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First Blue Gunner Lad Match Speed at Omaha OmahaTwo Two AkSarBen Governors Purse Favorites Coming Off Victories VictoriesBy By ART KENNEDY KENNEDYStaff Staff Correspondent CorrespondentAKSARBEN AKSARBEN Omaha Nebr June 5 It will be double feature day at AkSarBen tomorrow On a card which has distance events in monopoly the headlined AkSar Ben Governors Purse is buttressed by a secondary feature titled the Gallant Fox Purse Both are for threeyearolds and upward and at the one mile and 70 yards route Three more distance events on the eightrace program should give Omahas Saturday racegoers ample opportunity to see the fields break in front of the grand ¬ stand standThe The headliner will bring together two of the best horses on the grounds in Loveland Stables First Blue who staged an upset victory over Butch K oh Wednesday and D T Crabtrees homebred son of Cannons Roar Gunner Lad The latter a three yearold theoretically will be up against it But his record of two for two at this meet ¬ ing cannot have failed to impress the cus ¬ tomers Both victories were at the six furlong distance and his record tallying two earlier truimphs in Ohio fails to reveal whether the colt can go a route The fact that he is from a mare by the distance horse Vito may prove significant significantFirst First Blue will appeal to the more ortho ¬ dox form students as the solid horse off his winning race at a mile and onesix ¬ teenth and the fact that he is a fiveyear old This early in the season the seniors have it on the sophomores strict followers of the scale of weights will affirm Busy Fox from the stable of Miss Alice Likins Oklahoma sportswoman seems a logical choice for show honors although a slight improvement off most recent efforts would move this one right into top contention contentionGarrymark Garrymark Quick Tulip and Shikar com ¬ prise the balance of a field which numeri ¬ cally small should turn in one of the big best races of the meeting meetingStep Step Alone yesterdays feature winner made the stop watch brigade blink as he tiptoed the entire mile and 70 yards of the Even Song Purse in front while setting a blistering pace that had his opposition dizzy He furnished an upset which paid off at the rate of 2940 for 2 The favored Knee Hi was outrun the early part and though turning on a rally in the final stages his effort was too little and too late First Blue and Gunner Lad Test Speed at AkSarBen AkSarBenContinued Continued from Page Three Threebringing bringing him on better than a valiant second secondTwilight Twilight customers who look forward each weekto the 330 post time patronized the Omaha racing plant yesterday to the number of 8933 and wagered 409891 on the eight races Both figures were excess of those tallied for the same period last season
