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I d D 3 3 I £ r c | i . 3 t J ■j ] « C s a , I £ . I e s | r ! * i c . I I j . c ; * a c f • c I j I f I j * ° a j t r Eight Routers Seek Queen City Honors Par-rhe-Pilor, Whatahoss To Attract Most Attention In ,500 River Downs Race By R. E. HURLEY Staff Correspondent RIVER DOWNS, California, Ohio, June 20. — Seven routers have been named overnight to compete in the Queen City Handi- cap tomorrow at the nine-furlong route for the richest purse of the meeting and a harbinger for the richer Cincinnati Special, the Marathon, and the final River Downs Championship. Tomorrows Queen City has lush ,500 purse to shoot for and the horses are the regular handicap performers at this track. Topweighted at 118 pounds is Barry and Fedors Pat-the-Pilot, winner of the Buckeye Handicap two weeks ago over the shorter mile and a sixteenth distance in near record time of 1:43. Next highweight and the bone of contention is Deardorf and McClures Whatahoss, winner of the Coca Cola Handicap at River Downs last week in the slower time of 1:44% for the same distance. These two will be opposed by H. K. Stevens Count Valois, 104; W. Neils Romanda, 106; Welikit Farms Watch Susan, 104, and the W. T. Beezley and C. W. Scott combination of Genial Jack, 109, and Newsbreak, 105. Both Beat Harry-Lou Though the two highweights have not faced each other this season they have a common denominator in the handicap star, Harry-Lou, who has passed up the Queen City to freshen for the richer stakes. Both Pat-the-Pilot and Whatahoss defeated him on successive Staurdays but each one was absent on the day of the others triumph. Pat-the-Pilot scored by a neck over Harry-Lou and picks up six pounds from that victory. The five-year-old Welcome Pass-Masked Marvel n. gelding came from I far back that day and will appreciate the extra sixteenth tomorrow. No rider has been b named to handle the Earry racer but h he is not a hard horse to ride. Whatahoss, conqueror of Harry-Lou by o one and a quarter lengths at the same d distance, has a chance to be a real good I horse. h Though the time for his race was s slower than Pat-the-Pilots victory — the 1 j 1 track was slightly dead from heavy rains • d during the week. Whatahoss graduated [ ! [ | j _. f from the maiden ranks in handicap company v which is a mark of distinction in any ■ mans league and the manner in which the I* I Maeda-Briary Maid colt asserted himself ■ suggests that he will shoulder his seven-| I p pound increase in weight like a good horse l s! should and perform well. Romanda, Genial 1 j Jack and Newsbreak finished third, fifth I I | a t and sixth to Whatahoss well in arrears of I * the winner. They may profit from the I | lack of the pacesetting elam of Harry-Lou a and cut out the pace themselves but it Is I d doubtful that they have the inherent qual-i il ities of the topweights. 1 Watch Susan appears overmatched and q Count Valois failed against much cheaper than s are present in the Queen City on fe Saturday. „
