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; CRETE STAKES ATTRACTIVE Quintet of Feature Offerings to Be Top Notch Affairs. Entries for Lincoln Fields Stakes Closing May 10 Lincoln Handicap Among the Headliners. CRETE, 111., April 18. Judging from the number of large stables which will take part in the Lincoln Fields meeting, opening on May 30, all of the five stakes which are to be offered promise to be top-notch attractions. Nominations to these five features, one of which is limited to two-year-olds and the other four for three-year-olds and upward, close on May 10, and indications are that all of them will be subscribed to liberally. Some of the stables which are to be represented during the Lincoln Fields meeting, which opens the major racing season in Illinois, are such formidable ones as those of Joseph E. Widener, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, Herbert M. Woolf, Warren Wright, Morris Vehon, James W. Parrish, Nash Bros., John Marsch, M. L. Emerich, Anthony Pelleteri, Howard Oots and many more. All of these establishments are well fortified with horses of stake quality and may be among the largest subscribers to the features to be presented at the Crete course. Each of the stakes is endowed with ,000 in added money. The stake limited to the juveniles is the eleventh running of the Joliet, which is to be decided for the first time at five furlongs. Continued on twenty-fourth page. CRETE STAKES ATTRACTIVE Continued from first page. Heretofore it has been contested over three-quarters and invariably drew a large and representative field of youngsters Among former winners was the splendid filly, Anita Peabody while last years victor was Co-Sport, with which Bert Friend hopes to win this years Kentucky Derby. The first feature on the program down for decision on the first day of the meeting is the Crete Handicap, at six furlongs. It, too, will be run for the eleventh time, previous winners of this event having been such good thoroughbreds as Supremus, Blackwood, Misstep and last year Marica. The Steger Handicap, at seven furlongs, will be renewed as a major feature, while another stake which is to have its eleventh running is the Lincoln Handicap, a test of a mile and a sixteenth. This latter event has brought many fine fields into competition and some of those which carried off earlier runnings of this fixture were Sun Beau, Chance Play, Blackwood, Sweeping Light, Mucho Gusto and Dellor. This race promises once more to be one of the outstanding events of the Lincoln Fields season. FINAL FEATURE. Headlining the card on the last day of the meeting, Saturday, June 25, will be the tenth running of the Francis S. Peabody Memorial Handicap, which honors the memory of the father of Stuyvesant Peabody, president of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club. This event, which was decided over a mile and a quarter until 1935 and reduced to a mile thereafter, will be decided this year over a mile and a furlong. Gallant Knight, Myrtlewood, Mucho. Gusto and Marica are listed among former captors of the Peabody Memorial, Gallant Knight having won it twice. Stake blanks for the Lincoln Fields season already have been sent out to horsemen and racing officials of the track are expecting heavy responses. It was said that if there are enough top flight three-year-olds at Lincoln Fields during the coming meeting another stake designed exclusively for them might be added to the program already outlined.
