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GARY PURSE AT HOMEWOOD Thomas Curran Memorial Stakea Candidates Meet in Test Race Today at Washington Park HOMEWOOD 111 June 5 With seven of the ten named for the race eligible for Saturdays renewal of the 2500 added Thomas Curran Memorial Stakes for juve ¬ nile colts and geldings the result of the Gary Purse tomorrows feature at Washing ¬ ton Park will have considerable bearing on the field for Saturdays stake Curran can ¬ didates entered for the Gary are Stay Galla clay Light Brook Leonard Wilson Tear Out Celebrant and Chief Evergreen with several of them particularly Stay and Gafla clay well regarded in forecasts for Satur ¬ days race raceThe The Gary will he decided over five fur ¬ longs which is a sixteenth of a mile under the Curran Slakes distance with Stay Itebn ard Wilson and the nonCurran eligible Spicate carrying top weight of 115 Their imposts are five pounds heavier than pack ¬ ages to be shouldered by each of the other Curran Stakes nominees all maidens and three above Kissinbug and Blue Lillian both winners and as fillies not eligible for the weekend feature featureStay Stay the probable favorite for tomorrows race is owned by C C Van Meter of Ken ¬ tucky Mrs Frank C Mars Chicago enthut siast whose Milky Way Farm colors were introduced earlier in the season has in Gallaclay one of the stronger contenders for honors in the Gary and a likely represent tative for Saturdays stake stakeE E R Bradleys Born Happy A B Galla hers Chief Cherokee Mrs W S Kilmers Try Sympathy John Marschs Bubbling Mate Nash Brothers Ross and Sula J E Wideriers Great Haste and Race Craft also owned by Van Meter are other potential contenders for Curran Memorial Stakes honors Run annually since 1929 this Washington Park race has been won in order starting from the year of its inception by Caruso Schooner Proteus Projectile and New Deal
