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HOMEWOODS FIRST FEATURE » Washington Handicap Boasts Notable Field of Eligibles. » Mr. Sponge Probable Top Weight for Inaugural Headliner — Derby Eligibles May Also Start. • The feature offering for the Washington Park meeting May 22 is the Washington Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, over the six furlongs course. This sprinting affair will bring out not only the best of the older division of handicap horses in the country but will see several of the star three-year-olds intended as starters in the Worlds Fair American Derby. Such speedy horses of the older division named for the Washington Handicap include Mr. Sponge, Polydorus, Waylayer, Marmion, Don Leon, Burning Up, Cathop, Gift of Roses, Footmark, Gold Step, Wotan, Jimmy Moran, Don Romiro, Springsteel, Big Brand, Sobieha, Evergold, Minton, Trin-chera and Chimney Sweep. Mr. Sponge is one of the fastest sprinters on the American turf in many years. He is at his peak and, because of two of his races over the Tropical Park course at Miami last winter, in which he ran five and one-half furlongs in 1:04%, he probably will have top weight assigned. Polydorus is another fast horse in the handicap. He will be in fine form, according to reports. Polydorus will fly the colors of A. Bartelstein, Chicago turfman. Other stellar sprinters are A. A. Baronis Way-layer, Mrs. R. M. Eastmans Cathop, Elm-tree Stables Footmark, Mrs. Sheldon Fairbanks Gold Step, Mose Goldblatts Wotan and Jimmy Moran, Keeneland Studs Don Romiro, S. W. Labrots Springsteel, Le Mar Stock Farms Morsel, Thomas H. McCaffreys Big Brand, Northway Stables Sun-dot, Shandon Farm Stables Evergold and Minton, and the Three Ds Stables Trin-chera. Among the prominent candidates for the American Derby eligible to start in the Washington Handicap are Head Play, Brokers Tip, Trace Call, Fingal, Isaiah, Pot au Brooms, Red Whisk, Quel-Jeu, Sun Archer and Bamboula. No doubt several of these American Derby, aspirants will be seen at the post in the opening feature at Washington Park. Stables are arriving daily at Washington Park and by the time the meeting opens it is expected there will be 1,000 thoroughbreds fit to race installed at the Homewood Continued on twenty-second page. HOMEWOODS FIRST FEATURE Continued from first page. course. Reservations have been made for the stable of Max Hirsch for ten. Incidentally, Mr. Hirsch saddled Gusto, winner of last years American Derby. The Greentree Stable western division has engaged stall room for fifteen, Audley Farm Stable fifteen, E. R. Bradley twenty, C. V. Whitney western division twenty-seven, W. J. Salmon fourteen, Dixiana twenty-five, and Stuyvesant Peabody fourteen. Regret was expressed by friends and acquaintances in the passing of Charley Racine, veteran turfman, at his home in Beverly Hills, a Chicago suburb. Mr. Racine owned a stable of horses back in the days of old Washington Park, Harlem and Hawthorne. He expired suddenly in one of his poultry houses Wednesday night. He had been engaged in the poultry business for years. W. S. Kilmer wired general manager C. W. Hay he would ship fifteen horses to Washington Park at the conclusion of the Pimlico meeting. He has two candidates for the Worlds Fair American Derby, Sun Archer and Dark Winter. Roscoe Goose, who trains the horses of Laffoon and Yeiser, Kentucky turfmen, plans to ship a stable of seventeen at the conclusion of the Churchill Downs meeting. Bert Williams and Charles Van Meter will have nineteen horses ready to race at Washington Park.
