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— Nine Sophomores In Downs Sprint Topweighted Jeffrey J. S. Gets 126 Pounds for Six Furlongs Mid-Week Event CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky.. May 10.— The ,000 Shelbyville Purse at six furlongs for three -year-olds is the principal attraction on the program scheduled for Wednesday at this Kentucky Derby track. The Shelbyville lured an overnight field of nine second-year racers and shapes up as a suitable mid-week feature. Under the conditions of the Shelbyville, J. H. Homans Jeffrey J. S., a homebred bay son of Billings and Always Flying, will take up the top burden of 121 pounds, spotting each of his rivals weight. Trained by Henry Forrest, the Homan colt has shown to good advantage thus far in the 1955 campaign and his recent morning trials have been on the quick side. Mrs. Norman J. Hernandez, of New Orleans, will be represented in the Wednesday sprint by Our Hines, a Sir Damion-sired colt, who raced well in the Crescent City before shipment to Kentucky. Our Hines, who will be guided in the Shelbyville by diminutive Lois Cook, also was a good class winner at Keeneland and ran third in his only engagement at the current Downs meeting. The Hernandez colt gets in with 118 pounds. Stone of Scone Assigned 113 Stone of Scone, a member of the-W. M. Ingram stable, a homebred son of Barre Granite and Vermont Marble, may prove troublesome should he race to his top form. Pegged at 113 pounds, Stone of Scone will have the saddle services of Jack Kurtz, who won astride the Ingram three-year-old at Keeneland April 25, defeating Alleghan, Iwillifican, Hasty Drive, and So, among others, in the three-quarters mile Winter Quarters Purse. Stone of Scone took up 117 pounds in the Lexington dash and completed his winning trip in 1:12%. Others expected to go to the post in the Shelbyville are Mrs. A. P. Richards recently-purchased Sweet Josie. 113; William Lucas" Phar Wiser, 108; Charles S. Nahms Royal Bred, 113, and Clifford Mooers Parr, 115 pounds. Also Sam E Wilson, Jr.s Challa Boy, 113, and Harry L. Freyns Silver Robby, 111 pounds. Jockey Dave Erb is engaged to pilot Sweet Josie, Johnny Adams will be at the reins on Phar Wiser, and Johnny Heck-mann rides Silver Robby in the Shelbyville. Alfred Popara was named on Challa Boy and Steve Brooks, a great favorite with Churchill Downs racing patrons, will be up on Royal Bred. No reinsman had been named for Parr and Jeffrey J. S. late today.
