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- I — ■ =- "J mi? "URs* 5 m mm *| On the Trot II By MORRIE KURLANSKY I Harry Beissinger Stable on Hand i Had Great Success Here Last Year 5 Other Arrivals for Maywood Meet 10 4 — Three more contending stables have 44. — Three more contending stables have checked in at Maywood Park or are expected to arrive mo- mentarily. Howard Beissinger s menage bedded down at Aurora and the Ohio reins-man will van his charges over for their races. Fans may well remember the spectacular "catch drive" of Howard Beissingers in the 5,000 Sportsmans Park Pacing Derby behind the ec Rhode Island-owned sidewheeler, Choice Hanover. In that race, -J Red Sails, off his previous excellent races, was the red hot favorite and was backed down to odds-on favoritism. The son of Dean Hanover, however, was in the form of his life, and captured both heats, getting the lead right at the start, never to be headed. While the mile heat was paced in 2:04*5, a record for the 52 Sportsmans Park meeting, Howard missed the worlds record for the 1 1-16 miles distance in the second heat by a mere one-fifth of a second with the fleet pacer. Although this victory at the Cicero half-miler was Beissingers best so far in a comparatively short career, his successes last year with a stable mainly composed of three-year-olds gained him a top position among the leading trainers not only at Chicagoland harness tracks, but also at Fairgrounds Louisville and Lebanon Raceway, Ohio. Beissinger wintered his stable in Florida, and, in Fritz, Lorraines Boy, Argo Yolo and Argo Scot, he seems to have a quartet of strong contenders for Maywood Park laurels. Fritz by Bombs Away won seven of his 17 races in 1952; Lorraines Boy by Mc I Win was victorious in six races and pegged his record in a time trial at Lexington, Ky., with Edgar Leonard in the sulky, at 2:06%. While both Fritz and Lorraines Boy race on the lateral gait, Argo Scot and Argo Yolo are trotters, the first one by Scotland and the latter by Yolomite, and either one was a frequent winner last year. In addition to this foursome, Howard Beissinger has five more younger horses in his care, which, if breeding means anything, will show to advantage in forthcoming races at Maywood Park. From Lexington, Ky., the stable owned by Frank Marino, Chicago, 111., arrived last Thursday and received stalls in one of the three new barns at present being erected across the driveway opposite the clubhouse. The horses are trained by Bill and Verna Gillespie and will be driven in their races by Red Ross. The contingent is made of Buckie B., one of the better class trotters in Chicago last year; Kahoka Bud, Kings Ale, Bill Keating, Baker Patch, and the two-year-old, Scatter McDuff. Most promising campaigner of the Marino outfit is the now four-year-old Kings Ale by Kings Counsel, who looks a lot like his famous relative, Solicitor 1:57%. Kings Ale was sold by Howard Beissinger to his present owner, who expects a great deal from this well-mannered and slick gaited performer and made him eligible for the 5,000 Golden West Pace at Hollywood Park, Calif., this coming fall. The youngster in the Marino stable, Scatter McDuff, by the way, is out of Daisy Noon, a 10-year-old trotting mare, who currently also races here at Maywood Park in the stable of her owner, Tom Mills. Word came from Salem, III., that the force of Herman Graham in charge of trainer Jack Beasley is on its way to Gene Hayes, Jochovolo, Scarlet Scourge, -Gene Hayes, Jochovolo, scarlet Scourge, Nancy Woollen, Prince Arab, and Peter Wilmont. The start performer in the Graham stable is Gene Hayes 2:02% by Dominion Grattan, a winner of nine races last year at Santa Anita, Louisville and Maywood Park. His stretch battles with Chief Strong, Doctor Cooper, Red Sails and other AA class pacers were highlights of the 1952 Chicago harness racing season. Together with the good trotter, Ronald Scot, Gene Hayes served in Herman Grahams Salem stud this spring and had a full book. Two members of the Graham stable are entered in Tuesday nights races, Scarlet Scourge going in the sixth race, the West Side Pace Stake for ,351.50, and Nancy Woollen in the seventh race, a class CC pace. Joyce and Jack Hankins arrived with the horses owned by Paul S. Dougherty, La Grange, 111., who led all owners racing at the harness tracks in the Chicago area in 1952. The principal earner in the Dougherty stable was Johnny Brown. The giant £j trotter, however, was not sent to Maywood Park but to Hazel Park, Detroit, where he will campaign this summer in Jimmy Flemings stable. Dougherty refused two offers of 0,000 each for his 10-year-old gelding, his price being 5,000. While Chicago trotting fans will not see Johnny Brown in action here, Mary Hall, the six-year-old full sister of Johnny and Try Guy, an as yet unraced three-year-old trotter also by Tryax out of Katherine Hall will try to emulate the feats of their older brother. Others in the stable are the well-known Click, Volora, and Guy Gallon, while the rest of Doughertys horses are untried two-year-olds with first class breeding recommendations. Frank Pennine paddock judge here since the opening of Maywood Park in 1946 and also working in an official capacity at Chicago Downs and at the runners meeting at Fair Grounds, New Orleans, employs two interesting young men as his assistants. One is R. L. Ved-der, former rider of such outstanding horses as Alsab, whom he rode during its two-year-old form, Whirlaway and Gal-lahadion. Vedder is a freelance exercise rider at Sportsmans Park, while E. T. Toler, his Maywood Park associate, gallops exclusively the horses of W. H. Bishop at Sportsmans Park. The Hayes Fair Acres Farm. Du Quoin, 111., owned by the chairman of the Illinois Harness Racing Commission, acquired Mamies Baby, dam of Miss Mamie 1:59%, Lsuty B. 2:00Vi, etc., from the dispersal sale of the late Paul J. Murphy for ,950. Mamies Baby, who had a 10-day-old colt by Eddie Havens at her side, will probably breed to Hayes stallion. Dudley Hanover.
