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VALDINA GROOM The Congress Hotel Purse at Lincoln Fields has attracted the Emerson F Woodward racer who won the Kensington Purse at the Crete Cretecourse course earlier in the week CONSISTENT POTRANCO HAS HIGHLY CREDITABLE RECORD RECORDJudge Judge Hay Gelding MasWon Many Races in Lexbrook Stable Banner BannerCRETE CRETE 111 May 23 From the size of the crowd which turned out for the openingday racing program all that Lincoln Fields needs is good weather for the balance of the thirty day session to enjoy a successful meeting Despite the fact that it was Monday a day that is traditionally dull at any suburban race track a crowd of close to 10000 wit ¬ nessed a card which was dominated by Chi ¬ cagoowned campaigners No less than four winners on the card were owned by resi ¬ dents of the Windy City including Potranco PotrancoThat That gelded son of Judge Hay and the Sir Peter mare Essie Wessie won the feature race against a good field of sprinters when he finished two and onehalf lengths in ad ¬ vance of Mrs Emil Denemarks Equistjar in the good time of 112 over a racing strip which Was not at its best Potranco received the advantage jot a rather heady ride by the veteran Arthur Craig to collect the purse but more striking than this partipular vic ¬ tory is that he provides the perfect example of a useful horse horseNot Not a horse who has improved so much that he threatens the highclass handicap racers in big money events but the type who can be valuable to his owners because he will earn many purses in overnight handicap events of the type he won Monday M A and L D Kern owners of the Lexbrook Stable picked up this gelding via a claim in Chicago when he was two years old and I have raced him in their colors since sinceTOTAL TOTAL EARNINGS OF 28390 28390Potranco Potranco who now is a fouryearold has earned a total of 28390 in two and onehalf years of campaigning The Judge Hay geld ¬ ing had his biggest year thus far when he earned 120 0 as a juvenile in 1939 while winning six races and picking up two sec ¬ onds and one third in eleven starts startsDuring During the 1940 campaign he won seven of twentyone starts finished second seven times and third once while earning 9950 in purse money His victory in the opening day Lincoln Fields feature the Outer Drive Handicap was his third of the year in four ¬ teen starts in which he has also finished second six times and third twice while earn ¬ ing 6710 6710Behind Behind Potranco a horse making his first start since the Santa Anita meeting Mrs J F Waters Vino Puro was turning in a good race in finishing third to the Judge Hay gelding and Mrs Emil Denemarks rep ¬ resentative Equistar The imported son of Polemarch and Vainilla who won three straight races at Santa Anita before he fin ¬ ished out of the money behind Mioland in the San Antonio Handicap was closing ground featureFew stoutly in Mondays feature Few race courses have the natural setting for beauty afforded Lincoln Fields The course which Col Matt J Winh built in 1925 and opened in 1926 is one of the countrys loveliest Essentially a summer track Lin ¬ coln Fields is a garden spot under favorable conditions No course is more noted for its beauty than the Crete oval
