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On the Trot I 1 By MOKRIE KUKLANSKY Frisco Creed Makes 1955 Debut Starts in Junior Free-For-AII Benny Schue Drives Hayes Star MAY WOOD PARK, May wood, 111., May 11. — At the close of the 1955 harness racing season two horses were sold for 0,000 each and by sorne coincidence both horses . became the property of Illinois owners. One of them, the Scotland colt Hundred Proof already has been presented to the Chicagoland ""public", which witnessed • him in two victories ; before his departure to | eastern tracks. On Sat-. urday night, the other i high-priced steed, the four-year-old pacing gelding Frisco Creed ! owned by the fabulous Hayes Fair Acres Stable of Du Quoin, will make his seasonal debut in the featured junior free-for-all pace. A son of the former world champion Jimmy Creed, Frisco Creed did not race as a two-year-old but wound up his initial campaign as the nations fastest three -year-old pacer changing owners twice in course of the season. Sold by his first owner Howard Parker for 2,000 to the Keith Stables of Brooklyn, N. Y-., trainer Russell Valles Key reined the gelding to four successive triumphs at the Hollywood Park mile track. In his final start Frisco Creed paced the mile in 1:59 for a seasons record and was acquired by the Illinois stable for the aforementioned sum. Frisco Creed will have the sulky services of a past master in his profession, Hayes contract driver Benny Schue, victorious in the countrys most outstanding Grand Circuit events with the great free-legged pacer Dudley Hanover and the worlds leading money-winning harness horse, trotting gelding Pronto Don. The illustrious team, however, will have formidable opposition in Saturdays mile dash in Sherrys Honor, victorious in her last three races here, Californian winner Freeman Hanover, meetings record holder Jake Rodney, King Gaines, Plutocrat, and. Jimmie Taylor. As Sherrys Honor definitely proved superior to Hundred Proof in their last encounters here, the Indiana mare with the great finishing power rates a good chance to upset also the Hayes speedster. Freeman Hanover, a disappointment in his first start here after his Santa Anita stake triumph, was caught in a quick 2:07 the other morning and with the rail position might be hard to beat. Whoever wins this dash, it will be a great horse race and one the fans will not forget too soon. Bright-side Farms Triple Crown Ham-bletohian, Yonkers Futurity, Kentucky futurity candidate Moray, a close relation to the stables ace trotter Jamie, turned in an unexpectedly good effort in Thursdays CC class trot to defeat a field of seasoned performers over a heavy track. The slim crowd installed the Darnley colt a 2-to-l favorite on the strength of his fine record since he broke his maiden here on April 7. Although this was the first time for the promising three-year-old to race over any-, thing but a fast track while meeting older rivals like the former free-for-all star Pat Lee, he acquitted himself in great style of this task to make him a serious contender for the rich and important classic events for his age and gait. For trainer Bob Parkinson it was the sixteenth victory out of 39 starts at this meeting, while Brightside Farms widened their lead as the leading money-winning stable here. In the William R. Edmondson Memorial Trot for BB class campaigners, another Darnley offspring, Dr. H. T. Wills Chicago-owned filly Lady Brookwood showed to best advantage with trainer Glenn Hawkins at the reins Lady Brook-wood, one of the fastest trotting fillies in the country in her three-year-old form last season and holder of the trotting track record for sophomores with a mile in 2:05£, made her second start of the season in this event, for which she had drawn the outside post position. Hawkins trailed the field until the five-eighth pole and once he asked his charge for speed, the filly simply pulled away from her six rivals to win by five lengths. Co-favorite Hal Spencer spoiled his chances by making breaks both at the start and at the quarter pole when in front, but it is very doubtful if he could have resisted Lady Brookwood in the final panel. According to Hawkins, Lady Brookwood is a much better horse now than she "was last year. He ascribes her break in her seasonal debut when she had the lead turning for home to tiredness and being a trifle short. She was ready, however, last night and as firmly gaited over that rough surface as a hoppled pacer. Chicagoland harness fans can be assured that she will be a major factor in important early-closing events at Sportsmans Park, where the long stretch will be very much in her favor. Bob Long:, oldest son of trainer Wilbur Long", will take over the driving: chores during- his fathers eastern trip with world champion pacing- gelding- BHaven, . . . The Norman C. Towne Stock Farm of Libertyville after an absence of two • seasons, will be represented at Chicago harness tracks by the fcood pacers Lindon and Lew MacPherson and an unraced three-year-old sidewheeler. The trio arrived here recently and were given to leading- trainer-driver Bruce Nickells for further preparation, . . . Virginia Hen-son reports the death of her broodmare Lassie Creai a few days after the matron dropped a colt by Sheldon Pointer, a. well-known campaigner in the Chicago area for many seasons. . . . John Christopher bred his mare Easter Flowers to R. C. Flanerys stallion Norris Hanover.
