has his eyes on the new v spring meet, which opens the Raceway sea- o son June 4. t Second largest nominator for the fall meet was the Garland Garnsey Stable of f Syracuse with 66 entries on 17 horses, si Frank L. Wiswalls Runnymede Farm L Stable of Saratoga ranked third with rs on 10. a; Other large nominators included John A. d do Seymour of DeKalb Junction, Mose Deyo Cairo, Ernest B. Morris Springwood E Farm of Loudonville, Peter Pan Stable of A Canton, Ohio, E. P. Cray of Bellows Falls, di Vt., M. G. Farhart and Raymond W. Chase 5 51 Gloversville, Ruderman Stables of Gou-verneur, Cardinal Beverage Stable of Port rj Clinton, Ohio, James Barton of Saratoga ai Springs, Murray Dailey of Albion, George W Tingley of Afton, Sturdy Dog Food Stable Syracuse, Russell C. Carpenter of Chester, C. H. Burton of Vernon, W. Ellis Gil- w mour of Saratoga Springs and Jacob Mer- Is sky of New Holland, Pa.
