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i Ak-Sar-Ben By Pat Caudill Eight Handicaps Remain on Schedule Fine Sport Ahead for Midwesterners Silver State a Sterling Investment AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 16. The running of the ,000 Ak-Sar-Ben Ambassador Handicap on Wednesday was the seventh handicap to be decided since the opening of this meeting on May 19 and no less than eight handicap and stakes remain on the agenda. This assures the final two weeks of the 35-day meeting to be star-studded with top-grade performers with events for racers of all ages. Features which carry added money of ,000 each include the J. E. Davidson Memorial Handicap, top event of this Saturdays program, the George Brandeis Memorial- Handicap, Saturday, June 25; The Omaha Handicap, Saturday, July 2 and the Ak-Sar-Ben Juvenile Stakes to have its fifth running Wednesday, June 29. The Ak-Sar-Ben Council Handicap, a test for three-year-olds at six furlongs will offer a ,000 purse and -be decided next Wednesday, June 22. The Ak-Sar-Ben Futurity, slated for running on Friday, June 24, and the Ak-Sar-Ben Breeders Special, which will headline the program on Tuesday, June 28, each carry ,000 added money. Ak-Sar-Ben Handicap to Be Run July 4th Top offering of the meeting will be the 0,000 added Ak-Sar-Ben Handicap for three-year-olds and upward at the distance of one mile and one-sixteenth with this test slated for the holiday program of July 4, the final day of the meeting. Racing secretary Kenneth W. Mcintosh has recently received inquiries and requests for nomination blanks from several trainers presently racing in Illinois and Detroit which affords a possibility of invaders from those points for the top events. Certain to add color to the Juvenile Stakes is the recent arrival from St. Louis of N. R. Lows Akboy, who romped to an easy victory on Wednesday in his first outing here and kept his record unblemished in three starts. Silver State, owned by E. K. Carey of Denver and trained by Earl H. Beezley, has proven himself a sterling investment for his present owner having been claimed for ,500 on May 14 at Sportsmans Park and in five outings at this meeting, accounted for three winning efforts, earning purse money amounting to ,610. The three-year-old son of War Relic Betty Johnson scored a nose decision in Wednesdays ,000 Ak-Sar-Ben Ambassador Handicap under the handling of jockey Sonny Ray Williams and stamped himself a solid contender for the ,000 added Omaha Handicap on July 2. Williams displayed keen reismanship while astride the colt Wednesday and in so doing chalked up his twenty-second victory of the meeting which places him far advanced of his rivals for leading jockey honors. Briefs: The third and final issue of condition books for this meeting were released Thursday. Ralph W. Stubbs, accompanied by his wife, visited here Tuesday and remained busy throughout the day contacting horsemen in behalf of the Nebraska half-mile circuit, where he serves as racing secretary. The Madison meeting gets under way July 7. . . . Edward Shultz, general manager of the Nebraska State Fair Meeting held at Lincoln, was among the Sowers Club members attending Tuesdays program with the feature named to honor that club. . . . The Ak-Sar-Ben management has taken out a blanket membership for all jockeys and exercise boys at the downtown Y.M.C.A. permitting them to use all facilities of the athletic department without charge. Just another of the many courtesies extended to those on the local scene. Jockey Keene to Handle His Own Book Applebee arrived here from Fairmount Park. . . . Jockey Frank Keene has taken over the handling of his own riding engagements. . . . Owner-trainer A; D. Turner reports he has turned out his eight-year-old mare, O Me, at his Ashland, Nebraska, farm and she will be bred to Page Boots. . . . Eight claims were deposited for the four -year-old, Reno John, who accounted for the final race on Saturday under the silks of J. P. Neal. The Bowling Stable acquired the racer in the "shake" for ,000. . . . W. S. McClymonds, owner of the Trumac Stables, accompanied by Chet Nelson of the Rocky Mountain News, planed in from his Denver home and viewed the performance of his Dark Chief, beaten a nose in Wednesdays Ak-Sar-Ben Ambassador Handicap. . . . Jockey Rafael Tejada resumed riding duties on Tuesdays program following completion of a 10-day suspension. . . . The annual HBPA dinner for members will be held Monday, June 20, in the Ak-Sar-Ben paddock buffet. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Denny Odorisio became the parents of a fourth son born Monday in the Doctors Hospital here. Odor-isios father, Frank, is the local distributor for Daily Racing Form. . . . K. Norris and W. O. Hodsons Miss Skiatook, upset winner of Tuesdays third race, is named to honor the town of Skiatook, Oklahoma, located near Tulsa, which enjoyed a brief period of thoroughbred racing in the late ?20s. . . . The first 21 days of the meeting saw the 168 winners saddled
