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tOn the Trot | 1 By MORRIE KURLANSKY Maywood Fans in for Real Treat Lou Huber, Jr., String Moves In Bomb Sight No. 1 Star of Stable MAYWOOD PARK, Maywood, 111.. May 1. — Maywood Park trotting fans are in for a real treat when Lou Huber, Jr., moves in with a better than useful string of trotters and pacers, the star of which is the four-year-old trotting colt, Bomb Sight, by Bombs Away — Novalee. Since the stable of the Mt. Healthy, Ohio, reins-man has not campaigned in the Chicago area for the last two years, his return welcomes an opportunity to enlight en local followers as to the abilities of this young trainer and especially his very good trotter, Bomb Sight. A few facts about the 30-year-old Lou Huber, Jr., son of a noted trainer and driver of harness horses, Lou Huber, Sr., who will be remembered here for his victories with the one-time world record trotting mare, Glenyce 2:06, by Scotland at Maywood Park in 1946. Huber, Jr. made 260 starts in 1952. He won 82 races, finished second 46 times and was third 37 times. According to the Universal Driver Ratings System, this amounts to a .461 "in the money" percentage, which put the man from Ohio in second place, nationally behind the famous Grand Circuit driver, Wayne Curly Smart, also an Ohioan. The U.S.T.A., governing body of the harness sport, enumerates driver licenses according to the standing of the applicant in the "most wins" department. Lous license bears number seven, while he was the nations eleventh ranking driver in 1951. At every pari-mutuel meeting where the junior Huber campaigned his stable last year, he was among the five leading drivers, although he made frequent forays to compete at state fairs and in Grand Circuit races. As a matter of fact, Lou was constantly on the move throughout the entire Midwestern circuit. He finished his 1952 campaign at the famed Lexington Trots early in October and then wintered his stable in Florida. Be it just a coincidence or not, the fact remains that before Lous ace, Bomb Sight, will be seen in colors in next Fri-.- days feature event, the Gold Coast Trot, another trotter of the same 1949 crop of Bomb Sights sire, Bombs Away, has already created something of a sensation here at Maywood Park. We are referring to Castle Bomb, Roy McGregors four-year-old trotter who came with three straight victories from the new Ponce de Leon Raceway in Florida to win his next three outings at Maywood Park in a most impressive manner. Bomb Sight, however, does not need the recommendation of his relatives winning streak ; he is quite a meritorious horse himself. Lets have a look at his accomplishments during his first two seasons. The handy, well-conformed trotter was a winner at first asking in his two-year-old form at Lebanon Raceway on May 26, 1951. From there he went on to win seven races in a row to conclude his juvenile campaign with eight wins and three seconds from a total of 11 starts. His owner, Alvin A Gould of Cincinnati, Ohio, may since have regretted a thousand times that he had failed to stake the colt in 1952s rich fixtures like the Hambletonian and the Kentucky Futurity, for Bomb Sight surpassed the fondest expectations of his owner, as well Lou Huber, Jr., his trainer, had for him. Lebanon Raceway was again the starting point for Bomb Sights 1952 campaign and, as in the previous year, his first start was a victory and a new record for the glib-gaited trotter as well, namely a mile in 2:08%. Hubers stable then moved to the Fairgrounds in Louisville and it was there that Bomb Sight suffered a _. slight setback by finishing fourth. Before his next engagement, Lou brought him then to what is known all over the world as the fastest trotting track, the famed Red Mile in Lexington, Ky., to test his speed capabilities. Bomb Sight responded with a mile in 2:04*6, which made him one of the nations fastest three-year-old trotters. What followed from that afternoon in late June until early in September is almost without comparison in the harness racing annals of the eventful year of 1952. Bomb Sight, with Lou Huber, Jr. in the sulky, went without defeat in 11 consecutive races. First, he took revenge in Louisville, winning three races in 2:06I/5, 2:07V5 and 2:073/5, respectively. His next engagements, at Hilliard Raceway, Ohio, saw him victorious in 2:09%. After that followed Wapakoneta, Ohio, with two winning efforts in 2:11 and 2:09%. Troy, Ohio, was scene of his next victories with miles ||6% and 2:10ys. At Greenville. Ohio, ■ Sight defeated his field in the ex-m, I time of 2:06. To appreciate this ■nore fully it may be remarked that, on the same afternoon, one of the nations leading older pacers, Red Sails, won his race over the same track in 2:05%. From Greenville, Huber, Jr., sent his charge to Columbus, Ohio, where Bomb Sight scored his proudest triumph in winning the ,000 Governors Cup in two straight heats, which were timed in 2:065 and 2:06%. The following week saw Bomb Sight at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. It was Almira Hanover, a four - year - old trotter driven by Frank Ervin, the famed trainer of Good Time, that interrupted Bomb Sights victory chain, although none of the others in that race could see him. Bomb Sight came out of this Grand Circuit encounter none the worse, however, and only six days later he was a double winner at Carthage, Ohio, in 2:06% and 2:06%. Although he could not win his next two races at Delaware, Ohio, he finished in the money both trips and had the satisfaction of having beaten Almira Hanover both times. In his last engagement of the year at Lexington, Bomb Sight again met older opponents and finished 4-5 in the two heats won by Nancy Song in 2:04% and 2:03. He had lost none of his zip, however, because the very next day Huber brought him out for another time trial and Bomb Sight trotted to a new personal record with a mile in 2:03%, the fractions being :31, 1:01%, and 1:31%. After that he was retired to winter quarters with earnings of ,787 for the year. His lifetime record now reads as follows: 32 starts, 22 wins, six seconds and one third, with total earnings of ,689. The colt is extensively staked in May-wood Parks better trotting races, and with the expert handling of Huber, Jr., Bomb Sight might easily wind up as the money-winningest trotter in this part of the country.
