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D — I D s On the Trot ! By MORRIE KURLANSKY J Joyce Hankins. Scores Third Win Daily Double Favorites Consistent £ Kennesaw Hanover in Debut Here oC MAYWOOD PARK, Maywood, 111., June ~" 18. — Kings Ale, the four-year-old pacer owned by Marino and Blackburn, is temporar- ily on the sidelines on account of a cold . . . . Joyce Hankins won her third race of the meeting, her latest victory coming Tuesday night with the Dougherty-owned trotter, Volora. Two former stakes winners with earnings of 10,000 between them bowed to the Volstadt mare, namely Moses and Joe Donlin ... A much improved horse is the six-year-old gelding, Sheldon Pointer, owned by Vir- ] ginia Herison of Chicago, and trained by — Billy Rouse. The son of Pegasus Pointer [2j has started eight times this year and won four races? getting a faster mark every time. His record is now 2:05% . . . The ad- | ditional race Tuesday, the Northern Illinois Colt Stakes, purse ,500, was somewhat less than an exciting contest. The fifth and last horse in the field, however, received 5 for a mile in 2:44. The winner, Still Better, trotted the mile in 2:16%. For five nights in succession, the Daily Double paid less than 6.00, with favorites winning the first two races on the card . . . According to owner Albert j Friess, the free-for-all pacer, Guest Star, 1 will shortly put in an appearance here. The horse is currently at his owners farm at Rice Lake, Wis. . . . Chief Brooke, the horse that broke down the other night during a warm-up mile, might be saved for another racing season, after all. On examination by the vet, it turned out that the eight-year-old gelding broke a bone in his foot and the member was put in a cast. The Minnesota-owned pacer is a winner of almost 0,000 and has a record of 2.07 on a half-mile track. A camel was a guest on Tuesday nights television show from Maywood Park. The owner of the hunched-back animal, however, tactfully declined an invitation for a match race with Gene Hayes, at present the pacing star here . . . Grandma Bur-right is very proud of the engraved stop watch presented to her by Al DeMeo, vice-president and general manager of Maywood Park . . . The three-year-old pacer, Abbe May, was put on the stewards list arid cannot start at this meeting until schooled and he shows that it will be safe to race. The horse fell the other night and her driver, Don Busse, was hurt in the spill . . . Kenneth James was suspended for four days from driving in races only for locking wheels with C. F. Rumley, up on Jerry Samson. James was up on True Vic third race June 15 . . . Philip Mulburn, Jr., also was set down for three days for causing interference with Volora, driven by Joyce Hankins in the fifth race, June 12, while driving Colby Ann. The other morning Earl Roush brought a well-filled wallet to Ted Leonard, the racing secretary. Turned out that Ray Williams lost it on the track while working out a horse . . . H. J. Van Gundy, secretary of the Illinois Harness Racing Commission, is visiting here . ,s . Clair Wolverton, the man who raced La Pa-loma 2.01%, one of the outstanding harness horses of 25 years ago, currently has two three-year-olds here in care of Stan Stucker. La Paloma not only was one of the fastest pacers of her time, but a tremendous success in the stud, being the dam of Her Ladyship, fastest female sidewheeler of all time with a record of 1:56%. Her Ladyship, in turn, is the dam of Goose Bay, crack pacer of a few years back and now in stud at Walnut Hill Farm; his oldest foals being two-year-olds of 1953. The 1949 foal of her Ladyship, Gander by Volomite, was sold for 5,000 as a yearling to Saunders Mills Stable of Toledo, while the 1950 foal of Her Ladyship was Gosling, a 5,000 yearling acquired by the Allwood Stable of Far Hill, N. J. Total purse distribution for tomorrow nights program amounts to 2,270, a season record disbursement for the River Road establishment. Tomorrows feature will be the Charles Coburn Pace Stake, . value ,420, a class 17 event, which will bring out such good horses as Gay Order, racing as an entry with Peggy Barnes for trainer Ralph Ayou; Charleen Hanover, King Gaines, Billy Wasson, Roberta Darn-ley, Nancy Woollen, Lorraines Boy, Phil Bob, Kennesaw Hanover and Dorothy Mc-Spencer. In Kennesaw Hanover, an interesting newcomer will make his Maywood Park bow. The Knight Dream gelding won ten races last year as a two-year-old and acquired a record of 2:05% in a time trial at Lexington. Last week, Edgar Leonard, his trainer, started him at Hazel Park, Detroit, but Kennesaw made a break before the start and finished last in his first outing of the year. Kennesaw Hanover will start from the No. 9 post and will be coupled with Dorothy McSpencer and Phil Bob in the mutuel field. The Coburn Pace, in a way, may decide who the best four-year-old pacer here is, since Gay Order, King Gaines, Lorraines Boy and Phil Bob are of that age. Free - for - all trotters will vie for a ,000 purse for the first time since purses were upped last Monday and Last Call may make amends for his disappointing: showing: last week. He meets the recent winners, Royal Vickie and Mary Hall, while Spud Hart, Billy Cor-bitt and Little Steve cannot be overlooked. In tomorrow nights first race, fans will get acquainted with one of the first foals sired by the unforgettable Jimmy Creed, who set a world record for 1 1-16 miles at Maywood Park in 1948. The youngster is Dell Creed, a chestnut filly out of Sabra, also the dam of the good trotter, Miss Pemberton, and Adio Abe, who paced the mile in 1:59% last year as a three-year-old. Dell Creed is bred and owned by William Hufford of Lebanon, Ohio, and her trainer is Roy Riegle. The filly already has started three times this year at Hazel Park and was never worse than third. She is the only two-year-old in tomorrow nights race. Chicago-owned horses won two races last Saturday night at Roosevelt Raceway and both were driven by Harry Fitzpatrick, the noted trainer from Springfield, HI. Gene Jester, owned by Paul Wixom and George Lutz of Chicago, won a ,500 pace in 2:06, while Prince Terry, from the Wixom stable, garnered a similar event in 2:07.
