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READY AT FAIRMOUNT PARK ♦ Meeting Opening Saturday Promises to Be Banner One. ♦ ,000 Collinsville Handicap Expected to Attract Record Field on Opening Bay-Great Interest Manifested. ♦ Fairmount Park is in readiness for the opening Saturday of what promises to be the banner meeting so far held over this new and popular course. Over five hundred horses are now in the stables and with the arrival of the shipments which the management has been advised are enroute, more than 650 horses will be registered as ready for the seven or more races scheduled for each day of the thirty-seven-day meeting. C. Bruce Head, general manager of the Fairmount Jockey Club, said yesterday that he was particularly well pleased with the manifestation of interest in the success of the coming meeting by leading business and professional men of the St. Louis metropolitan area. The number of club house memberships so far recorded exceeds those of any previous meeting at Fairmount Park, he said. And it is to be expected that the now large list of members will be considerably augmented by last minute applications. Included in the membership roll are many of the most prominent in social and civic affairs of St. Louis, East St. Louis and adjacent communities. Mr. Head is convinced that the better element is now beginning to extend its support in a substantial way to the high-class racing which has characterized the previous meetings at Fairmount Park. RECORD ENTRY LIST. With over thirty eligibles already on the track, it appears that the number of starters in the ,000 Collinsville Handicap, the feature of Saturdays card, will provide a record for Fairmount stake races. Track authorities are predicting that with favorable track conditions twelve, and possibly fifteen, will be named through the entry box Friday. It is highly probable that these will include the Audley Farms Bobashela and Sister Ship ; George Collins Shasta Lad, the winner of this stake fixture in 1928 ; C. A. Coyles McTin-kle, the runner-up to Shasta Lad last year ; R. L. Bakers Judge Murphy ; R. S. Clarks Dinner Dance and Wisdom ; W. M. Cains William P. ; Charles Graffagninis Hypnotism ; J. D. Grants The Padre ; Wm. J. Henflings False Pride, holder of the Fairmount Park track record of 1 :05 for five and one-half furlongs ; S. C. Hunts Gold Mint or Uluiniu ; V. Sutros Greenock ; E. McCuans Germaine Chauvelot ; C. W. Moores Last Thought ; V. H. Perrys Nichelson, and J. Cal Milams Lucky Hit. The Paradise Stock Farm has three eligibles, Sylphona, Sweepsora and Brushing, here and will start one or more of them. Harass, joint holder with the lamented Irish Pal of the Fairmount Park track record of 1 :38%, has been named by Sundheimer and Pershall along with Sterling Silver, and B. B. Rice has Polygamia ready for the race. Of those named all are now at Fairmount Park with the exception of Lucky Hit, and in a telegram to Mr. Head yesterday, owner J. C. Milam advised that he was shipping his stable from Churchill Downs to arrive at Fairmount Park Friday. OFFICIALS ARRIVE. Judges Brownell Berryman and Robert S. Shelley arrived Wednesday and immediately went about their duties in the racing secretarys office. Pat C. Galliger has been here for the past week and secretary J. B. Campbell is expected from Pimlico Friday nigit. John Kissane has been in charge of the registration of the horses for several days and all those now here are properly recorded. Starter Wm. Snyder, with his assistants, conduct his school at the starting barrier every morning. Trainer Clyde Van Dusen has advised general manager Head that his namesake and the Kentucky Derby winner will make his next start in the Fairmount Derby, Saturday, June 1. Definite advice from trainer Charles E. Boots Durnell, states that Panchio will also be a starter, and similar advice has been had from owner Earl Chaffee regarding Naishapur. Mr. Head has been in telegraphic correspondence with Walter J. Salmon, the owner of Dr. Freeland, winner of the Preak-ness, as well as with other eastern owners regarding the possibility of their shipping their good horses to Fairmount Park for the 5,000 Derby. Head said yesterday he was confident that the Derby field would be a good one and comprise the best three-year-olds now racing.
