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I I I 1 | i 1 1 ! j i t : ] I I i i i ; . I ■ r 5 I 5 [ Eight Sprint Performers Engaged in Euclid Purse Poised Valley Given Call Oyer Rivals in Ascot Park Offering ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, May 13. — Racing secretary Raleigh Leigh has scheduled one of the most attractive programs of the current meeting for tomorrow afternoon. The bill will be headlined by the Euclid Purse at four* and a half furlongs and it has drawn a field of eight speedsters. Several newcomers to Ascot Park this season, Cruel Sea, Tetratomic, Time Worker, and Bill Skin were named overnight to meet the following regulars; Scrub, Gay Larkspur, Ball the Jack, and Poised Valley. The latter will run as part of the W. W. Smith-trainer entry along with Tetratomic. Poised Valley, fresh from winning two straight decisions at this distance, must be accorded a slight edge over the very consistent Scrub. Poised Valley has once again hit her winning stride after a mishap last summer at Wheeling Downs that sidelined her for some time. Her dam is by Washoe Valley, one of the fleetest horses ever to run in this section of the country. In her last winning essay with jockey Plesa aboard, she defeated the well-regarded Roaming Oscar by three lengths while being ridden out. In her first start of the year with the same rider she was victorious over Madrid Cue by two lengths. Tetratomic, when at best, can hold his own with any horse stabled here. However, this being his first start of the meeting his stable companion must be given the prefer - ence. Scrub, owned by A. W. Messersmith, will also be seeking his third straight victory over the Ascot oval. Both his winning races however have been at a longer distance and it is problematical if he will be able to keep pace with Poised Valley in a sprint. In his last race on May 2, he was perfectly rated by jockey William Hawksworth and, after never being worse than third, came along with a fine stretch run and a length decision over Bold Arrow. That was a mile and one-sixteenth. In his first race here this spring at six and a half furlongs, he ran quite the same pattern gaining the lead just above the furlong marker and then drawing clear. Ball the Jack comes into this race fresh from a winning effort on May 11, when the Balladier filly took down honors by three parts of a length over Terrific. However, Ball the Jack, as sharp as she looked in winning, is hardly in a class with Poised Valley, Tetratomic or Scrub. Gay Larkspur has not shown too much in local races and of the newcomers not much is known except that Cruel Sea was a win- ner at Gulf stream Park.
