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Knights of AkSarBen Hosted at Fonner Park ParkScomber Scomber Vies With Seven Rivals In Dash Named for Omaha Group GroupBy By DEAN WILLIAMS WILLIAMSFONNER FONNER PARK Grand Island Nebr May 2 Fonner Park will play host to the Knights of AkSarBen Friday A large group of members from that Omaha phil ¬ anthropic organization is expected to be on hand for the day of racing named in their honor The Knights of AkSarBen sponsors the annual race meeting at Oma ¬ ha from May 21 to July 6 The profits from the races in turn finances the many chari jties of AkSarBen AkSarBenThe The featured seventh race has been tit ¬ led the Knights of AkSarrBen Purse The six and onehalf furlong affair drew the entry of eight well matched horses includ ¬ ing Rose of Grey Owl Martin Don Sol My Ride Anizami Duke K Sweet Infinity and Scomber ScomberJ J L Klesners Scomber made his first start of the year last Thursday and fin ¬ ished fourth behind O K Junior and Irish Villon The son of Lovely Night won three races last year while racing against allowance company and may have needed his first start at Fonner Park to bring him back to his 1956 form
