Detroits Attractive Card: Todays Program Headed by the Lilac Time Handicap and the Tulip Purse--Fine Entry List., Daily Racing Form, 1939-05-24

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DETROirS ATTRACTIVE CARD Todays Program Headed by the Lilac Time Handicap and the Tulip Purse — Fine Entry List. DETROIT, Mich., May 23.— Only surpassed by the program offered on opening day is the card arranged for tomorrow at Detroit. The Lilac Time Handicap, sixth and feature attraction, will bring together seven capable speedsters, and the Tulip Purse, over one mile and seventy yards and the fifth and secondary number, will engage the same number of performers. Lady Flash, making her debut under Mrs. Horace Rumages silks and winner of the Speed Test Purse last Saturday, will carry the top weight of 109 pounds in the Lilac Time Handicap. Biscayne Blue comes next under 108 pounds and then follows Autograph under 107 pounds. The three-year-olds Imperial Sir and Patrol Scout will carry 103 and 10O pounds, respectively. Morcarine, second in the Inaugural Handicap; Dick Naishapur, and Matchup will represent the three-year-old division in the Tulip Purse. Detroit Bull is the top-burdened under 116 pounds and others named for the jaunt at one mile and seventy yards are Dissembler, Show Up and All Lady. Better grade sprinting platers will match strides over six furlongs in the third and fourth events and the eighth contest brings together a small but representative field at one mile and seventy yards.


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