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Star Field of Eight Goes In Chicago Pacing Derby Good Time Choice Over Solicitor. Royal Blackstone, Atomic Might MAYWOOD PARK, Maywood, 111., June 19. — A crack field of eight, headed by the defending champion Good Time, will start tomorrow night in the seventh renewal of the 1,200 Chicago Pacing Derby at May-wood Park. The stake, to be raced in two-mile dashes, will climax the Maywood season which ends Saturday. With continued good weather, the May-wood mile record appears certain to be broken. Jimmy Creed set the standard at 2:03% in the 1948 derby and that mark has been matched twice in derby trials in the past two weeks. Good Time, owned by William H. Cane, promoter of the famed Hambletonian, owns the fastest mile ever raced by a harness horse at 1:57%. A week ago the pint-sized champion, whose 30,000 earnings are a record for pacers, set a track record at Buffalo Raceway by covering the mile in 2:01. Good Time will open as a favorite to win his second derby despite a poor post position draw of No. 8 in the first dash and No. 5 in the second dash. Opposing him will be Hanover Shoe farms Solicitor, H. B. Warrens H. D. Hanover, Brown Stables Royal Blackstone, Otis Andersons Atomic Might, Raleigh Pollards Doctor Cooper, actor Charles Coburns Rush Hour, and H. T. Kings Red Sails. Each of the starters is rated a threat to Good Times crown. Solicitor, which draws the No. 2 position in both dashes, holds the worlds recordior three-year-olds at 1 :572;-,. set against the clock last year at Lexington. Ky. H. D. Hanover has won in 1:59% and has been clocked in 2 : 04 in both his derby preliminary starts. Royal Blackstone, twice winner of the Sportsmans Pace, won both dashes of the Northville Open at Detroit in his only two starts this year. Atomic Might, successful in four May-wood efforts, will start from the favored pole position in the first dash. Doctor Cooper, the Cinderella horse who tied the track record in a recent start, draws the pole in the second dash. The mark was tied again a week ago by Red Sails in the Chicago Press Photographers Pace. The nations best-known drivers also will be on hand for the Derby. Prank Erwin will fly here from New York to drive Good Time; Jim Simpson, national driving champion in 1951, will arrive by private plane to pilot Solicitor, and Harold Well-man will come from Detroit to drive Royal Blackstone. Tom Pollard, 22, who will guide Doctor Cooper, and Gene Riegle, 23, who will drive Red Sails, are two of the youngest sulky pilots ever to appear in derby competition.
