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Four Leading Stables Are Already at Good Time Track GOSHEN, N. Y.— With four, leading stables already here and more arriving shortly, dust is spiraling over Good Time track as crack Hambletonian candidates burn up the three-sided sulky speedway in early tune-ups for the 0,000 classic August 6. Top favorite now here is Hit Song, with Epicure, Miss Yonkers, Lyra Song arid Diplomat Hanover disputing the colts claims to priority. Ben Franklin White, oldest and best-known Hambletonian reinsman, -and son Gib have just moved into Goshen from Florida winter training with more than 30 topflight trotters and pacers, among them Lyra Song, owned by Ben, who is the only driver to win the Hambletonian four times. Harry Pownall, who tutors Hit Song for" E. R. Harriman, New York, and L. B. Shep-pafd, Hanover, Pa., is now on his home grounds at historic track, across the village square from the famous mile Hambletonian course. Fred Egan who has Epicure entered in the rich August trotting derby for C. W. Phellis, Greenwich, Conn., is schooling his stable at Good Time, along with Frank Ervin, who has William H. Canes Hambletonian hopefuls, Miss Yonkers and Diplomat Hanover, already turning in fast miles after spending most of the winter in Florida. Kite-shaped Good Time track is having its 1952 face lifted, with new surfacing on the track, and the stands spruced up for the annual 00,000 Grand Circuit meeting
