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Six in Lexington Handicap at Downs f Inseparable Carries 122-Pound Impost Veteran Hasty House Racer Must Give Sunny Dale Six, The Gink Eight Over Route CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 14. — Hasty House Farms stakes-winning Inseparable, an eight-year-old Unbreakable-sired gelding, will spot five rivals weight here tomorrow afternoon when he shoulders the top burden of 122 pounds in the mile and one-sixteenth Lexington Handicap. The Toledo, Ohio-owned campaigner, second to Royal Mustang last week in the one mile New Albany Handicap, holds a royal chance in the Lexington despite his bulky impost and he probably will have the saddle services of jockey Red Howell. Inseparable, successful in three major engagements last year, one of which was in the Chicago Handicap at Hawthorne, has been unable to visit the winners ring during the 1953 season but finished second on three occasions while engaging high class company. Inseparables morning trials have been decidedly satisfactory to his trainer, Harry Trotsek, and the Hasty House Farm veteran may take considerable beating in the Friday feature. The Lexington undoubtedly will prove one of the best middle distance attractions of the Kentucky spring season and Inseparable must turn in a sharp performance to notch a victory. Included in the overnight field are such good ones as Buddah Stables speedy Eight Thirty-sired mare, Sunny Dale, 116; Brown Hotel Stables The Gink, 114; Pollard and Harkins Our Challenge, 112; Mrs. J. P. Keezeks Abbe Sting, 112, and Thomas F. Devereux homebred Gay Hunter, pegged at 111 pounds by handicapper Lincoln G. Plaut. Seen as Principal Rivals Major competition for Inseparable in the Lexington probably will be furnished by Sunny Dale and The Gink. Sunny Dale, victress in three of seven engagements this season, beat a good field at nine furlongs over the Hialeah oval and then came back to garner a pair of stakes triumphs, registering impressively in the seven furlongs Columbiana Handicap over 14 top fillies and mares and scoring a convincing decision in the mile and one-sixteenth Suwannee River Handicap. Sunny Dale probably will be handled tomorrow by Kenneth Church. The Gink, one of the mainstays of the locally-owned Brown Hotel establishment, won an overnight event in Florida before shipping to the Downs and he finished third here May 1 in the one mile Kentucky Colonels Purse before trimming Golden Trend, Our Challenge, Gay Hunter, Bama Girl, Captain Bud, Spy Ring, and Pat-the-Pilot in the mile and one -sixteenth St. Matthews Purse on May 12. The Gink, a five-year-old gelded son of Pictor and Ishot, completed his latter conquest in 1:45% under the same weight assignment he is slated to take up in the Lexington. Jockey Darrell Madden may accept the amount on The Gink in tomorrows head-liner.
