Omaha Cards Juvenile Dash as Co-Feature Today: Route Event for Seasoned Racers Engages Dinahill, Andy Display, Daily Racing Form, 1954-06-04

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Omaha Cards Juvenile . Dash asCo-FeatureToday N Route Event for Seasoned Racers Engages Dinahill, Andy Display By J. It. BATTY Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 3. With a superior grade of two-year-olds to draw from this season than in recent past years here, an allowance race for juveniles was selected to co-feature Fridays card. The other equally attractive offering on the eight-rfice program brings together more seasoned campaigners at one and one-sixteenth miles. The juvenile race, in which a limit band of 12 youngsters are named overnight, is posted as the fourth race and offers a purse of ,740. It requires two-year-olds for the first time to go five furlongs, a sixteenth mile farther than called for thus far at the current session. The line-up in this dash includes, Miss Rene, Pads Time, Sports Cousin, Sad Miss, Mildred V, Night Street, Dont Move, Super Continued on Page Forty-Three ARAB ACTRESS Breezed a half mile in :50 in the slop at Washington Park in preparation for her engagement in Saturdays Fleming Memorial at Lincoln Fields. Omaha Cards Juvenile Dash asCo-Feature Today Route Event for Seasoned Racers Engages Dinahill, Andy Display Continued from Page Three Sue, Right-Swell, Brief Dream, Bold Slip and Rado Image. The distance event, which should provide interesting sport and spirited wagering because the group appears evenly balanced, is scheduled as the sixth race. Contained in the field are Leap Year Boy, Dinahill, SJiparound, Grand Zephyr, Concrete, Andy Display, Grandpa Sam and Talking Girl. v Dinahill and Andy Display won in their latest starts here. On Tuesday, Dinahill earned a purse when downing Ladies Badge by three lengths and the same distance represented for this engagement. The previous day, Andy Display got up in the final stride of a mile and a furlong test to edge out Concrete. Grandpa Sam, "endeavoring to make it three triumphs in a row at the current meeting, tired the final furlong in his race on Monday and finished fifth to Taywin. Leap Year Boy was among the same field and ended up three lengths behind Grandpa Sam at the wire. After scoring an impressive tally her first time out over the local strip, Sliparound was forced to settle for second money in her next outing, losing the decision to Copperstone by some six lengths. Another who boasts of a victory at the meeting is Grand Zephyr. This veteran son of Granville registered an upset when capturing a purse on the first Saturday card presented at this meeting. He earned a purse by a length and a half at the direct expense of Esther K. Talking Girl might have been a trifle short of a top effort when finishing fourth on Tuesday to Cash Money. After setting the pace for slightly more than six furlongs of this one mile and 70-yard test and competing over a heavy strip, Talking Girl shortened stride in the run to the wire. Harry Wells Calloway K. accounted for the featured race on Wednesday. Performing before 5,900 chilled fans, Calloway K. came from off the pace with a burst of speed to overtake Kind Reception in the late stages and scored by a half length. Bamma, the publics choice in this mile and 70 yards allowance contest, set the pace until inside the sixteenth mile post before faltering and finished third another neck away. Calloway K., handled by. William Walsh, negotiated the distance over a muddy strip in 1:45 and was a 2-to-l hazard in the wagering. The Daily Double pay-off was 4.80 with favorites winning both halves of this popular form of wagering. Tom Breneman succeeded for the chalk players in the opener and Robin K. took down the top portion of the purse in the second race.


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