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FINALE AT FAIRMODNT Handicap Main Event on Scheduled Card of Eight Races. Seven Swift Sprinters to Compete Over Six Furlongs ,000 Prise Attraction for Handicappers. COLLINSVILLE, 111., Oct. 7 With a continuation of the perfect weather conditions which has prevailed during the current meeting and with the racing strip at its best for the close of the fall session of racing at Fairmount Park, a large crowd should be in attendance to view the program of eight races to be offered Saturday, and which features a number of events that should be productive of much interest. The feature race of the day, carded as the sixth, which is a handicap, has drawn a field of seven speedy sprinters which will vie for the 1,200 purse over a distance of six furlongs. All of the contestants in the principal event have tested the local oval and have either met defeat or tasted victory over one another while competing during the current meeting. Because of the fact that most of the entrants in the feature have previously met, the race narrows down to four principal contenders, namely Fairflax and Pin Money, each high weighted at 118 pounds, and which as an entry will run in the interests of Frank Seremba; Prince Argo, which is next in line of weights with 116 pounds, and Unassisted, which has been imposted at 113 pounds. HERNANDEZ ENTRY. Of the other three entrants in the event the weights scale down from 102 pounds, Phalasans package, to the light impost of 100 pounds to be carried by Down Under, and 96 pounds which Adolf will shoulder. Adolf runs coupled with Prince Argo as the "Butsey" Hernandez entry. The piece de resistance for the closing day should prove highly interesting, for two of the entrants named in the overnight affair have shattered track records for the six furlongs distance here. Unassisted was first to lower the mark for the dash, running six furlongs in 1:11 when he .turned in his winning effort, while Pin Money shattered Un-assisteds mark for the distance completing the six furlongs in 1:10. Opposed to Unassisted and Pin Money are such racers as Prince Argo, a popular sprinter with the public, and Fairflax, which is also quite capable of giving a good account of himself. The card of eight races which racing secretary Richard A. Leigh has arranged for the closing day is of stellar caliber with four sprint events and four distant affairs carded on he program. The patrons amateur handicapping prize for the final days racing is ,000.
