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; . t I a * s s y •j g Auntie Topweight, t Choice at Omaha Barrett Mare Meets Sextet In Ak-Sar-Bens Princess 5 Handicap; Butch K. Threat 5 By ART KENNEDY Staff Correspondent C AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., May 26. — 2 The Ak-Sar-Ben Princess Handicap, first G race of its type to fill at Omahas current -r session, will be the headliner at the Omaha C track tomorrow. Involving, as did the Ak- | Sar-Ben Council Purse, ceremonies to in- elude dignitaries of the Knights of Ak-Sar- Ben, a presentation to the winner of the n ,000 added feature will be made by Ak- C Sar-Ben princesses. 1 Topweighted and likely to be the favor- u ite is S. S. Barretts consistent Time Signal homebred, Auntie, with an impost of 123 . pounds. * Auntie will be having another try at the 3 Ak-Sar-Ben Princess Handicap, a race in 5 which she figured prominently last year " but couldnt win although finishing in the £ money. She will be carrying four more * pounds tomorrow than the scale weight -under which she triumphed in the Inaugural J on opening day. But she has outgamed the ■ handicapper on other occasions, notably here last season when she won the George Brandeis Memorial Handicap. Earlier this year she was a winner at Santa Anita. Her appearance last week and manner of victory is certain to gain her the bulk of public support in the mutuels. Facing Old Rivals Four of those scheduled to take the track against her tomorrow did so in last weeks opening day feature: J. W. Coopers Undone, Careyland Ranchs Hairbow, Alice Likens Royals Last and G. and U. Shultzs Butch K. Butch K., the likely second choice in to-I morrows main event, has been assigned the same poundage he carried when third in the Inaugural by handicapper Linus Pierce. Royals Last drops two pounds, Un- done peels four and Hairbow will pack five additional over his Ak-Sar-Ben seasonal bow. The remainder of the field includes dolden Pine Stables Oats, a Brookmeade alumnus by Bimelech who has traveled in select company on the West Coast prior to shipping here although failing to score. His most recent victory was tallied during the previous racing season, Free Soul, a seven-year-old by Free France will bear the racing silks of M. H. Robineau, president of Colorados Centen-i nial Race Track. The chestnut gelding has started five times this year at Santa Anita but showed no special liking for the Cali-_ fornia racing strip, failing to be in the money there. His tally last season was im-t pressive, with 12 out of 20 starts landing him in the money. Six of these were winning efforts.
