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PLUCKY PLAY SURE STARTER Church Itacer Considered Certain Competitor1 in Francis S Peabody Memorial Handicap Saturday HOMEWWOD IlLj June 12 Plucky Play the sevenyearold owned by Norman Church that has earned the title of giant killer by his surprising victories in Chicago stakes in other seasons is an almost certain starter in the 2500 added Francis S Peabody Memorial Handicap at a mile and a quar ¬ ter which will be Saturdays stake feature at Washington Park Word that the horse now quartered at Arlington would be sent to Homewood for the fixture was received today by racing secretary William Shelley ShelleyPlucky Plucky Play figures to be top weight of the starting field with his impost of 118 pounds because C V Whitneys Equipoise actual top weight at 134 is not expected to go to the post Others that seem likely to go to the post Saturday judging from the declarations of their owners and from their morning trials are Wood F Axtons Frank Ormont D S Gordons Navanod Jack How ¬ ards Marmion and Ebony Lady A B Letelliers Sazerac Jake Lowensteins Alad ¬ dins Dream William Sachsenmaiers Pot au Broom L M Seversons Spicsoh A G Tarns Clarify and Blessed Event and T C Wordens Mr Bun In the five previous runnings of the Pea body Memorial Plucky Play has never been a factor but because his inconsistency has frequently made Chicago handicappers let him in light he scored two of the greatest local upsets of recent seasons when he beat Sun Beau in the 1931 Hawthorne Handicap under a twentyfive pound pull in the weights and Equipoise in the 1932 Arlington Handicap under a weight advantage of twentythree pounds poundsPlucky Plucky Play has otherwise proved him ¬ self a horse of class to Chicago racegoers by beating such racers as Faireno and Miate under scale weight in the 1932 Haw ¬ thorne Gold Cup by running third to Sun Beau in the same stake in 1931 and finish ¬ ing third to Sun Beau in the 1931 Arlington Handicap Plucky Play was unplaced in one start at Churchill Downs and three at De ¬ troit this season but because of his past record must take up a heavy impost
