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EIGHTEEN ELIGIBLES LISTED FOR MOTOR CITY HANDICAP HANDICAPCrack Crack Field Assured for 5000 WeekEnd Attraction at Detroit DetroitDETROIT DETROIT Mich June 5 Entries for the fifth running of the 5000 Motor City Handi ¬ cap which will be decided at the Detroit Fair Grounds Saturday closed today with eighteen entrants representing fifteen separate interests Weights and accep ¬ tances for the one mile and seventy yards test will be made Friday and a good field is expected to go postvard in the weekend headliner headlinerThe The Peterson Childs stable through trainer Frank E Childs requested weights for both StemWinder and Sun Pharos and the latters recent winning effort in the renewal of the Wolverine Handicap stamps him as one of the best performers on the grounds Dixianas Dollar Bay is also ex ¬ pected to start and River Divide Farms High Fidelity which accounted for the eighth running of the Col Alger Memorial Handicap will probably go postward in the Motor City CityThe The Parkwood Stable named their Bar Fly A L Ferguson will no doubt send his useful Epidor and the locallyowned Bomar Stable may try for top honors with Detroit Bull Among others nominated are Smith Baker Srs clever Meggy B M Smiths Cooling Spring Beezley Cohens Even Roll and the Carl Graham entry of Boss Hoss and Scandalous The Marshall and Leist entry of Dancing Light and ShakerMan will be assigned weights as will Mrs E Oros Bucking and W E Balls Sidout SidoutAlthough Although the Motor City was not decided in 1910 previous runnings produced keen sport The 1936 inaugural fell to the great mare Myrtlewood and subsequent renewals were won by Tempestuous Mucho Gusto and andContinued Continued on fifth page EIGHTEEN ELIGIBLES LISTED FOR MOTOR CITY HANDICAP HANDICAPContinued Continued from first page pageStar Star Boarder The 1941 feature promises to come up to previously set standards and Fair Grounds officials are preparing to en ¬ tertain a record crowd Saturday SaturdayThe The return of clear and warm weather aided in attracting another good crowd to the local plant today for the presentation of the eightrace program The racing strip which was muddy for yesterdays sport dried out rapidly under the sun and a stiff breeze The course however remained off for the earlier races but improved during the progress of the card v
