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. Badger in Quest Of More Laurels Recent Hazel Park Winner Concedes Poundage to His Eight Foes in Lake Orion By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent HAZEL PARK, Mich., Aug. 26. The Lake Orion Purse, a six and one-half furlongs condition race for three-year-olds and up, will headline an attractive program Thursday afternoon at this popular suburban Detroit race course. The sprint feature drew a field of nine shifty performers, representing eight interests, and the highweight under the allowance terms is Saginaw Stables hard-hitting Badger, who will shoulder 117 pounds. Jockey Howard Craig, who began the racing today third in the Hazel Park riding standings, will have the mount on Badger. Marion H. VanBerg whose stable annually plays a prominent role at Wolverine State meetings, will saddle an entry for the Lake Orion Purse. The colorful Columbus, Nebr., turfman will send out Mock Battle, 114, and the quick filly, Fine Fiddle 109 pounds. Jockey Lois Cook is to guide one of the VanBerg stable entrants. Others Rated Dangerous While Badger and the VanBerg duo certainly rate highly in the Lake Orion field several others entered in the dash are favorably-weighted and dangerous. Mrs. Helen Chris will rely on the speedy homebred mare, Bolaris, 104; Glolite Stables Lake Orion representative is Witch Way, 111, and Reuben Kowalls Springbrook Farm silks are to be carried by the one- Continued on Page Forty-Three Badger Seeking Repeat Hazel Park Accounting Has VanBerg Duo, Seven Other Fast Rivals in Lake Orion Purse Continued from Page One time stakes star, Pur Sang, pegged at 111 pounds. Dorchester Farm Stables Oreo, 111; P. H. Miles White Cliff, 105, and Annalora and Tereses Nola Hash, 109 pounds, completes the probable starting band. Badger, a five-year-old Blue Flyer-sired stallion, defeated Suffki, McGrathiana, Clear Day and Abisok in the three-quarters mile Pontiac Purse here last week -and his recent morning trials have been quite satisfactory, according to word from trainer Bryan H. Wise. Badger, a versatile racer on wet or dry footing, trimmed Lonoke Flash, Wisenheimer, Bolaris and others of that class at the Detroit Race Course, July 18 in the six-furlong Fenmore Purse, which was contested on a sloppy track. Dark horse in-the Lake Orion is Witch Way, a six-year-old gelding, the get of Galway and Witchs Circle. The Glolite Stable sprinter, a good class winner of four engagements during his 1952 campaign, visited the Bowie charmed circle after turning back a fair band in an overnight dash May 2. After arrival in Michigan, Witch Way placed on two occasions at the MRA oval and he was third to Cajac and Princess Trace at Hazel Park in the three-quarters mile Rock X Purse August 20. Dick Lawless may accept the mount on Witch Way in the Thursday principal offering. Best -supporting event on the Thursday card is the seventh race which matches eight useful middle distance performers at one mile and one -sixteenth. Arrow Stables Luscious Fruit, K. M. Littles The Stinger, D. Ss H. Stables Sulmari, and George Bills, Jr.s Papa Felix should go well in the secondary attraction. Others entered are R. Zakoors Dealer, J. D. Dyers Jay Cee, R. A. Paracheks Dance Routine, and Grand Egyptian, from the Mr. and Mrs. George Nugent barn.
