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——4 Bobs Ace Goes In Lombard Purse Triple Winner This Season Has Sailors Delite as Fit Foe in Sportsmans Sprint SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, 111., May 2. — Sportsmans Park enters the second full week of its regular meeting with a total pari-mutuel handle but slightly under that of last spring. This is regarded as very good when it is taken into consideration that the weather has for the most part been quite bad and the racing strip was heavy for every racing day during the past week. It is an established fact that patrons will not speculate as freely on an "off" track as they will when the strip is fast, and pari-mutuel director Robert Hart states that on the first Saturday, the heavy rain that drove the patrons to the cover of the mutuel ring caused such a congestion that more than the present difference in wagering from 1952 was "shut out" on that day. ,500 Purse in Feature The program for Monday has as the best race a seven-furlong event named the Lombard, and the following have been named for the ,500 purse: J. N. Nugents Victoria Cross, Mrs. P. E. Browns Tordar, Mrs. W. J. Nolans Frankie D., C. Abadies Sailors Delite, E. Madisons Jimmys Doll, Mrs. T. M. Pruetts Ida C, John Beals Bobs Ace, and Mrs. Delia Zadeikas So There. Bobs Ace, a six -year-old who started 32 times last year to become one of the hardiest horses on the turf, has already compiled a better record this season than in 1952. Last year, he visited the winners circle on two occasions. This year, he has won three times. The gelding clicked twice at Lincoln Downs before being shipped here, and won his first outing at this track when he defeated Jimmys Doll and others in a recent seven-furlong race. Sailors Delite is another to come through with a recent triumph here. The Grand Admiral filly beat Ida C. by six lengths last Wednesday. So There also came through with a win. trimming the heavily backed Syndicate and others while Victoria Cross won at New Orleans Pair Grounds, Tordar won at Hot Springs, and Frankie D. took two races at Sunshine Park.
