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Eight Mature Opponents In River Downs Offering Idle Boy Seeks Repeat Score; Heredity, Miss Revoked Rivals By W. A. CRUSE Staff Correspondent RIVER DOWNS, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 17. The Green Hills Country Club Purse is feature attraction on the nine-race card here Saturday and while there are but eight contestants to meet at a mile and one-sixteenth, the race promises to offer one of the more keenly contested battles of the meeting. The group is comprised of four-year-olds and older allowance campaigners and they will be vying for a. portion of a ,500 purse. R. C. Howards Idle Boy will be out for a second consecutive visit to the winners circle in as many starts at the meeting. In his first endeavor he eked out a nose verdict over F. Hansers fleet-footed Coal Heat. Jockey R. L. Belanger was in the saddle that day and the time for the six furlongs, was 1:14. The track was heavy as the time "would indicate and from all predictions it will be lightning fast tomorrow. Heredity, the W. Strong colorbearer, will also be trying for a second consecutive win. The Bimelech gelding has had two outings over this track and scored a second, then a win and the latter performance was so impressive that he cannot be disregarded under any circumstances. To score in the American Bar Association Purse, Jockey Howard Craig sent him six furlongs over a heavy strip in 1:14 and had a shade better than two and one-quarter lengths on the Arbywood Stables Lonoke Flash. The latters stablemate, Spy Defense, is also named to this race tomorrow, and was fourth to Heredity, a good five lengths in his wake. Mary J. Bauers Miss Revoked, also to go postward in the Green Hills, brought up the rear. But the track condition may have had considerable bearing on the performances turned in by the Revoked mare. The fourth race on the card should be an excellent secondary attraction. Kitchen and Davis Newmarket Maid, one of the first of Citations get to graduate from the maiden ranks this year, will be out for another victory. A truly handsome filly, she soundly trounced a field of seven other juveniles in the Myrtlewood Purse here earlier in the meeting" and negotiated the five furlongs in :59 to be but one and one-fifth of a second off the track record. The standard :58 has been in existence at this course since September 8, 1925 and was set by Reputation. Newmarket Maid may be the. one to equal if not shave it if the track continues in its present condition.
