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Nine Oppose Royal Witch j In Former Feature Today TodayRegard Regard Midnight O Tfie Snapper On Tour Whos Joy Formidable FormidableBy By DEAN WILLIAMS WILLIAMSFONNER FONNER PARK Grand Island Nebr May 12 Ivan Norris Royal Witch heads a field of ten in the Valko Mens Purse Tuesday at Fonner Park Those entered under the allowance conditions to chal ¬ lenge Royal Witch are Whos Joy Karen Arthene Midnight Q Quiz Bang On Tour I The Snapper Miss Rissie Flaxy Sue and 1 OTulip I j The Norris mare was only beaten two and onehalf lengths in the Columbus j Handicap Though Royal Witch was fifth in that race the quality of company she was engaging made it one of her top ef ¬ forts of the year j jNorman Norman Abdouchs Midnight O will be making his third start of the season in Tuesdays feature The speedy son of Royal Red was unplaced in his first start of thel j season He readily made amends by fin ishing second to the crack sprinter Truck la This marked show of improvement should make him difficult to beat beatThe The Snapper at one time one of the top Nebraskabred sprinters has returned to top form and is certain to be hard to de1 feat in the Valko Mens Purse He fin ¬ ished second and third in his last two starts He suffered a great deal of poor racing luck in the first of these two starts and finished third to Barn Dancer In his last effort he was second to May Whirley WhirleyOn On Tour and Whos Joy have had some good efforts to their credit to make them among the horses to beat
