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Classy Card Today AtAk-Sar-BenOval Queens Plate Feature Event; Hiram Jr. Is Likely Favorite; Blue Call in Allowance Affair By J. B. BATTY Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 11. Saturdays program here, the 19th of a scheduled 35 racing days, is the best thus far drafted by directos of racing Dick Leigh at the current session. Reputation horses with local fans fairly "clutter up" the program, and a large throng is expected to witness the sport. Aside from the featured race, an overnight handicap which attracted the entry of six of the fleetest sprinters on the grounds to vie at six furlongs for a purse of ,600, are two excellent allowance dashes. Each of the condition races contains starters which have gained, through previous races over the local strip, a host of followers. The main attraction of the bill of eight races is called the Queens Plate, honoring the Queen of Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, installed last October at the annual coronation ceremony. - Comprising the field in the Queens Plate are T. Johnsons Hiram Jr., 116; Mrs. S. Foleys March Lark, 107; Whittenbaughs Styles Dream, 106; D. T. Crabtrees Gunner Lad, 112; J. K. Houssels Lefty James, 114, and C. Ettenspergers Roman Secret, 110. The field in the third race, which is an allowance dash exclusively for three-year-olds, contains among the lineup of eight, Blue Call, who was accorded the honor of best juvenile seen in action here last season. Xo-Trqck-Record Holders Meet The other non-claiming event, the fifth race, to be decided at five furlongs, attracted among 10 starters the entry of Curtain Raiser and Pepper nSalt. co-holders of the local track record of :58 for five furlongs. Highweight among the field in the Queens Plate is Hiram Jr., who shoulders 116 pounds. This is four more pounds than he carried last week end when annexing top laurels in the Governors Handicap at the same distance. Four of the quintet he faces Saturday were in his wake last week end, the lone exception being Lefty James. Hiram Jr. earned his second purse at the meeting when coming to the wire a length before Roman Secret. Gunner Lad was fourth, another two lengths away, while Styles Dream finished fifth. March Lark finished last. Roman Secret, who set the pace in last week ends headliner, gets into this engagement with an eight-pound shift in weights to his advantage. After accounting for the Inaugural Handicap, Roman Secret was third in his next outing to Hiram Jr. Gunner Lad, who won six races in eight tries here last year, was probably a. trifle short of a peak effort in his local debut last Saturday. The four-year-old son of Cannons Roar Martha Vito had not been out for three months -previously. Styles Dream might have given better account of herself, but was pinched back sharply a few strides after the break.
