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Veteran Roughn Ready Seeks Ak-Sar-Ben Test Invader From Chicago Competes With Pine River and Ten Others By ART KENNEDY Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., May 21.— The FJag Lieutenant Purse featured on Ak-Sar-Bens eight-race card tomorrow, is named in salute to a good race horse who made turf history of a sort, back in the mid-twenties. While he was not one who accounted for classics by the dozen, he was a jewel of consistency and as such, his memory has been honored at Ak-Sar-Ben annually by the naming of a feature race for him. The current edition, which has been conditioned for three-year-olds and upward at a mile and 70 yards, boasts a full field of an even dozen. Coming from four points of the compass, the entrants include a majority of horses already seasoned by racing on other fronts. A few will be making initial apperances for the year. A veteran campaigner who will likely engage public interest is B. Fogelsons Roughn Ready. This 10-year-old Alibhai gelding has raced through the Midwest, chalking up a workmanlike record each year. His recent form at Sportsmans Park in Chicago indicates that age hasnt dulled his winning ways. He scored twice in four starts there and was only once out of the money. Pine River, who races for Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Almack, is a speedy router and will be highly regarded by horsemen and others who were on the Arizona front this past winter. He was a winner there in near track-record time on two occasions. Tipster is another who comes from a Chicago campaign at Sportsmans Park and met mishap in his latest start, fell and lost his rider. He ran second at Oaklawn during that meeting. Last season, he won five races and was in the money in seven of his 19 starts. He races in the colors of Miss Alice Likens of Oklahoma City. Abbotsford, second on opening day here; Bull Bat and Newton Airds will have the advantage of a race over Ak-Sar-Bens oval, the latter starting back only 48 hours after his ilocal debut. He raced yesterday, but failed to offer much contention in the yeature race then. He won at Oaklawn this year. Abbotsford, another who raced on opening day and finished a fast-closing second, will be making his first start for his new owner, C. J. Carter, who claimed him then from Mrs. Tennant. The second day of Nebraska racing showed the normal drop in both attendance and mutuel handle customarily attendant on days after inaugurals. But both figures were satisfactorily above the same period last year.
