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Valley Sprite, Ziggity Meet at River Downs Mondays Top Offering Also Has Brownies Girl in Big Line-up RIVER DOWNS, California, Ohio, June 19. — Full starting fields, with the maximum number on the also-eligible list, is the order for the day, Monday, the fifteenth program of this 44-day session. The smallest field of the day is in the seventh and feature attraction, the Findlay Market Association Purse, and there are 14 drawn on the overnights for this so-called allowance event. From all present indications there will be a full contingent in each race to meet starter Tom Brown and it is difficult to center attraction on , an event that will invoke a great deal of interest. The Findlay Market Association contest is four four-year-olds and older horses and is the result of an extra that was hung up by racing secretary and handicapper Eugene W. Bury when the original in the book failed to attract the- right number. Under the conditions it is for the above age group which have started.,f or a claiming price of ,500 or less in 1953 and 1954 and which have not won 25 other than claiming in 1954. In consequence the test is principaled by the platers and it is quite an open affair. Comprising the group are L. Hicks Englands Jr., Mrs. M. Rinkes Forest Belle, W. Fritz and C. Neddeffs My Faith, Leo Snodgrass Sea Sweet, George Coes Valley Sprite, George McFarlands Frisky Jimmy, the Meshewa Farms Irish Robyn, Mrs. W. K. Smiths Beau Rambler, F. Woods Foxy Sun, Mrs. A. Travis Brownies Girl, William Alexanders Rypsy Blood, and Mrs. R. Buirleys Ziggity. The pair on the also eligible list are C. Bachelors Pennfleur and S. I. Crews Cyds Baby. ; valley sprite iinisnea lourtn to J. R. Wisemans Le Galouis, W. Chopins Gray Battle and W. H. Prices Platter Scout in the Old Fitzgerald Purse, feature attraction last Wednesday. The Mel Eppley filly was beaten by three and one-quarter lengths for it all and was on top of this slightly better band for the better part of a half mile. Her one winning performance this year was her previous effort at this track while going amid ,000 platers. Under the able direction of jockey W. D. Lucas that day she negotiated six furlongs in 1:145 over a muddy strip, to be two and one-quarter lengths the best of Smoke House. She may again be in the right spot for a good accounting. Brownie Girl is stepping up the ladder considerably for an attempt at a third victory at the meeting. This seasoned Brownie mare handled a heavy strip effectively among ,000 platers then graduated some to the ,250 class, to turn in an even more impressive victory. Her last outing was a worthy second to C. B. Hudsons Situation in the Kentucky Purse, the spotlight attraction on Kentucky Day at River Downs of Ohio, which was celebrated last Tues- day. She is much improved this year and could make her presence felt in this group. Maiden sophomores make up the first half of the Daily Double and the second race, the second half of the Double, is for the "aged" and up which are valued at ,250. Graduation ceremonies will again be in order following the running of the third race, which ,is Lfor two-year-old. maidens and staging through1 fclie fourth* race is six 1 furlongs.
