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On the Trot By MORRIE KURLANSKY I Card Great Midwest Trot Tonight Jochovolo Outstanding Candidate Parkinson Encounters Bad Luck MAYWOOD PARK, Maywood, 111., Aug. 25. The Great Midwest Trot, annual stakes Qvent of the Aurora Downs meeting, is scheduled for Wednes1 day night and this third renewal drew seven sophomore trotters, including an entry of E. C. Moriartys Wichita, Kan., stable, whose Jesse Chisholm and Helen Flynn won the race in 1950 and 1952, respectively. The outstanding candidate this year seems to be Herman Grahams Salem. Illinois-owned Jochovolo, a half-brother to the recently retired trotting star, Moses. The brown colt by Volation Jochebed has compiled an impressive record this year starting 28 times and winning 21 dashes. From July l until August 15, Jochovolo won no less than 16 heats in a row and got a mark of 2:03 at Springfield. His 1 last engagement was the Review Futurity, also at Springfield, and he met the nations elite three-year-old trotters in that three-heat race. His best effort came in the second heat, finishing fourth behind Kim-berly Kid, Newport Star and Elby Hanover, separately timed in better than 2:02, the winner, Kimberly Kid, setting a seasons record with 2:01 flat. Aerial Gunner, a Bombs Away colt , owned by Harry Short of Columbus, was I a starter in the Hambletonian and prior to that engagement won several races at Painesville and Cleveland. Another newcomer to Chicagoland harness tracks is Maximilian, an Ohio-owned gelding by the Greyhound sire, Guy Abbey, and a winner in good time at Hazel Park and Northville Downs in Detroit. Against this trio the Moriarty entry of General Tompse and Scotch Lass will have its work cut out, although both are familiar with the Maywood Park oval. A victory by either Frigate or Romaine, the other two -"Starters, would be regarded as a big surprise. According to the conditions of the race, there will be two heats, and should there be different winners the field will come back for a third heat. In case the third heat also is won by a different horse, the three heat winners decide the ultimate, victor of the stake in a fourth dash at one mile. Sportsmans Parks closing night feature, the 0,000 Invitational Trot, and literally the last race of the 42-night meeting, was marred by a series of unfortunate incidents and accidents. Risen Suns victory in the richest trotting race of the 1953 Chicagoland harness racing season, however pallid under the circum-v stances, was not undeserved and since the Ohio-owned trotter was, the public choice in the ill-starred race, his success struck a somewhat reconciliatary note among the biggest crowd present at a sulky program this year. When the nine-horse field Cady Song was a late scratch lined, up behind the mobile starting gate, Gene Acres Malcolm, with Harry Fitzpatrick in the sulky, made a break before the starting point of the one and one-sixteenth mile dash was breached. Since Malcolm had the rail position, Royal Vickie in post position No. 9 trailed the New York invader and was unable to avoid the breaking Malcolm and both Fitzpatricks and Bob Parkinsons sulkies were damaged in the clash, while the recall was sounded for the first time during the meeting. The replacement of the broken equipment .caused a delay of ten minutes. The second start was perfect, but the fractious Malcolm again was in a jumping mood before they got to the clubhouse turn and Royal Vickie also made. a break, this time of her own. Hambletonian starter, Express Celby, was the fastest horse away from the gate and had the lead around the first turn when Beck Hanover, driven by Joe OBrien, broke stride in second position. Floyd Hannis, Risen Suns reinsman, in the meanwhile lost no time md got his rangy trotter in front going down the backstretch. Risen Sun maintained a clear lead, followed by Express Colby, Little Steve, Poplar Perry, Spud Hart, Shorty De Ponti and Beck Hanover, all closely bunched, while Royal Vickie and Malcolm were distant trailers. Coming out of the last turn, Billy Rouse, driving Spud Hart, tried to pull out from behind the tiring Express Colby when Spud Hart made a break and hit Little Steves sulky and Beck Hanover, about to make his move, smashed into Normans cart from the outside, involving Poplar Perry and Shorty De Ponti in the mix-up. While Risen Sun scored a three-length victory over Express Colby, the unseated Clarence Curtis and Jack Leonard remounted their sulkies in time to save third and fourth place money for Shorty De Ponti Royal Vickie and Malcolm were the only other horses to finish the race. Although Parkinson drove a winner Saturday, Comets Royal in the AA-trot, hell probably never forget all the bad luck he encountered that night. Still nursing a smashed-up leg from a recent spill at the Aledo fair races, Bob was involved in the accident that occurred right at the finish line in the seventh race. Billy Wasson, driven by Jim Kealey, broke stride a few feet from the wire and, hitting Parkinsons sulky, unseated Lucy F.s driver, who made a double somersault, but never let loose of the reins and, after being dragged in the sand for almost 30 feet, Parkinson finally jumped back in the seat. Hardly able to stand or walk, Bob nevertheless came out with Royal Vickie for the big trot, only to
