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Nebraska Breeders Special Run Today Prince Villon Seeks Third Score of Ak-Sar-Ben Meet; , Lee Nor, Proud Dr. Riyals By ART KENNEDY Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 29. Ak-Sar-Ben enters the home stretch of its 35-day meeting tomorrow. The current session will terminate next Saturday, July 4 and is likely to go down in the records as the most sucessful from all standpoints in the history of Omahas non-profit meeting. During the week ahead, the Ak-Sar-Ben Juvenile Stakes and the Omaha Handicap, both with ,000 added, will be contested on Wednesday and Friday, respectively. The Juvenile, as the name implies, is for two-year-olds, at five furlongs. The Omaha, at six furlongs, named for the "Triple Crown" winner of 1935, who now stands at stud, available to Nebraska breeders on the Nebraska City farm of racing commissioner Grove Porter, will be run for the second time. Omaha, himself, was on hand for its inaugural last year and registered equine approval of the spectacle by rolling in the sand of the winners circle. On Saturday, the third running of the Ak-Sar-Ben Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, one mile and one-sixteenth will ring down the curtain on the meetings stakes schedule. It is possible that one or more outlanders may ship in to swell the field to capacity, a dozen having been nominated for the 10-grander before closing date. Another Meeting Likely Regardless of whoever else may accept the issue after weights are posted tomorrow, local racegoers are almost certain to witness another meeting between Butch K. and Gunner Lad, the phenomenal three-year-old son of Cannons Roar, who conceded six pounds scale weight to the former and beat him decisively in the Bran-deis Memorial. It remains to be seen whether or not the handicapper will reckon the adjustment needed to bring these top sawyers together. Both the Juvenile and the Omaha have been well patronized and are certain of full fields. The two-year-old event closed on Friday with 26 nominations and only this morning two invaders registered with the secretarys office, shipped in from St. Louis to fill their engagements in it. They are Donald Sea and Flitting Rod, owned by F: G. DeMary of Orange, Texas, and trained by Gene Duhon. Jockey Melvin Duhon, brother of the trainer, is expected to arrive in time to ride one of the DeMary entry. On tomorrows Ladies Day card twin attractions are carded the Nebraska Breeders Special, ,000 added, three-year-olds, a mile and one-sixteenth and the Bull Lea, an allowance event for four-year-olds and upward, a mile and one-sixteenth with a ,000 purse. The Breeders Special will make its bow and is intended as an annual event, one of Ak-Sar-Bens gestures of encouragement to Nebraskans who are blazing the way for another industry in the Cornhusker State, the production of the thoroughbred. It was closed with 12 entries representing 10 ownerships. There had been 41 nominations for it. Second Last Out Prince Villon, twice winner here and second in his last appearance, a six furlong effort in the mud in which he was bested by Magic City and from which he was claimed by Mrs. E. Beezley, seems the logical selection and the one most apt to draw the bulk of public support. His opposition figures among several who can be dangerous, two of them also winners here. Lee Mor has scored on two occasions, the latest a week ago when he beat Proud Dr. a nose with the latter, another to be reckoned with tomorrow, coming from far out of it. Laura Red was a winner on June 19 and has several races behind that one to recommend her. None of these have tallied at the distance of the Special. In the Bull Lea, an open contest is assured, with all but one of its seven entrants having visited the winners circle here one or more times. Pintail Sprig became lost in the slop behind Open Heir following Saturdays freak storm but came up to that race with two in a row to his credit. Ab-botsford scored at first asking for his new owner, C. L. Forney last Wednesday. Knee Hi in five starts finished no worse than fourth and has two wins and two seconds to his credit. Of the others, only Safe Arrival has failed to give a good account of himself in current competition and should Continued on Page Forty-Eight W. GOADBY LOEW Owner of Case Goods, winner of the Astoria Stakes at Aqueduct. Nebraska Breeders Special Draws Twelve at Omaha Continued from Page Fhe he be approaching his form of anotker season, could be dangerous. An enthusiastic if rainswept crowd of 13,130 racing fans witnessed Saturdays excellent program and wagered 26,196 during an afternoon of freakish and squally weather. Just before the start of the third race, the day which had dawned fair and cloudless belied its early promise and turned dark with storm clouds. The start was effected in a veritable deluge and as the field traversed the backstretch it disappeared to view, obscured by the wall of water. It did not become visible again until some yards from the finish line and the huddled crowds beneath the stands and in its upper aisles had to depend on the lighted result board to learn the outcome. A popular victory was scored by Auntie, who was making her third start at this meeting and registering her third triumph. She had just been returned from Detroit, where she was unsuccessful in the Rose Leaves Stakes. Her liking for the Omaha oval was reaffirmed when she skipped five furlongs through the slop to win going away in :59, returning a .40 mutuel. Gunner Lad proved even better than the handicapper had indicated while taking the featured George Brandeis Memorial Handicap in easy fashion from Butch K. The three-year-old had been assigned three pounds above the scale weight in the mile and one-sixteenth affair, the only entrant so penalized. -
