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Doctor Cooper Gets Pace Derby Warm-Up Tonight Won Eight Feature Races in 51; Six Others in Maywood Mile Test MAYWOOD PARK, Maywood, HI., May 29. Doctor Cooper will face his second warm-up test preliminary to the Chicago Pacing derby in the main event on. tomorrow nights holiday harness racing program at Maywood Park. Doctor Cooper will join a field of seven in the ,000 eighth race at one mile. Owner Raleigh Pollard of Carmi, 111., has sent Doctor Cooper postward only once before this year, and the eight-year-old Bin Direct gelding had to settle for a fourth-place finish. Poliard is basing his hopes of winning the 0,000 Derby June 20 on the Doctors 1951 record, which included eight feature victories, four in a row, and a mile performance of 2:04, second fastest of the meeting at Maywood. In Doctor; Coopers sulky will be 22-year-old Tom Pollard, who crams driving assignments between his class work as a ! medical student at the University of Illinois. Facing Doctor Cooper will be Mr. Dale, another derby nominee; Scottish Boy, Richard D. Grattan, Goose Island, Miss Ruby, and Laura Jane Tryax. Laura Jane, owned and driven by Lawrence Greene, Dayton, Ohio, will be trying to make it two in a row after scoring her first victory of the year Monday night, Miss Ruby, 14-year-oid mare in her last year of racing, and Goose Island, winner of 18 starts in 1951, have performed consistently against the best pacers at May-wood. Miss Ruby, owned by Elmer Conrad of Corydon; Ihd., has one triumph behind her this year. Goose Island, who carries the colors of William Paisley of Western Springs, has cooled off after winning two of his first four starts. Winding Brook, out of the money only once in nine efforts, will shoot for its third win of the year in a BB class pace event at one mile. Winding Brook will face Wichita Pegasus,. Caramac, Dewey Pointer, Court Lawful, Sheldon Pointer and Adah Tass in the seventh race on the nine-race program. I
