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Send Heller Route At Omaha Today Recent Ak-Sar-Ben Winner Meets Bill Boots, Teddytoi In Featured Allowance Event By J. R. BATTY Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 2. An allowance race for three-year-old and older horses is the best contest of the eight-race card here Thursday and winners at the current session are well represented among the field. Posted as the sixth race on the twilight bill, which has a starting time of 3:30 p.m. CST for the first race, the headliner will require a limit field of 12 starters to match strides at one mile and 70 yards for a prize of ,050. Half of the card is made, up of route races. An abbreviated sprint of five furlongs, which nrpf.prips t,hf main afctrnr.tinn. also contains among the field of 12 assembled, a representative number of recent victors over the local strip: Forming a quartet of winners since this meeting began on May 20, in the feature are Teddytoi, Heller, Wichita Lass and Bill Boots. Others in the field are Crystal Pass, First Dawn, Hobie-B., Mr. Poise, Busy Victory, Line Driver, Mary Jane G. and Seguro. While Heller scored an impressive tally here last Thursday and his seasonal record of two victories and a third froni four starts at Bay Meadows is a fine recommendation of consistency, it is questionable if he will appreciate the longer distance requested in this engagement. Heller has not competed at a distance longer than six furlongs since February 1953 and on that occasion, which was a few yards more than a mile, he was third. The five-year-old son of Condiment was easily best in his lone try locally, downing Bamma by two and a half lengths. Wichita Lass, who wonearlier at the meeting, finished fifth to Heller and Line Driver was fourth. Boosted in Class Raymond Bates, who haltered Bill Boots after he won two straight races under the silks of Jess Byrd at this meeting, has elevated his recent acquisition somewhat in company against this band in hopes of earning a dividend at first asking. Teddytoi, performing under a claiming tag of ,500 at one mile and 70 yards, gained a set of brackets by defeating Gar- j ill cxl uj a iiau aandubiu. iucuj w vj. was third only another head away in third position. Teddytoi and Mary Jane G. will probably both be well supported in this return match. William Fudges Decontrol scored an upset tally when winning the featured race on Tuesday. Accomplishing the task over a "heavy" strip in 1:15, Decontrol came to the end of six furlongs with a short length to spare over Gallaride, who also was slightly less than a length in advance of Happy Tulip while the publics choice, Tollie H., finished seventh. Backers of Decontrol among the gathering of 5,752 fans collected 4.40. The Ashland, Nebr-owned winner was ridden by Wendell Leel-ing, leading jockey of the current meeting. Plaudette, a two-year-old owned in part- . nership by W. D. Rorick and L. O. Lane, stamped herself as a useful sort when triumphing over the highly regarded and favored Blue Chip Bond in the third race. Plaudette, a daughter of Mighty Story out of Plaudaway, who for a long period held the quarter-mile track record at New Orleans Fair Grounds and was a frequent winner over this strip during her racing career, paid 9.60 after trouncing Blue Chip Bond by two lengths. Breezy C, winner of the first race, and Vain Roy, who captured the following test, formed the successful Daily Double combination and it was worth 97.40.
