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GRADE A HANDICAP TODAY Candidates for ,000 Great Western Handicap to Be Run Saturday to Compete Today. HOMEWOOD, 111., June 4. Racegoers who have already put Saturdays revival of the historic ,000 Great Western Handicap into their engagement books are expected to turn out in force at Washington Park tomorrow afternoon. Tfyree graded handicaps are scheduled for running, the second set that has been on view at the meeting. Numerous candidates for the Great Western will be seen under silks. The Grade A Handicap, at one mile, brings together a field of five good stake performers in the Shandbn Farms Dust Girl, L. T. Whitehills Royal Blunder, Mrs. H. B. Fairbanks Bluebeard, the Brentwood Stables Late Date, and Mrs. John D. Hertz Watch Him. Because they will be carrying this afternoon approximately the weights which racing secretary Charles McLennan has assigned them for the Great Western, a rather accurate line upon their possibilities as winners in Saturdays stake should be furnished by the result. Late Date, top weight with 113 pounds- she must carry 114 Saturday ranked as the overnight favorite. Sle was a badly beaten favorite in the Blue and the Gray Memorial last Thursday, .which was at the same mile and a furlong distance as the Great Western, but the track that day was not to her liking. With better track conditions many horsemen expect her to duplicate her recent victory in the Inaugural Handicap at La-tonia. Three of the lesser eligibles for the Great Western are included in the field of seven named for the Grade B Handicap. They are J. E. Hughes mud-running Silent Shot and the Hertz pair of Count Arthur and Our Reigh. " " T a
