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I I1 — ■ I I I ill I ■ I I1 — ■ I I I ill I ■ APPRENTICE JAMES PRESTON— Rode the longshot, Zing, to victory in yesterdays second race at Arlington Park. First River Downs Turf Course Stakes Saturday Verdant Handicap Expected to Draw My Dust, Places Mintaway RIVER DOWNC, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 20.— Stake-racing over the new River Downs turf course will be inaugurated Saturday, June 22, when a field of three-year-olds and upward vie over one mile on the grass in the first running of the ,000 added Verdant Handicap. The third race in the 1957 River Downs stakes program, the Verdant, will be the initial added-money event staged over the grass at the Queen City plant where one of Americas most beautiful turf courses was constructed last year. Saturdays featm*e stacks up as one of the top offerings of the meeting with all of the nominees accounting for at least one win. so far this year. Smith and Steeles Flying Cosmic, the only filly among the nominees, heads the winners list with six triumphs this campaign. The fast moving daughter of Eye For Eye captured her only outing during the current River Downs meeting moving over the five and one-half furlongs in 1:05. Topweighted at 121 is J. W. Mcllvain and Doug Davis My Dust. The four-year-old bay colt has accounted for two wins and a second during this meeting. After running a close second, to Mintaway in the Memorial Day Handicap, the hard-hitting son of Papa Redbird won the River Downs Handicap and the Buckeye allowance in his last two starts. His time of 1:10% for the six furlongs in the Buckeye is the best registered for that distance at River Downs this meeting. Placer, a four-year-old gelding racing in the silks of E. A. Bischoff, carries second high weight of 118. After a poor showing in the Memorial Day Handicap;, the Dogpatch offspring scored two impressive wins in allowance races in his last two starts. In his last outing Placer covered the mile and one-sixteenth in 1:44%, best time of the meeting at that distance. W. E. Curies Mintaway, winner of the Memorial Day Handicap and the Hamilton County Purse at "this meeting, will carry third high weight of 117 pounds. Both of .his victories came over six furlongs. Among" the other contenders are T. H. Frelinghuysens History Book, winner of 25,745 in his career; Roysie R., a C. E. Gibson color-bearer who has hit the wire on top five times this year; and Potato Chip Farms Marmion, winner bf three races during the current River Downs meeting. *-
