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Ascot Registers Gains Over 1952 1952Handle Handle Averages 240819 And Attendance 4241 for Recent 44Day Session SessionAscot Ascot Park the threequarters mile course at Cuynhoga Falls Ohio this season showed good gains in daily average attend ¬ ance and parimutuel handle over its cor ¬ responding 44day meeting last year yearThis This years Ascot spring session was from April 17 to June 6 while the 1952 meeting was from June 3 to July 23 23A A total of 186615 fans filed through the Ascot gates this year for a daily average of 4241 Last year the total attendance was 174991 and the average 3977 In 1951 only 155837 patrons attended the 43day meeting for a daily mean of 3624 3624This This seasons patronage poured 10596 024 through the sellers windows for a daily average of 240819 In 1952 these figures were 9836714 and 223562 respectively in 1951 they were respective 6468977 and 150441 totals totalsSpy Spy Ring captured the lone feature event run during the meeting the Ascot Gold Cup and his victory was worth 7700 which made him the top money winning thoroughbred at the Buckeye plant Bullet Cee nosed out Bull Skin for runnerup earning laurels 4150 to 4050 4050Maxwells Maxwells Top Owners Mr and Mrs P Maxwell emerged the leading moneywinning owners with a bankroll of 20775 almost double the sum amassed by Mrs R E House whose charges brought home 10950 The Max ¬ wells boasted 21 victories a like number of seconds and 13 show spots spotsMaxwells Maxwells 21 saddling successes gave him training honors his nearest competitor K McLaughlin having 13 for second place placeHeading Heading the jockey race was Eddie Plesa with 60 triumphs in 27S mounts for a percentage of 22 N Hart finished as runnerup with 41 victories in 219 attempts for a mark of 19 S Austin compiled the best percentage 26 but he rode in only 47 races getting an even dozen of his mounts to the wire first firstHorsemen Horsemen received an overall net distri ¬ bution of 424400 for a daily average of 964545 964545The The percentage of whining favorites was slightly below normal 120 first choices clicking in the 386 races run for a mark of 31 Second choices triumphed on 82 occa ¬ sions while winning outsiders numbered ft5 There were 10 victors at oddson Continued on Page Forty Ascot Park Meeting Shows Gains Over 52 52Average Average Handle of 24081 9 Attendance of 4241 Recorded RecordedContinued Continued from Page Five Fiveagainst against five that failed at less than even money moneyOne One deadheat for first place was re ¬ corded cordedComplete Complete Ascot Park statistics statisticsApril DaysNet April 17 to June 44 Days Net distribution 424400 424400Daily Daily average net distribution 964545 964545Attendance Attendance 186615 186615Daily Daily average attendance 4241 4241Mutuel Mutuel handle 10596024 10596024Daily Daily average mutuei handle 240819 240819Leading Leading MoneyWinning Owners OwnersOwner Owner 1st 2nd 3rd Won WonMaxwell Maxwell Mr Mrs 21 21 13 20775 House Mrs B E 12 8 7 10950 Simpson H M 8 7 3 7975 7975Wynkoop Wynkoop J K 945 5 7750 Collins Mr Mrs 1 1Hadlock 0 7700 Hadlock C E 5 5Ashby 9 5500 Ashby F M 2 2Howard 6 5425 Howard B C 5 5Watkins 2 4525 Watkins G B 5 5Surber 3 4475 Surber John 4 1 4275 Leading MoneyWinning Horses HorsesHorse Horse 1st 2nd 3rd Won WonSpy Spy Bing 100 7700 7700Bullet Bullet Gee 102 4150 4150Bull Bull Skin 2 0 0 4050 4050MorSnoozey MorSnoozey 3 11 3950 3950Dr Dr Pentick 5 1 1 3875 3875Cockpit Cockpit 430 3800 3800Blacktype Blacktype Oil 3300 3300Boulevardier Boulevardier 4 11 3275 3275Nassoon Nassoon 412 3150 3150Gerties Gerties Last 402 3050 3050Leading JockeysJockey Leading Jockeys Jockey Mts 1st 2nd 3rd Unp PC PCPlesaE PlesaE 279 60 49 49 121 22 22Hart Hart N 219 41 31 20 127 19 19KratzF KratzF 127 19 29 14 65 15 15GriffithK GriffithK 112 18 14 15 65 16 16HightshoeB HightshoeB L 161 18 9 17 117 11 11Downs Downs W 113 17 10 16 70 15 15Thornburg Thornburg B 158 16 14 23 105 10 10Parker Parker G 83 14 19 14 36 17 17BiveraL BiveraL 103 14 28 10 51 13 13Austin Austin S 47 12 4 6 29 26 26Leading Leading Trainers TrainersTrainer Trainer Wins Trainer Wins WinsMaxwell Maxwell P 21 Simpson J P 9 9McLaughlin McLaughlin K 13 Smith WW 8 8House House BE 12 Cranf ord C A 7 7Herring Herring BH 11 Howard BC 7 7Bell Bell W P 9 OsborneG 7 Price JD 9 9Following Following is the feature race that was decided decidedFeature Feature Date Winner Value ValueAscot Ascot Gold Cup Juno 6 Spy Bing 7700 7700The The percentage of winning favorites was below normal as shown in the subjoined tabulationNumber tabulation Number of races 386 386Winning Winning favorites 120 120Winning Winning second choices 82 82Winning Winning outsiders x 185 185Winners Winners at oddson 10 10Defeated Defeated at oddson 5 5Percentage Percentage of winning favorites 31 31Dead Dead heats l for win
