view raw text
Armageddon Meets Allowance Field Has Light Impost At Atlantic City Beaten Choice in Boardwalk Ready to Make Amends With Score Over Nine Opponents By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent ATLANTIC .CITY, Mays Landing, N. J., Aug. 26. Cain Hoy Stables Armageddon, beaten favorite in the first division of last weeks Boardwalk Turf Handicap, will endeavor to make amends tomorrow afternoon when he meets allowance company in the mile and one-sixteenth Buena Vista Purse, to be contested on the main course. The four-year-old Alsab colt, a stakes winner in past seasons, hasnt earned a purse in five startsthis year, but has yet to turn in a really disappointing effort, having been jxo worse than fourth. He was second behind Sunglow in the Boardwalk on the past week end. Facing Armageddon in the ,000 Buena Vista are the following: Matt J. Cremens Be Gracious, Boncrist.Farms Better Goods, W.E. Browns Bank Coai, Houghton P. Metcalfs Roman Rocket, M. G. Dohertys Grandma. Josie, Mrs. H. G. Youngs Bessies- Beau, Mrs. Alfred Roberts Little Greg, Red Head Stables Futuresque and A. P. Mergardts Apsley. - Better Goods is unique in the field, in that he is the lone 1953 stakes winner of the group. This three -y ear-old Good Goods offspring accounted for the Yankee Handicap, after having been third in the Jersey earlier in the year. In his most recent outing, which was in Monmouths Choice Stakes, Better Goods was beaten - about three and a half lengths by Landlocked while finishing sixth in the bulky field. Four-Time Winner This Year Be Gracious, a hard-hitting Discovery mare, boasts a quartet of victories during her 10 -race campaign this season. She has won over four different tracks and usually gives a good account of herself in company similar to that which she is meeting in the Buena Vista. She last raced in the Mermaid Handicap here and was eight lengths behind Atalanta when the Darby Dan mare equaled the seven-furlong track record. Bank Coal is about up to his top effort, having dropped a close decision to Pass Play in his last in a mile and a sixtenth race which was timed in 1:45 Vs. Behind him on that occasion was the improved Argentine-bred, .Again U. Apsley has raced but three times since going wrong last year and has failed to attain winning form. He was a starter in Armageddons division of the Boardwalk and finished a well-beaten sixth. Roman Rocket, Grandma Josie, Bessies Beau and Futuresque finished as named behind One Throw recently, with the first-named in the runner-up position. Little Greg was in the following race that day and was more than.a dozen lengths behind Abidjan on the grass.
