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Air Poise Wei! Regarded In Ascots Old Mil! Purse Reeves Runner Second to See D. Last Out; HoneyIight Contender By W. A. CRUSE Staff Correspondent ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, June 28. The Old Mill purse holds the spotlight here Monday a,nd is the best of a program given over entirely to platers. The eight three-year-olds and older which run for ,700 to ,500 are a sprightly group and the six and one-half furlongs they will traverse in quest of a portion of the ,000 purse should be on par with the best time at the meeting for the distance. J. Dillons The Marne, C Freemans Grand Pose, L. P. Kilvingtons Rickey Boy, Mrs. Edith and J. Phillips Pictor Review, V. McKinneys Honeylight, Mrs. W. V. Reeves Air Poise, Mrs. C, Reeds Wa-Pay and M. Nelsons Claridge make up the field. Air Poise finished second to the five-time winner See D. The latter is one of the more consistent speedsters in this part of the country and was five lengths the better of Air Poise after going the six and one-half furlongs in 1:21. Off that effort, which was in the Ascot Big Four Purse, he should be the one to beat in this band. Honeylight was also in the Big Four, and was sixth in the seven-horse field. However, it was "his first outing over this course after a little more than a three-week rest. The Star Beacon gelding did, however, finish a bang-up third to Miss M. Stallards Chief McKee and Mrs. J. D. Prices Donald Young at Cranwood Park on May 31. He came from well off the pace at seven furlongs to be only two lengths back for it all. The last may have been the conditioner needed for another better effort. There are two distance races carded as the sixth and eighth. Both have a one and one-sixteenth mile setting and, although the sixth has but six drawn overnight, it should be the more interesting contest of the two. O. Duffs Tabouret and J. Inglishs Happy Jack. will furnish the competition in the sixth and it is difficult to separate the two. Happy Jack was the winner of the eighth race on June 17 and that was at the one and one-quarter mile route. Tabouret was fourth ia that race beaten by a nose, head and one-half length. Prior to this Tabouret was a length in front of nine others going a mile and sixteenth during which the Pilate mare and jockey Howard Craig were timed in 1:48. Others to round out the field are Tel OSullivan, Idle Jane, War Spy and Sun It-and each has earned a share in previous efforts.
