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Thirteen Compete In Imp Handicap Best Air Looms Choice Off Recent ThistleDown Score; Cajole, Task Fleet Threats By RONALD KRANCER Staff Correspondent THISTLEDOWN, North Randall, Ohio, June 25. Racing secretary and handicap-per Fred Burton has arranged an excellent program for Saturday, headed by the ,000-added Imp Handicap for fillies and mares at six furlongs. The Imp has attracted a large field of 13 starters, including an entry. The feature will be run as the eighth race, and just preceding the stake is a race at a flat mile that should create a great deal of interest as many of the nominees for the 5,000 ThistleDown Cup will go postward. The field for the second running of the Imp will line up as follows: The Mrs. Mary Hunter entry of Cajole, 120, and Pinelet, 112; Mrs. Betty McCumbers Mor-Snoozey, 113; Mrs. L. L. Voight, Jr.s, Solar System, 111; Mrs. Lawrence Frys Best Air, 120; Smith and Steeles Mestiza, 116; McDermott and Wellmans Task Fleet, 112; Mrs. Mabel Burkes Pashpie, 111; John Barry Ryans Slippy, 114; A. S. Moores Wal-Dot-O, 108; Paul Youkilis Elaine Ruth, 110; Myron Hamars Wolf Gal, 112, and Royal Manie Stables Hi Decker, 106 pounds. Won Cleayeland Handicap B.est Air will be seeking her second consecutive tally over the local track and may go postward as the lukewarm choice in this wide - open affair. She won the Moses Cleavelend Handicap in a sensational manner as she came from far off the pace, circled her field on the turn and was up to outfinish Cross Ring in the final desperate strides to the wire. She carried 110 pounds in that race which was against mostly colts and geldings. The Best Seller mare ran in Maryland this spring before shipping into her owners Continued on Page Seven 3 Thirteen Compete In Imp Handicap Best Air Looms Choice Off Recent ThistleDown Score; Cajole, Task Fleet Threats Continued from Page One home state and while at Bowie matched strides with some of the best sprinters on the grounds. Against Eatontown one afternoon she was third, beaten only four and a half lengths and then came back the next time to finish a length off Ocean Breeze at Pimlico. Last season she won over 2,000 and visited the winners enclosure seven times. Task Fleet, four - year - old daughter of Mighty Story, comes here from the Detroit Race Track with excellent credentials. She ran third in the 0,000-added Rose Leaves last Saturday, beaten only two and three-quarters lengths by Sharbot and Sun Tan Gal. Running well behind Task Fleet in that race was Sickles Image, who was selected as the outstanding handicap filly and mare of 1953. Cajole and Pinelet make a most formidable entry in the Imp and either one could take the major share of the purse. Cajole has had a race over the track, one in which she won by a head after a stirring stretch battle withvYea Bama. Her time for the five and one-half furlongs was 1:06 over the fast strip. That was her third outing of the year. Pinelet, a winner of the Miss Cleveland Stakes last season at Randall Park, will be making her initial start since the fall meeting here at ThistleDown. Her season record last year was four tallies in 16 starts which was good for 3,908 for her Gates Mills owner. In three starts here she was never worse than third, but will be seeking her first ThistleDown victory in the Imp. Mestizo Has Scored Upsets Mestiza has sprung several upsets in this area in the past two summers, probably the most famous was her defeat of Avocado in the Scarlet Carnation Handicap at Randall Park last year. She has won once here thus far at the meeting and certainly cannot be counted out of the Imp as can be attested by the weight of 116 pounds, which Burton has assigned the East Liverpool-owned mare. Wolf Gal, winner of the juvenile at Hia-leah Park last year, looks quite good in the Imp. The filly will have a change of riders from Fred Ryan to Donald Bowcut which certainly should enhance the fillys chances in this test. Wolf Gal has been running against the toughest colts and geldings on the grounds and in her last race the Moses . Cleaveland she was moving rapidly along the rail when she was caught in close quarters and had to be pulled up sharply and lost all chance. Slippy, a recent arrival from Detroit, also ran in the Rose Leaves last Saturday and wound up fifth, also reaching the wire in front of Sickles Image. Of the others seeking the Imp it would appear as though Solar System would have the best opportunity of a winning race. She has looked very good here recently and was also a hard filly to beat this spring while at Pimlico. The seventh race will send the following postward, Wismo Pick and Play, Blenmint, Shag Tails, Whiffenpoof, Shamrock, Little Imp, Country Gossip, Coded Message, Mr. Skip, and Hold dOr. Wismo and Little Imp will run as an entry as will Blenmint and Mr. Skip. Little Imp beat many of these same horses last week going a little further, but in the manner that the Everitt colorbearer handled himself it would not be too surprising if he should win again.
