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Ten Mid-Distance Racers Seek My Boy Tom Purse En Route, Garry mark, Oklahoma Kid and Make Haste Go to Post By W. A. CRUSE Staff Correspondent ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, June 6. — Nine races will be the customary offering on Saturday cards throughout this 44-day session ad the* program arranged for tomorrow definitely sets a standard for j/racing secretary and handicapper B. H. Held to maintain. The feature offering as the eighth race, is the My Boy Tom Purse, and is named for the only two-time winner of the Ascot Gold Cup. For three-year-old and older horses under allowance conditions, it has a mile and one-sixteenth setting. The purse is ,800 and 10 of the more consistent campaigners of the season have accepted the issue. Prominent in the group is the Safiko Stables En Route. This Whirlaway gelding was a half length the best of the A and H Stables Garrymark in the Decoration Day Purse at Cranwood. The distance for that affair was one and one-eighth miles and jockey J. Baird had the winner over the course in 1:55% which was just one-fifth of a second off the track record. Other than Garrymark, Mrs. M. Pauls Make Haste is also drawn overnight to compete in the My Boy Tom and was third in the Decoration Day, beaten only a length and one-half for it all. There will be little doubt that this trio will again furnish the strongest sort of competition. Rounding out the field are T. Dunns Even Better, winner of the Three Suns Purse at Cranwood, May 17, A. K. Heisys Oklahoma Time, F. N. Berrys Little Father, S. Wildons Fleet Swallow, P. Maxwells Oklahoma Kid and the Dorchester Farms Bullfield. Seven of the other events are for ,000 platers, but are varied in the distances at which they are to be contested. The first event, however, is for maiden three and four-year-olds. The first four races have a six and one-half furlongs setting, the fifth and sixth are seven furlongs and the seventh and ninth, like the My Boy Tom, are at, one and one-sixteenth miles. In the nightcap, Mrs. E. G. Hoffmans Sun It may be in line for support again. In the last five starts, the Sun Egret gelding was out of the money but once and that was in his initial start at this meeting last Thursday. L. Sheltons Penny Annie is somewhat of a local favorite. Among her victories is the winning of the initial running of the Erin Go Braugh Purse at Cranwood last fall. In her most recent effort she finished third to the Bodnar Brothers Stables Roaring Sea and Mrs. E. Hauslers Gallant Son. That also had a mile and one sixteenth staging with the same type of ,000 claimer, and was among the three choices hi the betting. The race may have been the tightener needed to again exhibit some of her old form.
