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Madeos Dream May Prove Repeater at Ak-Sar-Ben Meets Lehigh and Seven Other Sophomores in Columbus Purse By J. K. BATTY Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 23. — Thursdays twilight bill of eight races here is headed by the Columbus Purse, honoring the nearby city of Columbus, Nebr. An annual affair, a large delegation of Columbus City officials and directors of the Platte County Agricultural Society, which operates a 15-day thoroughbred meeting in July in Columbus, are expected to witness the sport which begins tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. CST. • The main attraction has nine three-year-olds entered to match strides at six furlongs for a purse of ,260. Supporting the principal offering, as the fifth race, is a dash of six furlongs which brings together a limit band of 12 well seasoned campaigners and is restricted to fillies and mares. Stoutest contenders for top laurels in the Columbus are Madeos Dream, Lehigh, Flying Bry and Rulers Faith. The others listed in the field are Reno John, TJlta Point, King-Ak, Farcuerette and Bit-O-Kin. Madeos Dream turned in a game and winning performance in her latest start here. Taking command shortly after the start of a six furlongs jaunt, Madeos Dream shook off repeated challenges to score by a head margin over Goodall. Only another nose away, came Lehigh. Competing with much sterner company in her first outing locally, Madeos Dream was a very impressive third to Mr. Beano and Atabee. Lehigh, when arrowly defeated by Madeos Dream, suffered poor racing luck from practically the start until well inside the stretch. Her previous race was a creditable one and before shipping here she earned a purse at Bay Meadows. Rulers Faith and Flying Bry finished second and third respectively to Sandair in their latest race. Flying Bry will probably make the early pace in this engagement but thus far in two appearances locally she has been unable to hold sway until the end. The Daily Double pay-off here Tuesday was 05.40. The successful combination was Courser, in the first race, and Straight Man, victor in the following dash. Coursjbr returned 0.80 at the straight windows while Straight Man was worth 4.40 ;at the same wicket. The feature, an allowance test of six furlongs, was captured by Nymphs Pride, owned by White Spot Farm and ridden by Eugene Curry. Nymphs Pride went the distance in a very swift 1:10 to down Babys Delight by a length and a half. Big Ox was third among the nine who competed. Nymphs Pride earned his second purse from three attempts over the local strip. His only defeat was a second to Peppern Salt, who equaled the track record for/five furlongs in downing him. Two jockeys escaped, injury Tuesday after being unseated from their mounts. Platte Valley tossed apprentice William Walsh at the start of the second race and Nowloggin dislodged jockey John Bellino M|jMji||jjjauiuiji2
