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On the Trot By MORRIE KURLANSKY : Red McKlyo Gifted With Big Heart Beissinger Shares Cheers in Circle Riegle, Ohioans Enjoy Great Evening MAYWOOD PARK, Maywood, 111., May 14. Red McKlyo, Everett Sherrys indomitable campaigner, seemingly doesnt feel the burden of his 11 years and, while the big chestnut gelding can match strides with the best of his gait here, there is hardly a horse on the grounds that has more courage than this veteran pacer. Driven in all his five starts at this meeting by leading sulky pilot, Howard Beissinger, Red McKlyo returned to the racing wars on opening night after almost a two-year layoff and finished second to Laura Jane Tryax, beaten but a head in 2:18 over a heavy surface. The following week, he made light of CC-class company and romped home in 2:14 over a slow track. On April 29, after being moved in class B, the Silent Grattan gelding raced the last quarter head to head with the much-improved Easter Bunny, this five-year-old stallion literally getting the nod at the wire in 2 : 07 flat. Five days later. Red McKlyo outsprinted the speedster, Peggy Barnes, for the lead although coming from No. 8 post position, to garner his second victory of the season in 2:07. Having: drawn the pole for Wednesdays race, a mile event .for B-cIass pacers listed in the first division, Red McKlyo went to the post as an 8 to 5 choice, with Mary Jane Clark regarded as his most formidable opponent. If there is a pacer that .can leave from the gate, it is this Congressional mare, who paced the mile in 2:06J6 at Foxboro, Mass., last year, as well as winning at Yonkers Raceway in good time. As expected, Mary Jane shot to the front, and rounding the clubhouse her driver, Roy Riegle, opened up by two lengths, reaching the quarter pole in :30 and the half-mile in 1:02, which is about as fast as any horse has traveled here this season. At the three-quarters 1:33, Mary Jane was still two lengths ahead of Red McKlyo, who, in turn, was about that much in front of Buckeye Grattan, with the rest of the field hopelessly beaten off. Turning for home, Mary Jane had hardly lost any of her advantage and almost everybody took a clear-cut victory of the Roy Riegle mare for granted. .Beissinger and "Red," however, had not given up and, from the sixteenth pole on, this admirable team inched its way toward the leader. Thirty feet from the wire, they were on even terms with Mary and Roy and it was Reds apparently inexhaustible energy that gained a nose verdict over an extremely game foe. A round of applause greeted horse and driver on their return to the winners circle. Before the night was over, however, the losing driver, Riegle, got ample consolation by virtue of a fine performance by the four-year-old pacing colt, Trigg County, who, temporarily conceding the lead in the BB pace to Dale Wingay with C. F. Rumley up, came again in the stretch to get a nose decision over the Illinois-owned pacer. It was the second victory for Riegle Wednesday, the Ohio teamster guiding Trigg Countys stable-mate, Elzie Hanover, to victory in a three-year-old pace. It also was a great night for Ohio horsemen Wednesday. Besides the Riegle victories, there was the impressive performance of Clever Trinket, trotting companion to Clever Tee, both horses owned by Ransom G. Yeager of Akron, Ohio, and trained by the Buckeye trainer, Earl Roush. This four-year-old Clever Hanover filly, winner of her last two race;; here, annexed a CC-class trot at the surprisingly long straight price of 1 for and e-turned to her barn with a new mark, a creditable 2:09. . . Prior to the regular program, 30 class trotters met in a non-wagering event scheduled to qualify green performers. The winner of this race, which carried a 00 purse, was Sir Gallon, a four-year-old black gelding by the Ham-bletonian victor, Bill Gallon, from the Vol-omite mare, The Charmer. Lawrence Greene led all the way with his full brother to the good pacer, Charming Bill 2:05, owned by Paul L. Nelson of Spring Valley Ohio, to wiri in 2:18. Only yesterday we mentioned that Wilbur Long apparently has an option on either the first or second race of the night. Well, he again drove a winner in the double event on Wednesday, this time popping out with the longshot 28 to 1 Cavalier, a four-year-old pacing colt, who was beaten a total of 32 lengths in two previous starts here. However, four horses were involved in a jam on the backstr etch when Miss Havens Ray Wagner made a break and the even-money favorite, Bonnie Prince Harry Burright and Linda Abbedale Jim Berry and Little Rock MelFitzpatrick,
