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Ambassador Handicap Draws Eight at Omaha Butch K. Looms Odds-On Choice AsTrack Stages Western Iowa Day By ART KENNEDY Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 16.— The running of the Ak-Sar-Ben Ambassador Handicap tomorrow, first of the Omaha tracks scheduled stake events will be coincident with Ak-Sar-Bens observance of Western Iowa Day. Northeast Nebraska was similarly saluted two weeks ago. Following customary procedure each of the other seven races on tomorrows card have been appropriately named for a city or a region and in one instance an organization in western Iowa. Delegations from Onawa, Oakland, Atlantic, Carroll, Deni-son and the Iowa Elks will be present to take part in the ceremonies. The Ak-Sar-Ben Ambassador Handicap is for threeTyear-olds and upward at a mile and 70 yards with an added value of ,000 and has drawn a field of eight horses to run in six interests. Five of them have met here earlier under handicap conditions and afforded Nebraska racegoers some of the most stirring contests developed during these past 21 days of racing. Topweighted with 120 pounds, two more than he shouldered a week ago when he ■stepped the same distance in 1 : 42 and won in convincing fashion, is Butch K., Oklahoma homebred who is the : tar member of the Shultz Brothers .active string. The six-year-old brown gelding by Whisk K. will be making his sixth start here with two wins, and three thirds to his credit. He looms an odds-on choice. Three who finished ahead of him on other occasions are Alice Likins Royals Last, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Robineaus Free Soul and Tioveland Stables First Blue. Royals Last was second to him last out, beaten a length and Free Soul in third spot, well beaten, after a race devoid of early pace and run exactly to the pattern which would suit Butch K., the topweight, best. Both are favored by tomorrows weight shift. First Blue came back after scoring over Free Soul and Butch K. at a mile and a sixteenth carrying 112 pounds, to finish unplaced behind the three-year-Continued on Page Forty-Four Ambassador Handicap Draws Eight at Omaha Butch K. Looms Odds-On Choice • AsTrackStages Western Iowa Day Continued from Page Three old Gunnar Lad, turning in a listless performance. Mt. Haro, another who will carry the Robineau silks in support of his stable-mate Free Soul, has a good race to his credit here, when at equal weights with Butch K. he cut out most of the pace in a race that went to the Schultz gelding and in which he finished third. He failed to run back to that showing in a subsequent effort but his record at Santa Anita last winter indicates his races here to have been below his potential. Starting in the interests of Whitten-baugh and Bamford is a brace of five-year-Old mares who have earned the step upwards they take tomorrow by virtue of recent records of speed and consistency over the Ak-Sar-Ben oval. They are Styles Dream, twice winner at the meeting and Fashion Hill who, similarly, reached the winners circle last out. Rounding out the field is another who takes an upward step in classification here, Teazle, four-year-old filly who won at this track at first asking for her owner, J. W. Cooper. Last week, under 113 pounds, she sped a mile and one-sixteenth in 1:45%, scoring by six and a half lengths. She had been claimed out of her preceding race by Cooper for ,500.
