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VESTER R WRIGHT Leading trainer at the Keeneland meeting with nine Keeneland Wagering Breaks Mark Daily Average Play Snubs Bad Weather WeatherAttendance Attendance Suffers Slight Drop Toby B Claiborne Brooks Wright Land Atop AtopThe The Keeneland spring meeting of 11 days showed an increase of 38163 over 1955 in daily average mutuel play despite j encountering poor weather conditions on several days The daily average handle of 435171 is the highest for any meeting at the Lexington course and bettered the rec ¬ ord daily average high of 391708 for the aggregate 21 days of racing in 1953 The average attendance at the April 12April 26 session however showed a slight drop to 8387 a decline of 77 per day over 1955 1955The The recently concluded session was the first under the regime of Duval A Headley who earlier in the year was elected presi ¬ dent of Keeneland Race Course Inc which conducts the sport at the Lexington course courseDuring During the second week of the meeting Hal Price Headley a director of Keeneland a nonprofit organization wrote Gov A B Chandler of Kentucky suggesting that the 2 per cent tax on Keeneland wagering be restored to help Chandler balance the huge state budget budgetWagering Wagering on the Ben Ali Handicap April 21 saw a new singlerace wagering record of 112928 set setAs As usual the Blue Grass Stakes was the big event of the Keeneland meeting with Toby K a nonDerby eligible taking the measure of the highly regarded Career Boy Toby B earned 21235 for his effort effortSea Sea 0 Erin Peleats in Phoenix PhoenixIn In other stakes decided Sea O Erin scored a repeat in the Phoenix to give his owner Hasty House Farm its third in a row in the stakes Doubledogdare won the Ashland Timely Tip the Ben Ali and Round Table the Lafayette LafayetteBy By reason of his Blue Grass score plus another third Toby B was the leading moneywinning horse of the session with 21735 Doubledogdare a twotime vic ¬ tress was second with 15277 Claiborne Farm with six wins three seconds and three thirds led the owners with 38654 while VanDeren Deming owners of Toby B ranked second with 21735 21735Steve Steve Brooks who led the riders at Gulf stream Park repeated his 1955 perform ¬ ance at Keeneland booting home 12 win ¬ ners to 11 for Larry Gilligan Vester R Wright was the leading trainer with nine saddling successes to six for Moody Jolley JolleyKeeneland Keeneland statistics follow followApril April 12 to April 26 77 Days DaysGross Gross distribution 321700 321700Net Net distribution 305750 305750Daily Daily average net distribution 2779545 2779545Attendance Attendance 92255 92255Daily Daily average attendance 8387 8387Mutuel Mutuel handle 4786882 4786882Daily Daily average mutuel handle 435171 435171Leading Leading MoneyWinning Owners OwnersOwner Owner 1st 2nd 3rd Won WonClaiborne Claiborne Farm 63 3 38654 38654VanDeren VanDeren Deming 101 21735 21735Grissom Grissom T A 8 17 21335 21335Reverie Reverie Knoll Farm 5 22 17345 17345Hasty Hasty House Farm 151 14430 14430Calumet Calumet Farm 4 21 13900 13900Mooers Mooers C 325 11135 11135Birch Birch A L 121 10025 10025Brandywine Brandywine Stable 301 8995 8995Whitney Whitney CV 010 6955 6955Leading Leading MoneyWinning Horses Horse 1st 2nd 3rd Won TobyB 101 2173 Doubledogdare 200 1527 Round Table 20 0 14777 Sea O Erin 1 1 0 10755 Timely Tip 100 8800 Career Boy 010 6780 Fabius 200 6500 Jet Colonel 110 6345 Princess Turia Guard Rail 0 4870 Leading Winning Jockeys Jockey Mts 1st 2nd 3rd Unp PC Brooks S 62 12 10 8 32 19 Gilligan L 60 11 6 10 33 18 Baird R L 49 8 6 4 31 16 Heckman J 39 7 4 5 23 18 Cook L C 25 14 Church K 27 11 McKinsey E C 13 21 Rotz J L 29 10 Adams J 22 08 Dodson D 28 08 Guarjardo V 9 21 Kirkland A 12 15 Leading Winning Trainers Trainer Wins Trainer Wright V R 9 Armes G E Jolley M 6 Preston M Sanders F 5 Raines V W Jones H A 4 Trotsek H Trainer Wins Trainer Win AlbrechtH 2 Molay SJ Colglazier E T 2 NoeK Dees R 2 Rosenthal M J JLittrell Littrell B S 2 Willett H HThe The percentage of winning favorites was above normal as shown in the subjoined tabulation tabulationStake Stake Date Winner Value ValueThe The following stakes were decided i Phoenix Handicap April 14 Sea O Erin 7955 7955Ashland Ashland Stakes April 19 Double ¬ dogdare 12027 12027Ben Ben Ali Handicap April 21 Timely TimelyTip Tip 8800 8800Lafayette Lafayette Stakes April 25 Round RoundTable Table 12677 12677Blue Blue Grass Stakes April 26 Toby B 21235 21235Number Number of race 82 82Winning Winning favorites 33 33Winning Winning second choices 15 15Winning Winning Outsiders 35 35Winners Winners at oddson 10 10Defeated Defeated at oddson 5 5Percentage Percentage of winning favorites 4t Dead heats
