Sun Again Gets Honor Assignment in Phoenix: Expect Askmenow to be Starting Top Weight Under 120 Pounds, Daily Racing Form, 1944-04-11

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, | , I : j J I | | | I I I | | i j j 1 | I I I I | I i j I | Sun Again Gets Honor Assignment in Phoenix Expect Askmenow to Be Starting Top Weight Under 120 Pounds LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 10.— Sun Again, Calumet Farms swift-running son of Sun Teddy now awaiting the opening of the Maryland season at Pimlico, was assigned the top impost of 126 pounds for the ,000 added Phoenix Handicap, opening attraction of Keenelands transferred meeting at Churchill Downs Saturday. Mar-Kell, a stablemate, and Hal Price Headleys Askmenow follow next under 120 pounds and, as the leading mare of 1943 also is at the old hilltop course, Askmenow will carry the top starting impost. This daughter of Menow, an absentee from winter racing, has been training famously. She was recently transferred here from Keeneland. Best Seller and Bless Me, two Bradley-i bred and former carriers of the white and green colors, will shoulder 118 and 116 pounds, respectively, and others alloted the same assignment of Bless Me are Calumet "s Son of Peace and Headleys Anticlimax, who upset the applecart in winning the 1943 edition of the Washington Handicap. Ocean Wave, another Calumet performer and now on the farm, received a burden of 115 pounds. Handicapper Fred Burton placed Alfred Parkers By Jimminy and Calumets Pen-! sive, both Derby candidates*, at 110 pounds each. The Phoenix weights follow: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Sun Again 126 Bold Captain 110 Mar-Kell 120 Pensive 110 Askmenow 120 Col. Teddy 109 Best Seller 118 Oleana 108 Son of Peace 116 Roman Sox 108 Anticlimax 116 Bull Weed 107 Bless Me 116 Bold Style 107 Ocean Wave 115 Corona Corona 106 Amber Light 114 Traffic Court 102 Samborombon 113 Sugar Man 100 By Jimminy 111 Play Bob 100 Woodford Lad 110


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