Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-19
Endowment, Paying
S51, Runs Second
In 100000 Feature
BY the Associated Press

1NGLEWOOD. Calf, July ID.
- Kentucky bred Lights Up,
never far off the pace, upset the
favored Calumet entry headed
by A Clean and Fleet Bird and
captured the 100000 Sunset
Handicap at Hollywood Park to-
day.
Endowment, a longshot, was
second in the field of 10 and
Fleet Bird was third.
Racing before a crowd of more
than $4,000, Lights Up, owned
by c. H. Jones and Sons Of Long
Beach, Calf, beat out Clifford
Mooer's Endowment in a head
to-head battle down the stretch.
Jockey Euclid LIE Blanc, aboard
Fleet Bird, fought to get up at
the end, but could not make
the grade.
Time Is Fast 2:41b.
The distance was a long. hard
mile and five Fights. and the time
was a fast 2:41 Is.
A big cry went up when the
prices were flashed on the board
Lights Up paid $3.50, $11.60
and $40; Endowment, $51 and
$3.50. and Fleet Bird, $2.10.
Lights Up is the son OF q
handicap favorite of another
year, Eight Thirty.
The victory was worth $50, 400
out of gross purse OF $105, $50.
Veteran Jackie Westrope rode
the 6-year-old chestnut winner
for his first major triumph in
California in many a day.
The victory atoned for West
rope in a measure the d1sap-
pointing race turned in week
ago by another of his mounts,
Royal Vale, in the 100000 Gold
Cup Handicap.
Calumet Entry Choice.
Lights Up was given some sup
port, but the CalumetS' Fleet
Bird, A Clean and Dixie Lad
went postward the odds-on bet
ting selection. Harry Browns
Goose Khal and the King
Ranch's Rejected were the next
best liked.
Mooers' Endowment was the
longest thing on the board, and
his payoff for the place position
the highest in the IA editions of
the Sunset Handicap.
AS it turned out, Dixie Lad
and Goose Khal ran each other
to pieces in the 'pace-setting
fght-as Calumet wanted. But
when it came time to take over,
neither LIE Blanc on Fleet Bird
nor Johnny Longden on A Clean
could take over. .... ....
Instead, it was Lights Up, car
,rying his moderate ia pounds
with ease. who took charge, and
it was the lightweight Endow-
nant, with 16 pounds and Ray
York aboard, who almost wrecked
the Setup.
First Win This Year.
Lights Up showed some of the
fine form he displayed in Cali
fornia in 1852, and raced back
to his triumph in the well-known
Travera as a 3-year-old, as
veil as his second to Middle
ground in the Belmont the same
'.a' 1e cost the Jones, family
$4,000.
1t was Lights Ups first victory
this year but he showed a chal-
lenge last week in racing fourth
to Royal Serenade in the Gold
Cup.
Longden held A Clean, the
fllly, last for most of the race,
but the youngster couldn't come
up when demanded.
Fleet Bird, high weighted at
100, likewise seemed sluggish
when the real racing got under
way in the final furlong.
Rejected, at 100, was never
much of a threat. and even
fourth place in the purse money
went to an outsider, English
bred Nearque II.
Second, third and fourth was
worth $4,000, $4,000 and $1O,-
900.
The order of finish behind the
first four: A Clean. Goose Khal,
Rejected, Stormy Cloud, Hull
Down and Dixie Lad.
Today'S official attendance was
49,787 and the betting handle
$3.516,881. The same day IN
1852 had 50,514 attendance and
tina handle was 81 454 230