On the Trot: Fox Vally Makes Auspicious Start Curtis, Huber Divide Top Honors Ft. Dearborn Looms as Great Race, Daily Racing Form, 1957-06-05

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On the Trot I Br MORRIE KTJRLANSKY ! Fox Valley Makes Auspicious Start Curtis, Huber Divide Top Honors Ft. Dearborn Looms as Great Race SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, 111., June 4. The Fox Valley Trotting Club premiere at Sportsmans Park, favored by fine, mild spring weather, attracted a sizable crowd to the popular five-eighths Cicero ovl. and the wagering on the nine-race program consequently surpassed the 00,000 mark for an auspicious start of the co-ordinated 78-night Fox Valley-Chi-;ago Downs session. "Clarence Curtis and Lou Huber Jir., the lat ter returning to Chicago after an absence of several seasons, divided top honors of the evening as both trainers won two races and additionally had a second and third place finish, respectively, to their credit. - The featured Inaugural Pace, an early closer for 15-class pacers, on account. of 22 entries was split and raced in two divisions, with ,750 distributed in each mile dash. In the first section, Dr. J. Howard Youngs four-year-old Ensign Hanover filly, Ludene Scott, a full sister to the free-for-aller, Plutocrat, scored an impressive victory in 2:07, while Ross Abbe, with Clarence Curtis at the reins, and the New York invader, Chalidale Jewel, driven by Leon Boring, garnered sectfhd and third money, respectively. Lois Scott, shipped here from Detroit for this race, set the. pace for more than three-quarters ofthe way, tired in the final sixteenth, but held on to save fourth-place money from the surprisingly good Mr. Friday. In the second division, Frisco Denison, recent conqueror of Ludene Scott in a classified event at May wood Park, "made it two straight with a 2:01 y5 score over the amazingly consistent Rocky Win, another Detroit invader. Cheyenne Goose, one of the better three-year-olds on the grounds and an aspirant for Saturdays 5,000 Fort Dearborn Pace, acquitted himself in fine style against his 10 older rivals to outfinish the two-minute star, King Creed, for third place. Sunny Hill Chris, the good Court Jester stallion owned by the Sunny Hill Stable, in his first start in almost a year showed fine early speed, but had not much left when the real racing began at the head of Sportsmans Parks quarter.-long homestretch; Huber Jr.? well-known Ohio trainer remembered in Chicago for some outstanding victories with the trotter, Bomb Sight, at May wood Park a few seasons ago, annexed the first race of the young meeting with Fleet Hal, a three-year-old full brother to the two -minute pacer, Express Hal, and returned in the fourth race to chalk up an easy triumph with the good Congressional colt, Congress Hal. The big event here this week end will be the 5,000 Fort Dearborn Pace. With such leading three-year-olds as Amigo Hal, Devastator, Great Adios and Silk Byrd looming as probable .starters, the rich mile dash will develop into another championship test for the countrys leading sophomore pacers. However, this quartet of colts most likely will face their sternest opposition in the fillies, Maxines Dream and Golden Ella. Maxines Dream, one of three pacing fillies in the history of the sulky sport to acquire a record of 2:00 or better as two-year-old, most likely would have been the leader of her age and sex group in almost any year but 1956 when she had the rather tough luck to be the contemporay of such an outstanding juvenile as Good Counsel 1:584. In spite of this, Maxines Dream gained wide admiration for pacing prowess. Owned by the Clearview Stables, Maxines Dream is no stranger at " Sportsmans Park as she won a heat in the Breeders Filly Stakes here last season during Grand Circuit week, the other heat going to the splendid Missouri filly, Golden Ella, a recent impressive winner at Maywood Park and an aspirant for the Fort Dearborn. Chicagoland fans will welcome the return of the public stable trained by Earl Roush. The Ohio-owned outfit arrived yesterday from New York, where the stables pacing ace, Easy Adios, was a successful participant in fast-class events. In 10 starts at Yonkers Raceway this spring, Easy Adios was twice first and five times second to earn the substantial sum of 6,525. His latest victory was registered only three nights ago when he defeated Top Deck and Steward Lad in 2:03. Other members of the Roush menage are Easy Adios sister, Miss Adios; the pacing gelding, Valax, a winner of two races at Yonkers, and the trotters, Lady Keith and Waycharm. Art Berry, Fort Dodge, Iowa, owner-trainer, arrived with 12 trotters and pacers from winter training: quarters . . . The rumor heard on the backstretch yesterday that Forrest Burright, owner of Copper Head, Dustyettc and Deep Lucky, in charge of trainer Jack Hankins, had died at his Oregon, 111., home, fortunately turned out to be unfounded. However, he is still suffering from the consequence of a recent heart attack. His wife, the well-known Grandma Burright, is also on the list on account of a broken hip sustained in a freak accident.


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