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j j ; I . , I ; I : i 5 I INAUGURAL HANDICAP FIELD Sprinters to Compete for Honors in Fairmount Park Attraction. Barn-to-Barn Check Reveals a Dozen Thoroughbreds Ready to Go Postward— Meeting Opens Saturday. COLLINSVILLE, 111., May 2.— One of the classiest opening day fields in the history of Fairmount Park looms for the Inaugural Handicap when the twenty-seven-day meeting is ushered in next Saturday. Taking time out yesterday to make a barn-to-barn check of the thoroughbreds likely to go postward in the six-furlongs feature, racing secretary Dick Leigh came up with a dozen names, and indicative of the oft-repeated assertion, local fans will see many new equines this tpring, is the fact that of the twelve, seven will make their debuts here if they accept the issue. The probable field includes Norman "Butsey" Hernandez Prince Argo and Roi-def; Clarence E. Davisons Chance Ray and Masterpiece; Jim Chesneys Professor Paul and Transview; Otto Bagleys "Wise Barrister, Elooto and The Whale; Charles Deahls Fast Move; Dan Hardys Sweet Adeline; and E. B. Shipps Khar Fair. Scheduled to be seen for the first time are Chance Ray, winner of close-to 8,000 in purse money last year, and Masterpiece; Roidef, victor over the best sprinters in New Orleans last winter in the Spanish Fort Handicap, including Old Rosebush, Be Jabbers and White Cockade; Wise Barrister, Elooto and The Whale, the first-named in the money in eight out of nine starts in allowance and handicap company this year, including a recent handicap victory at Keeneland, and Sweet Adeline, another star of New Orleans racing. Of the familiar ones, the prowess of Prince I Argo, Fast Move and Professor Paul is well » known. Prince Argo and Fast Move were i stars of last springs racing, and Prince Argo came back with other fine efforts in the fall. Professor Paul, a winner here in past sea-" j sons, has been taking to training here this ! spring in bang-up style, and the opening ! field wont find a better conditioned equine than "the professor." Only yesterday he showed his fitness by going six furlongs in 1:14 handily.
