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! On the Trot 1 By MOKRIE KURLANSKY Young Milburn Has Three Wins "Phil Bob Takes Feature Event Lighthil! Scores Two Straight SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, 111., June 17. That amazing youngster from West DePere, Wis., 18-year-old high school stu- dent Phil Milburn, Jr., did it again capturing Wednesdays feat u r e race, a 14 class pace stake, with Phil Bob to make it four straight victories, for the family stable with four, different horses. Three of those winners were driven by the slender, blond-thatched youth, who is rapily gaining recognition as a rising sulky star. His success with the well-bred Phil Bob, the horse with whom he burned up the country ovals three years ago, reflects alertness and a fine sense of pace. Phil Bobs condition was superb as attested by the meetings record time of 2:04, which is also a new mark for the son of The Abbot and the Hal Dale mare, Babe Hedge-wood. Held off the pace for the first three-eighths when Victory Scott and Easter Bunny engaged in a speed duel for the lead that carried them to the first quarter pole in :29-seconds, the "kid" resolutely came out of fourth position in the six-horse field when Billy Shuter behind Easter Bunny tried to give his mount a breather after that fast first quarter. At the half-mile mark reached in 1:02 Phil Bob had a clear lead and racing: on at an even clip was never in danger for the rest of the mile. On the contrary, he easily withstood Victory Scotts challenge in the final turn and early stretch to draw out for a four and a half lengths victory. Victory Scott saved second money from My Scotch Belle, while Easter Bunny finished a, disappointing fifth. Incidentally, Phil Bobs success rounded out a father and son double as his three-year-old offspring, Phil Bingen, won a race the night before. There are two more father-and-son combinations currently racing here. Fez Oaks, he a winner on Tuesday night, too, and Fez Siskiyou and Hal Counsel and Kid Hal. Everett Chiefs first foal, has yet ta make his debut. Michigander Kenny Ldghthill, trainer of a small public stable, was very much in the limelight on Wednesday as he annexed two consecutive races with horses owned by Jerry and Betty Cassidly of Lees Creek, Ohio, and finished second with his only other mount of the night, F. J. Ehrats Ohio-owned Hadacall. His first winner was .seven-year-old pacing gelding Cedar Creek in a C class event, while the five-year-old Victory Song stallion, just recently acquired by Mrs. Cassidy, lowered his half mile record to 2:09 in a 23 class trot somewhat justifying the high hopes his former connections held for him after an auspicious three-year-old season. When Duplicate, with Howard Beissinger in the suky, and His Song, driven by Tom Wilburn, collided and fell going into the clubhouse turn, it marked the fourth spill during the last three racing nights. Both Wilburn and Beissinger showed admirable presence of mind in holding their horses down until the field passed the scene of the accident the second time around and avoided further mishaps. The race, a CC class trot, was won by California-owned longshot Chelse with Jacques Grenier at the reins. Duplicate was an 8-fo-5 public choice, while His Song was second favorite at 2-to-l. Although bruised and shaken up, Beissinger did not cancel his engagement in the following race and drove Eddie Ey to a clever victory in his typical come-from-behind style. Stan Adams, who races the pretentious stable of C. W. Clark, Dearborn, Mich., was a recent visitor here and together with Stan Stucker, trainer of the Mike Taylor stable, looked up track announcer Stan "Bergstein to renew an old friendship. The Ohioan reported that the 1952 Hamble-tonian victor Sharp Note the Phonograph stallion was trained at that time and driven in the Goshen classic by Bi Shively after a successful comeback last winter has once again been turned out arid might be finally retired to stud. Otherwise Adams is doing fine in New York and the Maryland Circuit having such good ones as Express Hal, Express Chief and Pirellas Jerry among others in his care. . . . The husband and "wife team of Jack and Joyce Hankins, she -is-the daughter of Grandma Burright, have opened a public stable following the partial dispersal of Paul S. Doughertys stable. . . . It must be June, for Art Berry, the successful Fort Dodge Iowa, owner-trainer, has arrived here. Reports that Victory Counsel, a winner of five straight races here last year, has trained well and hopes to consolidate the fleet pacers claim to free-for-all membership before long.
