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Ak-Sar-Ben Horse Colony y Has Reached 400 Mark Sledge and McBride Stables of Oklahoma Latest to Check In OMAHA, Nebr., April 30. — The horse se population at Omahas Ak-Sar-Ben track ,k neared the 400 mark this week as the mid-western j_ " plant continued preparations for its 33-day meet, May 22 through July 4. Mr. and Mrs. C. McDonough have notified i Ak-Sar-Bens racing secretary and .j presiding steward, R. A. "Dick" Leigh, that at they will arrive early next month with three California runners, including their top racer, Mad Moment, a five-year-old by 3V High Strung, out of Abeyance. The horse, ,e which will compete in the April 28 0,-000 J _ Bay Meadows Handicap, finished fourth in that event last year and beat out Sunny Toots in the 6,000 added Colorado j0 Mile at Centennial Park. Mad Moment ™ is a winner of four races in 1950 campaigning. Two Oklahoma horsemen with a total of of nine horses are among the newest arrivals. [s Olen Sledge, Oklahoma City, has bedded J down five including Gay Tempo, a three-year-old ~~ filly by Errard, out of Bel Tempo, ?: 1 and a winner of three last year. Sledge paid JJ ,000 for her at the recent Hot Springs f3 meet. The Sledge string also has the three-year-old r" gelding Ben Pardoned, a two-time 3 winner last year, by Fire Signal, out of Zora. Another Oklahoman, E. D. McBride, has ?J arrived from Laverne, Okla., with four 1950 ;u winners — three fillies and a gelding. Three-year-olds " in the stable are Flying Glass, J Jody P. and Sooner Gal. The gelding is four-year-old Paradaro.
