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GEORGE ALEXANDRA Led the Sports ¬ mans Park trainers with nine wins Sportsmans Has Attendance Gain Average 11 580 Per Day at Turnstiles 854722 Mutuel3 Handle Average for 19Day Meet Fieselman Again Top Rider RiderBy By Staff Correspondent CorrespondentAlthough Although encountering cold and unsea ¬ sonable weather on several days of its meeting Sportsmans Park showed an in ¬ crease in attendance for its 19day spring season ending last Saturday Statistics compiled by DAiihr RACING FORM show a daily average attendance of 11580 up 43 per day over the corresponding meeting in 1957 1957The The mutuel handle averaged 854722 per day which was only 7090 off the 1957 figure Opening Day April 19 saw a new firstday attendance and mutuel handle with 22231 fans wagering 1318077 The attendance mark bettered the previous high by some 4500 while the play was up 71551 71551The The April 19 opening day crowd of 22 231 was the highest for the meeting and closing day brought about the laest mutuel handle with 1415840 passing through the machines machinesSilver Silver State from the E K Carey sta ¬ ble was the leading moneywinning horse of the meeting with earnings of 16750 The War Relic Betty Johnson sixyear old was victorious in the Inaugural Handi ¬ cap and finished second in both the Thomas D Nash Memorial and the Sports ¬ mans Park Handicap HandicapRacetracker Racetracker Nash Memorial Winner WinnerRacetracker Racetracker from Emil Denemark Jrs stable and winner of the Nash Memorial linked second high with 10750 followed by William Hal Bishops Bernburgoo vic toriousin the Sportsmans Park Handicap with 9750 9750The The Emil Denemark Jr stable led the owners with 33400 The Chicagoowned unit won eight races was second eight times and third on five occasions E K Carey was second with 22075 followed by Marion H VanBerg with 19610 19610Jack Jack Fieselman who led the riders at the 1957 24day fall meeting with 34 suc ¬ cesses was the leader at this session of 19 days with J52 winners His percentage likewise was the highest he having accept ¬ ed 150 mounts for 21 per cent winners William Collier was second with 19 wins and Anthony Skoronski third with 18 18Apprentice Apprentice Robert Nono turned in a unique feat the last week of the meeting when he rode the winners of the Daily Double races on two different occasions On May 5 his mounts paid 26860 in this form of wagering while on May 10 the return was 11860 11860George George Alexandra trainer of the Dene Denemark mark stable was the leading conditioner conditionerwith with nine winners Clifford Scott and E B BSmith Smith tied for second with eight winners winnersapiece apiece apieceSportsmans Sportsmans Park statistics follow April 19 to May 20 79 Days Gross distribution 573900 573900Net Net distribution 573900 573900Daily j Daily average net distribution 3020526 Attendance 220015 220015Daily Daily average attendance 11580 11580Mutue Mutue handle 1623 719 719Daily Daily average mutuel handle 854722 Leading MoneyWinning Owners Owner 1st 1stDenemark 2nd 3rd 3rda rd Won Denemark E Jr 8 a 5 33400 Carey E K 2 2VanBerg 5 4 22075 VanBerg M H 6 6Grosfield 3 6 19610 Grosfield E J 6 6McDcnnel K 13555 McDcnnel R T 6 6Gerber 4 13305 Gerber G 4 4WHBishop 2 11950 WHBishop StaJnc 1 1 11015 Fein V D 4 4ThompkinsMrMrs 0 10115 ThompkinsMrMrs 3 5 9565 Hall O 4 1 8640 Leading MoneyWinning Horses HorsesHorse Horse 1st 2nd 3rd Won Silver State 1 2 1 16750 16750Racetracker Racetracker 110 10750 10750Bernburgoo Bernburgoo 100 9750 9750Gold Gold Key 2 0 0 8450 8450Flaming Flaming Blue 300 7865 7865Miss Miss Rowdy 3 1 2 6665 6665Sir Sir Tribal 100 6500 6500Black Black Powder 3 0 0 6045 6045Bay Bay Boy 2 01 5550 5550Roses Roses Gem 120 5150 Leading Winning Jockeys Jockey Mts 1st 2nd 3rd Unp PC Fieselman J 150 32 26 24 68 21 Collier W 124 19 14 20 71 15 Skoronski A 124 18 20 12 74 15 CraigH 131 15 19 21 76 11 Nono R 59 J2 4 3 40 20 Sellers J 98 10 13 12 63 10 Vandenborre D 69 10 4 9 46 14 Richardson L 84 9 8 3 59 11 Ward PA 81 9 87 5711 5711jessopjDfrtKtot92cH jessopjDfrtKtot92cH fa a Uti3 62 os Leading Winning Trainers TrainersTrainer Trainer Wins Trainer Wins WinsAlexandra Alexandra G 9 VanBerg M H 6 6Scott Scott C 8 Ippolito 8 i iSmithrEB SmithrEB 8 Mahpney EG i iCilio Cilio A 6 Mavros A J McDonnel R T 6 Pitt H J L LThe The following feature races were decided Stake Date Winner Value ValueInaugural Inaugural Handicap April 19 Silver SilverState State 9750 9750Spring Spring Handicap April 26 Sir Tribal 6500 6500Thomas Thomas D Nash Memorial Handi ¬ cap May 3 Racetracker 9750 Sportsmans Park Handicap May 10 Bernburgoo 9750 9750The The percentage of winningfavorites was below normal as shown in the subjoined tabulationtNumber tabulationt Number of races 171 171Winning Winning favorites 50 50Percentage Percentage of winning favorites 29 29Dead Dead heats 1 for win
