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Eight Accept Weights In Handicap at Ascot Royal Dasher Takes Up 123, One Pound More Than Olympia Blend By W. A. CRUSE ASCOT PARK. Cuyahoga Falls. Ohio, May 10. — The first of the 10-race programs, will be offered here at the Ascot Park Saturday. The additional race for the final three Saturdays of the meeting are to makeup for the races lost because of the cancelled racing programs earlier in the meeting when the weather conditions made the track unsafe. The ,J00 Beacon Journal Handicap holds the spotlight and the ,000 Molly McCarthy Handicap is an excellent cofeature. The Beacon-Journal is designed for three-year-olds and older horses at six and one-half furlongs, and the Molly McCarthy is for the same age group but at a mile and nine-sixteenths. Eight, including a coupling, accepted the weights assigned the Beacon Journal and it looms as one of the most interesting contests at the meeting to date. The top impost of 123 pounds will be carried by R. Fischers Royal Dasher. Next in consideration is J. Davidsons Olympia Blend with 122 pounds. The above pair concedes 15 to 16 pounds respectively to the lightweight of Continued m Page Fifty-Seven Eight Accept Weights In Handicap at Ascot Royal Dasher Takes Up 123, One Pound More Than Olympic Blend Continued from Page One the field, E. Hornicks Match Play who has 107 pounds. Royal Dasher appears deserving of this allotment. The good looking Southern Pride gelding carried 120 pounds for his three-length victory in the ,000 Akron Handicap. He was on top from start to finish of that seven furlongs affair which he and jockey H. Mafale negotiated in 1:27. He was also victorious in a previous affair, one of the better allowance events at about four and one-half furlongs, and was also a strong contender in one of the earlier features. The latter affair more or less showed the "Dashers" dislike for the "off" strip. Olympia Blend, the four-year-old altered son of Olympia, has accomplished about everything asked of him in his outings over this course. Last Wednesday, in the Bain-bridge Purse, a speed test at the Ascot Course distance, he came from off the pace to be a neck the best of D. W. Sheltons Henrob, regarded as one of the fastest sprinters on the grounds. He carried 119 pounds and it would appear that was the conditioner for this event.
