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Two Route Events Given Top Billing at Hamilton Dusky Hill and Miss Totem Rate Call for Visits to Winners Ring By R. E. HURLEY Staff Correspondent HAMILTON, Ohio, Aug. 19. Twilight racing continues to roll merrily on its way at the Butler County Fair Grounds as a fine crowd of 4,021 spectators turned out for the second-day program at Hamilton and wagered an aggregate of 33,806 on the eight-race card. This figure exceeded the opening day play of last season and the management expects that all records will fall during the 19-day meeting which will conclude on September" 7. Claimers again dominate the card for tomorrow with two interesting route races occupying the spot of the normal feature which failed to fill sufficiently. Each section of the mile and a sixteenth route has drawn a limit field of eight runners with Otto Braschs five-year-old gelding Dusky Hill heading the field in the seventh race and J. W. Fryes Miss Totem the probable favorite in her sixth race. Dusky Hill was an eight-time winner during the 1952 season and was just coming to racing trim at the close of the late River Downs season. The Dusky Prince Bonnie Dream gelding went down to Dade Park in the waiting period prior to the Hamilton opening and lost a heart-brtaking decision at the Henderson track. Leading rider Charles Elder is scheduled to handle the Brasch racer and this pair should have little trouble with Limerick Boy, Shes Gone, Pauls Pick, Court Jester, Dark Miss, Speedy Tom or Sellator,
