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Cincinnati Special Brings Out Eight Circus Clown and Heredity Share Top Weight of 118 In River Downs Feature By W. A. CRUSE Staff Correspondent RIVER DOWNS, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 24. The card for Saturday is the best arranged to date at this meeting. Any one of the scheduled nine events could serve as an excellent featuren a week-day card and while the handicap is thetop billing for Saturday, there are several contests vying for the secondary interest. Originally advertised as the Buckeye Handicap, the seventh affairs title was changed when it was brought to racing secretary Lawrence Bogenschutz attention that while Randall Park in Cleveland has one of the richest events in the State of Ohio with that title. Instead, this will be the sixth running of the Cincinnati Special Handicap. In past years the staging for this affair was at one mile and 70 yards and this will be the initial running of the event at six furlongs. The purse for the Special Handicap this year is ,500 against the ,000 offered last season, but the event remained open to those which are three-year-olds or older. Of the original 10 nominated for the event, eight accepted weights assigned and from all present indications the betting records for a single race will fall by the wayside. Top impost of 118 pounds goes to W. J. Waldens Circus Clown and Wallace Strongs Heredity. Next in consideration are R. S. Hildebrands Ziggity with 117, E. A. Bischoff.s King Phalanx 116, the Charmat Farms Our Temper 110, E. Rinaldis Naomi and Creel Brown, Jr.s Sonny Brown 108 each, and the feathery allotment of 102 pouonds goes to Mrs. B. M. Palms Little Papoose. Won Lone Start of Meeting Circus Clown appears well deserving of the impost assigned. The 10-year-old Tiger gelding made his one and only start a winning one and romped to a two and one-quarter length advantage in the Kentucky Day Purse. At the same six furlongs the time was 1:12 and it is not unlike!-that he will improve off that effort. Circus Clown is probably the richest campaigner on the grounds, having enmassed well over 24,000 in his career, and can be counted upon to be trying for the larger portion of this purse Saturday. Heredity is coming off a mile and one-sixteenth affair in which he finished second to Naomi. The Bimelech gelding carried 120 pounds, consisting mostly of jockey Howard Craig and was beaten but three-quarters of a length after being on top most of the journey. Some of his early morning -trials indicate that he has retained his early foot and will very probably furnish Circus Clown the bulk of competition. The sixth race on the card, an allowance race at one mile and 70 yards has attracted eight. They will be competing for a ,500 purse and the group in general offers a challenge to determine which should receive the greatest support. The line-up includes the Arbywood Stables Lonoke Flash, Delia Shrivers Scoyl, the Saxon Stables Marcador, Wal- Continued on Page Fifty-Nine Cincinnati Special Handicap Lures Eight at River Downs Continued from Page Three lace Strongs Ten-o-Two, the Midwest Stables Uncensored, H. W. and M. F. Thomas. Mara Maru, C. H. Halls Fly Rod and J. B. Randolphs Ermine Tail. The last of this group, Ermine Tail, has turned in two consecutive victories while going in the claiming ranks. The last was a three and one-quarters of a length advantage over Scoyl at a mile and one-sixteenth for ,000 platers. The time for the distance was a flat 1:46 and the Royal Gem II. filly appears ready to ascend the scale to another victory. Marcador will be making his debut in this part of the country and if he is anywhere near his top form should handle this group, effectively. The Bold Venture offspring went rather evenly in the 0,000 added Massachusetts Handicap last year and while he was not among the honorably mentioned his performance was such that a near repeat would make him a winner in this group. "3 wit i uo-ih 31 t t
