Juke Box in Cleveland Plain Dealer Line-Up: Son of Maedic to Concede Nine Rivals Weight at Cranwood Park, Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-29

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Juke Box in Cleveland Plain Dealer LineUp LineUpSon Son of Maedic to Concede Nine Rivals Weight at Cranwood Park ParkCRANWOOD CRANWOOD PARK Warrensville Heights Ohio May 28 William Offer mans Juke Box scheduled to make the first start of his sixyear racing career in Ohio was assigned the heaviest impost of 10 nom ¬ inees which accepted the weights in the Cleveland Plain Dealer Handicap main at ¬ traction on the weekend card of eight i races here tomorrow The sevenyearold gelded son of Maedic Lina Clark is asked to shoulder 124 pounds in quest of the win ¬ ners portion of a 3000 purse offered in the one mile and a sixteenth contest contestIn In carrying 124 pounds Juke Box con ¬ cedes from 11 to 21 pounds to his rivals in the feature Listed to oppose the Offerman standardbearer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer are H D Peters Sashay Moon 113 Stephen TJtz King Pine 113 J D Luns fords Shecan 104 Jack Browns Red Flag 105 J P Plynns Great Plains 109 Mrs T M Pruetts My Wash 103 J Tabors Orden 108 and the couplings for the part ¬ nership of Hall Fetzerof Spry Chic and Sierra Ancha each to cHrry 108 pounds The latter is posted on the alsoeligible list listJuke Juke Box is an invader from the Mary ¬ land racing circuit where this spring he tallied a pair of victories He will probably reign a stout choice in the wagering by virtue of his triumph on April 21 at Havre de Grace At the Old Line State course Juke Box scored by a length and a half over his nearest rivals of seven horses competing for a claiming price of 10000 He was a 7 to 1 hazard in the speculation and earned the purse by coming from off the pace to reach command in the stretch and drew away to chalk up a handy victory victoryLast Last season Juke Box conceded weight to such performers as George Gains Forum and others while campaigning on the Chi ¬ cago circuit In accounting for the Haw ¬ thorne Handicap last spring at Sportsmans Park Juke Box was assigned the honored impost of 123 pounds and bested a shifty group of performers as a stout choice with the public in the mile and a sixteenth event eventThe The fans will probably regard Sashay Moon and Great Plains as Juke Box stoutest opponents In the Cleveland Plain Dealer These two finished a head apart at the end of a mile and a sixteenth in the Statler Hotel Handicap last weekend with Sashay Moon getting the decision King Pine was a nottoodistant fourth back of the JPeters colorbearer at the wire wireRed Red Flag the lone threeyearold imthe field easily captured a sixfurlong sprinfrin his only start here and the longec distance asked in this engagement should prove to his liking The son of Johnstown Red Badge chalked up a pair of tallies this spring at Tropical Park going a route of ground The manner in which he scored the first of the pair prompted his present owner to acquire him out of his next start for a claiming price of 9000


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