OUT OF NEXT TW0 RACE
“Overtrick A Little Tired” (XZ Press Asm —Copyright i NEW YORK. May 26. The champion American pacer, Overtrick, has now been withdrawn from the two remaining events of the international pacing senes at Y’onkers Raceway, leaving the field wide open for the New Zealand champion Cardigan Bay. Mr John Patterson, trainerdriver of Overtrick. said the top four-year-old had come -a little tired" out of his winning clash with Cardigan Bay in the first of the three-race series last Thursday and it had been decided to give the gelding some extra rest. The decision came as a shock to Yonkers officials and to trotting enthusiasts. The New York “Daily News” said Cardigan Bay was now “the horse to beat" in the 64.000 dollar (about £28.566 > Good Time Championship at Yonkers on Thursday night. Cardigan Bay has been quoted at odds of 8/5 for Thursday’s big race over one mile and a half, and was fancied by most trainers and drivers at Yonkers in a poll conducted by the “News" His trainer-driver. Stanley Dancer, said: "Cardigan Bay is real good right now. He came out of last week's race very well. I look to Meadow Skipper to be our main rival."
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30452, 28 May 1964, Page 4
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