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i Fanfare Is Topweighted At 122 for Longacres Mile Imposts Scale Down to 100 for 0,000 Stake on August 30 LONGACRES, Seattle, Wash., Aug. 19. Fanfare has been assigned high weight of 122 pounds for the eighteenth running of the 0,000 added Longacres Mile on Sunday, August 30. Racing secretary Man-nie Keller scaled the weights down to 100 pounds for the 33 nominees. There were 32 original nominations, with two supplementary nominees, Mac and Irenes Angela Actium has been Ueclared from the. northwest classic. With the exception of Mac, who. drew 121 pounds, Fanfare must give considerable weight to the remainder of the field. Next highweight is Ocean Mist, winner of. the B. C. Championship at Lansdowne Park this summer, who is assigned 114 pounds. It is the same weight he carried in setting a new track recordfor one and three-sixteenths miles in the British Columbia fixture. Bracketed at 113 pounds are Moby Dick, pre-race choice for next Sundays derby, Diemaker, which equalled the Longacres six furlong track record of 1:09 in the Spokane Handicap, and Easter Time, winner of five straight races at Lansdowne Park this summer. . . Fanfare has won two handicaps in as many outings this season. His last start was in the Independence Day Handicap on July 4. The Elttaes Farm runner was beaten, a neck by Eddies Boy in last years renewal of the Mile. Fanfare had 117, Eddies Boy, 119. Weights for the 1953 Longacres Mile follow: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Fanfare 122 Ky.Lea 109 Mac 121 Bomb Special 108 Ocean Mist 114 Sir Clipper 108 Moby Dick 113 Royal Rounder 108 Diemaker 113 Tuffys Rival 108 Easter Time 113 Whang Bang 107 Akimbo 112 ROverBill 107 First Repeater 112 Dark Damsel 107 "My Boy Bobby 111 Fighting Jane 107 Jersey Rebel 111 Riskachance 106 Better Wave 110 Marvern 105 Grey Spook 110 Flag Bonnet 104 Irenes Angel 110 Magic Note 102 Mad Moment 110 Marginal 100 Ocean Bridge 110 MissHimel 100 New Miracle 110 Sanew 100 Abdullah 109 Declared: Actium.
