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Cross Ring Topweighted In Governors Handicap Sledge Star Meets Butch K. and Seven Others in Omaha Feature By PAT CAUDILL Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 3.— Cross Ring, owned by Olen Sledge and to be ridden by jockey Sonny Ray Williams, will "carry top weight of 120 pounds in tomorrows headliner, the Ak-Sar-Ben Governors Handicap, for his first appearance since his sterling victory in the opening day Inaugural Handicap. The seven-year-old son of Charing Cross — Makann will race coupled in an entry with the same owners McCreight, winner of the Gallant Fox Purse here, and this campaigner gets in with 109 pounds. The feature is designed for four-year-olds and upward at the distance of six furlongs and nine in quest of the ,000 purse money have accepted weights assigned them by racing secretary Kenneth W. Mcintosh. Butch K., hard-hitting representative from the string of Guy and Walter Shultz, will be ridden by his regular pilot Harold Featherston, and is second in line in weight assignments with 114. He was beaten a nose by Cross Ring in the Inaugural "and finished third inJast Mondays Memorial Handicap after being backed to favoritism. Rounding out the field will be L. Jeffers Babys Delight with 112 pounds, J. K. Hous-sels Tolerant, weighted at 109; the White Spot Farms. Hy-Ill Go, 108; J. W. Coopers Undone, 106, and 104 pounds has been assigned J. T. Dillards Equichall and Ed Luthers The Snapper. Another top-notch affair on the eight-race program will be the seventh event, a test for four-year-olds and upward at the distance of one mile and 70 yards with W. R. Cluers Chittagong attempting to garner his second victory of the meeting over such as H. Wells Calloway K., G. Bamfords Doc Moorman and L. W. Johnsons Heart ; of Oak. »■
