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VETERANS PURSE TO POTENT * Richards Racer Accounts for Second Straight Victory. ♦ Thunderer Mare Double Rainbow Proves Best in Second Race — Marabou Takes Measure of Love Pirate. ■• COLLINSVILLE, 111., June 14.— The four-year-old Potent, carrying the colors of S. W. Richards, raced to another victory at Fair-mount Park thij afternoon, accounting for the U. S. Veterans Claiming Purse, which was intended as a feature attraction at the Fairmount Jockey Clubs track. Potent scored his second straight victory in a like number of starts at the meeting, having previously accounted for a race of this caliber on the occasion of his lart appearance under colors. P. Reuters Up and Down finished in second place, proving a difficult one for the winner to defeat, while Hec was an easy third, leading Sweepstakes decisively at the finish. Potent was backed with the utmost confidence by the players, and he made up for some of the losses entailed by the backers of favorites. Potent being the first successful favorite to win a purse during the afternoon, the choices in the first four races proving unable to vindicate the support afforded them. The winner was given careful and well-timed riding by the apprentice A. Tiner and. after moving up from the rear of the leaders in the stretch, made his rush at just the right stage to be able to finally overtake and vanquish Up and Down in the final few yards of a hectic and exciting stretch tussle. One hundred or more disabled World War veterans from the U. S. Veterans Hospital at Jefferson Barracks, with members of the hospital staff, were the guests of general manager C. Bruce Head at Fairmount Park this afternoon. In addition to providing transportation facilities for the veterans the entertainment provided for their enjoyment included refreshments served on the club house lawn. The opening race, at five-eighths, for maiden two-year-olds, resulted in an outstanding surprise when Uncles Miss graduated into the winning class when she took the measure of the large field of youngsters which faced the barrier. Jockey W. Taylor was the successful pilot of the winner, which raced in the colors of J. Goedecke, Jr. The Audley Farms Bless Her Heart ran a good race and, though not good enough for the winner, was easily the best for second place. Cleanser, from the R. S. Clark stable, Continued on twentieth page. VETERANS PURSE TO POTENT Continued from first page. was another that performed impressively and, after staying right with the leaders throughout, lasted in a hard drive to take third place. Both Vanquish and Harpoon, which carried the most of the public support, failed to get into the picture, the former because of some ill racing luck encountered in the early stages, which kept Vanquish from racing at his best until in the stretch, when it was too late for him to threaten the leaders. Harpoon showed early speed and was in the lead to the far turn, but he was unable to hold his advantage and met defeat. Love Pirate, favorite in the third race, was another of the choices that fell by the wayside when she was beaten by Marabou and One Way, the best she could do being to account for the short end of the award. Marabou, ridden by jockey W. Smith, was the eventual winner and also carried much support, giving some satisfaction to the backers of the short-priced ones. There were eleven starters for this race and from a good start out of the machine Love Pirate raced into command, while One Way and Hilda Hannibal were in closest pursuit of her and not far back. Marabou was gaining gradually back of the leaders and had a big saving of ground on the inside to his advantage. Entering the stretch One Way began overtaking Love Pirate on the outside, while Smith also moved forward at the same time with Marabou. When challenged Love Pirate tired and it was then that One Way assumed a brief lead, only to quickly lose it again, for Marabou then came with a strong rush outside of One Way and would not be denied, taking the lead and winning with much in reserve. A big upset came in the second race when the favorite Lily Sue again offended badly and The Cocoon, also a well-backed one, proved a dismal failure. W. J. Whalen supplied the winner in Double Rainbow, grouped in the field and suddenly racing in her best form, easily defeating Fallen Leaf, Lily Sue and Nine others. Extremely big odds were posted for the lucky backers of the field borses. Sheriff Seth was the most speedy in the early stages and set a good pace to the stretch turn. He failed to badly outrun any of the close-up contenders, however, and Double Rainbow, after forcing the pace, then passed Sheriff Seth into a safe lead in the stretch and won drawing away. Fallen Leaf also was always prominent and she raced into second place, Lily Sue landing third. Irfaneh and Chancellor, the latter a favorite, engaged in a spirited duel for honors in the fourth race at three-cpiarters, and Irfaneh, well ridden, succeeded in winning by a nose. Chancellor came from behind Irfaneh gamely, wearing the latter down in the final sixteenth, but just missed getting up to win and was placed second. Oregon Fir finished in third place, beating out the tiring and hard ridden Fortunate Girl by a small margin. Irfaneh seemed about to quit a few yards out, but Horvaths persistence kept her going just long enough to outstay Chancellor. A. G. Woodmans The Show Off showed early speed but failed to prove much of a contender.
