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. , 1 l l 1 J I Record Number of Rich Harness Races This Year Member Tracks of USTA Card 101 Worth 0,000 or More in Value COLUMBUS, Ohio Harness horses will race for a record number of purses valued at 0,000 or more in 1952. Proposed racing programs filed for approval by member tracks with the United States Trotting Association indicate there will be 101 races in the 0,000 and up category-this year. Thats seven more than in 1951 and 20 more than in 1950. In all probability the number will be swelled by rich invitational races not yet announced. Leading the dollar parade as usual will be a trio of three-year-old events, two for trotters and one for pacers. Richest of them all will be the Hamble-tonian Stake for trotters to be raced August 6 at Goshen, N. Y. The blue ribbon harness racing classic will pack an estimated 0,000 purse. Second richest will be the Kentucky Futurity, a 0,000 feature for trotters, to be raced at Lexington, Ky., October 2.- Richest pacing race is the Little Brown Jug for sophomore sidewheelers. It will be raced at Delaware, Ohio, September 18 and will be worth an estimated 5,000. Most important newcomers to the rich race category are three Illinois events. Two of them, the two-year-old trotting and pacing divisions of the new Illinois Colt Stakes will be worth 0,000 apiece and will be raced at the Illinois State Fair, Spring-I field, August 11. The 5,000 Sportsmans Park Pacing Derby will be raced at Cicero August 8. Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, Long Island, has carded its usual pair of 0,000 events and will also sponsor a pair of 5,000 invitational races. The 0,000 Nassau for free-for-all pacers will be staged July 31 and the 0,000 Roosevelt for trotters will go to the post September 11. Both are at the two mile distance. The Roosevelt Invitationals in- elude the 5,000 American Trotting Championship on July 24, and the National Pacing Derby July 3. Top races on the West Coast were a pair of 5,000 added free-for-all features, the Golden West Trot and the Golden West Pace. The trot was run on April 26 and the pace on May 3.
