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! I ! | | ! j I ! t j | j I I ! j j j I j i j I I Seven Oppose Gunner Lad In Fort Miami Offerina Crabtree Runner Making First Start Since Inaugural Score FORT MIAMI, Maumee. Ohio, May 4. — -The best sprint race of the current meeting has been carded for tomorrows program with Mrs. D. T. Crabtree s Gunner Lad slated to oppose seven others in the Sandusky Purse at five furlongs. It will be the first start for the three-year-old son of *, Cannons Roar — Martha Vito since he triumphed over older horses in the Inaugural j Handicap on opening day at Fort Miami. That victory was the initial outing for -1 the Crabtree racer who impresses many local horsemen as a good colt. He will be -I given more opportunities against his own age group later this month when his owner ships to Omaha but must compete against older horses at this meeting. The two matrons, Cavalier Trim and Fabulous South, are taken as the most likely to teach Gunner Lad a little manners, i Cavalier Trim was defeated by the three -year-old in the Inaugural Handicap then came back to be second in a sprint race last week. She was the victim of a poor ride in that start and with the capable ap- k prentice Gene Martin handling her tomor-| row that possibility is less likely to occur. r Fabulous South appeared a very short horse in her 1953 debut in which she dis-| appointed at odds-on after showing some of her great speed. Her racing record belies that attempt and she will be a solid choice of many of the Ohioans who remember A her 10 triumphs in 1952. J Sir Dakota, Lovers Van, Miss Curling. Choice Bits and Boy Blue complete the field in the Sandusky with the first mentioned a real "dark horse." His connections have been sending the horse through some blazing morning trials and are not afraid of the credentials of even Gunner Lad.
