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Twelve Meet at Beulah In Governors Handicap Ground Fog, Alfred Boulder and Jr. Ireland Appear as Top Foes By R. E. HURLEY Staff Correspondent BEULAH PARK, Grove City, Ohio, May 22. — The fourteenth running of the Governors Handicap, which has been won in former years by such Ohio stars as Harry-Lou and South Dakota, has drawn a stellar field of 12 handicap racers to compete for the ,000 purse and the trophy to be presented by the Governors representative, Lieut. Governor Brown. There are two couplings in the 12-horse field with the J. and S. Hanover Stable sending out Galway Boy and Our Cindy and the Sun View Stable coupling Ground Fog and Lees Highpep in an effort to strengthen their chances in the mile and a sixteenth test. High weighted under 118 pounds will be Ground Fog, closely followed at 117 by Boschult and Holthus Alfred Boulder, then C. Deans Jr. Ireland at 115. These three highweights will be opposed by Slip o Ned, Honest Isam, Teddys Toy, Char Boots, Debdeb and Fairiam. Alfred Boulder and Ground Fog met in an allowance race earlier in the week with the gray son of Lovely Night — Dewey Dawn finishing slightly in front of Alfred Boulder who faltered in the closing strides. The pair were both making their first start over the Beulah strip and should show better off that effort. Ground Fog has been a winner at Bowie and Florida this season and would like to start in on the Ohio championship with a win in the Governors Handicap. Alfred Boulder was one of the best horses at the recently-concluded Fort Miami meeting and his young trainer, Bob Holthus, has the gelded son of Alfred the Great — Alva Khan in the best condition of his life. Jr. Ireland gets in at 115 and has a sparkling victory earlier in the meeting to show that he deserves such treatment. The Ohio-bred son of Dispose — Lets Go would be the natural favorite of the local fans and will be upholding the honor of the entire state in the handicap. Of the lightweights, Fairiam, who just arrived from Louisville, and Honest Isam, who scored at Toledo, are the most probable upsetters, with Galway Boy, of the Hanover entry, a distinct threat.
