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Fighting Devil in Quest Of Third Dade Park Win AH But One of Her Six Rivals Today Haye Also Won at Meet By J. J. HAHN Staff Correspondent DADE PARK, Henderson, Ky., Aug. 18. Tomorrow will be the third mid-week program of the current 29-day meeting and heading the seven-race program is the sixth race, an allowance affair at one mile, which attracted seven entrants and all with one exception have been successful during the first 12 days of the session. As a whole, the racing menu is made up more or less of quantity and not the fine programs staged the past two Wednesdays when racing secretary L. H. Van Zandt brought together many good races for the better grade runners. There were several races in the book of conditions, which failed to fill and for that reason Van Zandt had to call on he cheaper grade horses to fill his seven races. Most of the events are atsix furlongs and in addition to the feature the nightcap is the only other to be run over a route of ground. It is to be staged at the popular one mile and one-eighth distance. These are the favorite events here since they are started in front of the grandstand.- Tied with several others as double winners at the meeting, S. Kiilpatricks Fighting ! Devil will be trying to run up another score and should she be successful will be the only triple winner at this meeting. Scheduled to go postward against the hard-knocking Fighting Step mare are the winners Vesta F., Come Early, Victory Play, Cousin Clara and My Future. The only non-winner entered here is Evenesta. Fighting Devil scored her last victory here on August 11 and won in a driving finish from Once More and Evenesta, but she probably was not the best horse that day as the reinsman on Evenesta lost his stirrup irons at the head of the stretch and was of little help to his mount during the stretch run. Despite the unfortunate mishap, Evenesta was beaten less than a length. Vesta F. defeated a band of non-winners when she won here last week, while Come Early hung it on Gino Gray and My Future in scoring his victory. The game old mare, Victory Play, won a sprint, but came back over a distance of ground and evidently found the route too much for her aching underpinning. Cousin Clara showed her good form several days ago in taking the measure of the highly-regarded Orphan Doc, winning by three lengths. Victory Play was a pair of lengths to the rear of the second horse. My Future won at one mile and an eighth and this daughter of Jimmy Moran had to stand a long drive to stall off the rush of Kapeika after opening a three-length lead an eighth from the finish. The first five races are at six furlongs. The usual two-year-old event is absent from tomorrows program.
