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! Seven-Horse Field -In Ascot Special Safe Arrival Out for Fourth Straight While Facing Scrub," En Route at Mile, Sixteenth By W. A. CRUSE Staff Correspondent ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, June 27. The Ascot Special, another of the traditional offerings of the Ascot Park Jockey Club, is the feature offering on one of the finest nine-race programs of any Saturday to date. Although the fields are light or with just the maximum number drawn, the competition should provoke enough wagering to again shatter the existing records. The Special has its customary one and one-sixteenth miles setting and for three-year-olds.and older allowance campaigners, it again offers a ,000 purse. Including an entry, there are seven drawn to match strides and the field is so well matched that it is virtually impossible to determine which: should be in line for the major supports According to the conditions, Safe Arrival, half of the A and H Stable entry, is top-weighted with J28 pounds. Next in consideration is trie other part of the entry Garrymark, who along with the Safiko Stables En Route will shoulder 122. A". W. Messersmiths Scrub is to carry 120 pounds and they would be the four to separate. R. K. McGreerys Solar Lad, O. and R. Pollocks Colonel Pap and Mrs. K. J. Heiseys Oklahoma Time round out the field and each is to carry 114 pounds. Nose Victor in Mayflower Safe Arrival has turned in three consecutive victories, two of which were in the better affairs at this meeting. The Eight Thirty gelding nosed out Scrub at the wire in the Mayflower Purse which had a six and one-half furlongs setting. He followed that by beating the Dorchester Farms Oreo by a length in the Akron-Cleveland Purse. That was a one and one-sixteenth mile race and Oreo waseight lengths on topbe-fore going a half mile. He carried 118 pounds in both of these races and the four pounds added may not deter from his chances in any way. En Route was behind him also in his last-victory but has also earned a sizable portion for his efforts this season. En Routes most recent winning performance was in the Decoration Day Purse at Cranwood Park on May 30. The Whirl-away gelding was a. half length better than Garrymark and negotiated a mile and one-eighth around the sharp turns of that half-miler in 1:55 over a fast track. Prior A,o that though, he was well beaten by Safe Arrival in another allowance event at one and one-sixteenth miles. The seventh race, for three-year-olds and older platers which run for ,500 to ,000 is an ideal co-feature. Seven accepted the issue at six and one-half furlongs and Mr. and Mrs. Decavitchs Glitter Gulch should draw most support. The Grand Slam gelding has turned in four consecutive victories and it is difficult to say just how good he is right now. He began his winning performances in ,000 company and scaled the ladder successfully to win more impressively each time. Rounding out the field are Swans Cadet, j Even Better, Lord Baltimore, Wise Advisor, Ruths Vacation and Erra B., and should either race to one of their best efforts, Glitter Gulch would have his work cut out for him.
