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Freddy Kratz Celebrates Birthday in Fitting Style Rides Four Straight Winners At Ascot Park as He Turns 33 By RONALD KRANCER Staff Correspondent ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, May 26. — Jockey Freddy Kratz celebrated I his thirty-third birthday in great style here this afternoon by piloting home four consecutive winners. He just missed a fifth by r a shadow, being nosed out in the final I jump to the wire. His winning races were j scored on War Pat in the fourth raee, , Courage Road in the fifth event and in the ; sixth race he squeezed out a nose decision i while astride Royal Knave. And he came i back to win the seventh race aboard R. R. . McClarins Conewago. Royal Knave was the first winning favorite . of the day and paid a liberal .60 in i touring the six and one-half furlongs in ! 1:22 over a fast track. Todays fast strip , was only the seventh since the meeting r started away back in April. A crowd of f 3,650 was out to witness the sport, which i was conducted under perfect weather conditions. . Idle Jane, who was ridden by Eugene % OKeefe, garnered the place award in the sixth race and was a neck in front of Lady Santo in the blanket finish. Royal Knave was never worse than i fourth in this event, while between horses 5 on the backstretch. On the far turn Kratz - took his mount to the outside where he - would have clear sailing and responding I gamely to the whip moved up very fast to engage Idle Jane and Three Sisters through i the late stretch. It was only in the final 1 jump however that the son of Knave High i got to the front to earn the decision. The winner has now started four times 3 this season and he was picking up his first victory of the season. Last season in 15 starts he was victorious on five occasions. Kratz is one of the most popular riders I in this section of the country. He usually T restricts his riding -to Ascot Park. Cran-wood. Water ford Park, Wheeling Downs 3 and Charles Town during the course of the I summer. During the winter months he can l usually be found in Camden or Aiken, South Carolina, galloping horses for one ? of the big stables.
