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On the Trot TrotI I By MORRIE KURLANSKY 1 1Second Second Dead Heat in Two Nights Maywood Boosts Purse Structure A T Gait Trot Feature Tonight TonightMAYWOOD MAYWOOD PARK Maywood 111 May 27 Buddy Barnes driven by Bruce Nickells for Howard Beissinger who had to cancel his mounts onWednes day night because of a death in his family and Express Chief with Ken Cartnal at the reins crossed the finish line on even terms in the midweek feature a claiming event for higher priced pacers It was almost a triple dead heat as Honor f Roll an even money favorite in the field of eight sidewheelers starting in this mile dash gamely defended his lead to be beaten only a nose by the fast closing pair This was the second dead heat within the last two racing nights as on Tuesday the trot ¬ ters Payne Hanover and Capri Crusader could nob be separated separatedFor For young Bruce Nickells the leading trainer of the 56 Maywood Park session it was his first win not only at this meet ¬ ing but since last September Ken Cart ¬ nal on the other hand has Hone very well this spring at Santa Anita and at this meeting where he scored five vic ¬ tories out of 13 starts Buddy Barnes it will be recalled originally was brought by Harry Hankins as a trotter but didnt show too much at the diagonal gait When converted to the pace the Guy Barnes gelding blossomed out rapidly and fetched a pretty good price from Melrose Park contractor John Chris ¬ topher who in turn sold the now seven yearold to his present owners Mr and Mrs Joseph Langer of Lombard LombardExpress Express Chief in his younger days be ¬ longed to the pretentious menage of C W Clark Dearborn Mich who at that time had an outstanding stable including the Hambletonian victor Sharp Note in charge of trainer Bi Shively The half brother to the 200 pacer Express Hal was a stakes winner at two and three but the last two seasons was plauged by lameness He seems to have got a new lease on life this season as his split victory on Wednesday was al ¬ ready his fourth since January he winning two races at Bay Meadows and one at Santa Anita AnitaHarry Harry Burright widened his lead in the Maywood driver standings when he guided the Wisconsinowned pacing filly Sheila Brooke to a smart triumph in a claiming race The Brookdale daughter in spite of five consecutive second places since April 2 was only second choice to Dakota Sandman but beat this one de ¬ cisively for her drivers 14th victory at this meeting meetingMaywood Maywood Park prexy Nathan Allen an ¬ nounced a substantial upgrading of purses for all classified events effective Monday May 6 The new purse structure is as fol ¬ lows Conditioned C class races 900 ppen C class races 1000 B class races 1200 A and AA class races 2000 junior free forall and freeforall races 2500 Ed Nehlig had to cancel his mounts on Wednesday night because of illness in the family Ownertrainer Hank Bowman escaped serious injuries Wednesday after ¬ noon although being kicked in the v face by his mount Show Prince after unhitch ¬ ing the trotter at the conclusion of a schooling race raceMrs Mrs Roy McGregor wife of the well knowii trainer driver with a recent let ¬ ter to one of the harness racing weeklies entered the discussion regarding claim ¬ ing races and in one paragraph of her letter makes the following statement I still believe that a conscientious and just racing secretary can best classify horses I do not think that Santa Anitas increased handle and attendance can be attributed solely to claiming races I believe that such an increase is a natural trend due in part to weather and superb racing As far as contests go I have seen Jew tight fin ¬ ishes at the running tracks and frankly I believe that the runners are now due to take some lessons from harness rac ¬ ing NO COMMENT Ten races will be offered at Maywood Park on Friday night The featured event will be the Arthur T Gait Trot for three yearolds which attracted 16 entries and will be raced in two divisions with eight starters in each The original purse of 5000 was upped 50 per cent to provide prize money of 3750 in each division Willy Tass a winner at Santa and here and Kimberley Way a Scottish Pence half sister to the trotting star Kimberly Kid now standing in stud in Kentucky loom as post favorites in the first division while the bulk of the wagering in the second di ¬ vision mosJK likely will be borne by Payne Hanover a winner here this week though finishing in a dead heat with the older Capri Crusader
