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On the Trot By MORRIE KURLANSKT Dauntless Dare Makes Impression Harmening Gets Sweet Revenge Morgan Takes Over Driver Lead LeadMAYWQOD MAYWQOD PARK Maywood 111 May 4 Friday nights racing at Maywood Park was highlighted by several outstanding per ¬ formances by three yearold trotters arid pacers The featured event the Arthur T Gait Stake for sopho ¬ more trotters at ¬ tracted 16 entries from an original 25 nom ¬ inations and therefore split in two divisions with 3750 distributed in each mile dash Dauntless Dare a Bombs Away gelding from the good producer Dauntless Sue captured the first division after a hectic stretch duel with Ingalls Hanover to re ¬ ward his few backers with a 64 win mutuel Although Dauntless Dare owned by Mrs Richard Taylor of Indianapolis with Richard Taylor in the sulky made his first start this season and had never before raced under the lights he acquitted himself in brililant style and bears watch ¬ ing in valuable earlyclosing events to be raced at Sportsmans Park during the sum ¬ mer months monthsWhere Where Mel Harmening had to admit defeat in the first division with B J Bcnfields wellbred Ingalls Hanover he sot sweet revenge in the second division which he annexed with Ingall Hanovers stablematc Payne Hanover The Titan Hanover colt who earlier in the week finished in a dead heat for win with the older Capri Crusader in an overnight event justified his short odds of 4tp5 as he triumphed easily over the pace setting Mayson and fastclosing Tay ¬ lors Song The latter driven by his ownerbreeder Donald Taylor of Craw fordsville Ind and father of Richard Taylor winner of the first division was a sensation on the Indiana fair circuit last season where he won 10 out of 16 races racesBy By the former trotting star Victory Song out of Taylors fine mare Clarann dam also of such good ones as Scotts Clan Air Hostess Air Speed Flight Master and Overtone Taylors Song like Daunt ¬ less Dare made his seasonal debut in Fri ¬ days stake It looks like Hie threeyear old trotting division this year will present some of the best races of the season with such good youngsters as Dauntless Dare Ingalls Hanover Payne Hanover and Tay ¬ lors Song around aroundEddie Eddie Morgan followed his double vic tory of Thursday night with another double on Friday to take over the top position in the driver standings The accomplished Ohioan reined the pacing mare Jo Colleen for her third success of the season in a claiming event and came back three raceslater to chalk up an impressive triumph with the three yearold pacing colt Freddie Volo to lower the High Volo sons record to 208i In five starts this season Fred ¬ die Volo was the winner on four occa ¬ sions and in his only defeat finished second to the older Caro Tass this one the discovery of the Santa Anita meet ¬ ing and a winner here in 206 206The The fastest time on Friday night was registered by another threeyearold E C Moriaritys excellent gray colt Cheyenne Goose An oddson favorite although again attempting to tackle a field of older pacers Cheyenne Goose showed marked superiority to win easily by more than tow lengths over Ludene Scott and Earls Jezebel in 205 The time is remarkable because weather conditions were far from ideal and a strong wind wasnt speed con ¬ ducive either eitherThe The Goose Bay colt was driven to his repeat victory by Malcolm Weaver contract driver for the Kansas stable and trained by veteran Everett Osborn Weaver a 29 year old native of Sandy Creek N Y who now makes his home in Solano Beach Calif is rapidly gain ¬ ing a reputation as one of the best of the younger drivers He has one of the best win percentages at this meeting win ¬ ning five out of nine starts startsReceived Received a clipping from a New York daily in which two harness drivers argue the merits of drivers weights to come to the conclusion that weight is important and therefore a drivers weight should be given oh the official past performance pro ¬ grams In our humble opinion this is an erroneous conclusion and jusfc to make sure checked with some drivers here Ac ¬ cording to such men as Edward Morgan Bob Parkinson and Jimmy Fitzpatrick the weight of the driver has no influence on a horses performance Harness racing conducted under strict rules for a cen ¬ tury has never had any provisions re ¬ garding a drivers weight and it should be assumed that if it had somebody in the course of 100 years would have done some ¬ thing about it
