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FIFTEEN SEEK 0,000 PRIZE , Frontier Handicap at Detroit Saturday Will Attract Big Field Whopper Works One Mile in Blinkers in Preparation for Big Race DETROIT, Mich., June 24. From present indications, a field of fifteen will be under colors in the 0,000 added Frontier Handicap, which will be offered for the first time by the Detroit Racing Association as the feature for Saturday. I. J. Collins Paradisical, which returned to competition with a victory in yesterdays secondary attraction, earned a place among the probable field when she went out a mile after that race in 1:41. For the past two seasons the good daughter of In Memoriam has been a strong factor in Detroit stake racing. A slight injury soon after her arrival here caused trainer Al Miller to let up on the mare, but she appears to have regained the form that carried her to victories in the Kentucky Oaks, Pontchar-train Handicap and other prominent fixtures. She gets in the Frontier under 104 pounds and will have the services of Bert Thornton, who directed her in yesterdays triumph. Others expected to oppose Hal Price Head-leys Whopper, which had his final preparation this morning over the mile and three-sixteenths, are Azucar, Infantry, War Emblem, Sir Jim James, Cardarrone, First Entry, Gyral, Polar Flight, Professor Paul, Stocks, War Minstrel, Siam and Carl S. The three-year-old brigade holds a strong hand,- for with War Minstrel, an invader Continued on thirty-ninth page. FIFTEEN SEEK 0,000 PRIZE Continued from first page. from Chicago, and Carl " S., which finished third in the Wolverine, this division has another strong eligible in the Bomar Stables Siam, which, won the Pontchartrain Stakes. As to pe expected; they are the low -weights of the field, with War Minstrel and Siam carrying ninety-eight pounds each and Carl S. the feather of ninety-five pounds. Ovea fast track and equipped with blinkers, Whopper went a mile in 1:43, breezing. He had Sandy Boy again as his work companion, but the mammoth son of Pharamond IX was full of run and he went about his task in easy fashion. He was timed the quarter in :26, half mile in :51. and the three-quarters in 1:17. Sandy Boys time was 1:43. Blue Ridge Farms Cardarrone also had nis final drill and he went a mile in 1:45. The sonkof Kentucky Cardinal went along at aiv even pace, covering the quarter in :26, half mile M ,:52 and .three-quarters in 1:1and First Entry breezed a half pattern :50 and was t!he only other eligible to be called upon I this morning. ,
