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MOTOR CITY HANDICAP HAS BANNER FIELD OF SIXTEEN SIXTEENHigh High Fidelity Gets Honor Impost in Detroits 5000 Added Race RaceDETROIT DETROIT Mich June 6 Detroit Racing Association officials were making last min ¬ ute preparations today to handle one of the largest crowds in the Fair Grounds tracks history for tomorrows halfholiday sport Racing secretary Charles Henry has prepared an outstanding eightrace program which will be headlined by the 55000 Motor City Handicap and the cofeatured Daily Racing Form Purse PurseThe The Motor City which will have its fifth running tomorrow attracted a banner field and no less than sixteen horses were named through the overnight entry box for the one mile and seventy yards test Of these High Fidelity from the River Divide Farm was assigned the post of honor with an impost of 119 pounds The gelded son of Insco and Top Lady gave a sterling performance at the local track Memorial Day when he ac counted for the eighth running of the Col Alger under 115 pounds poundsMEETS MEETS BAR FLY AGAIN AGAINThat That High Fidelity must be at his best to take top honors in the Motor City is a foregone conclusion for he is again asked to meet the Parkwood Stables Bar Fly which he beat a scant nose in the Alger Bar Fly will go postward tomorrow under 115 pounds and his previous effort stamps him as one of the foremost contenders The locally owned Charles T Fishers Dixiana stable will also have a strong hand for it will again depend on Dollar Bay which was good enough to take third in the Alger just a nose off Bar Fy FyAnother Another fit racer which must be given more than an outside chance to score is Sun Pharos which finished fourth to the above named horses in his last start and was only a length off High Fidelity at the finish of the May 30 feature The Peterson and Childs colt is dead fit at the present time and will be coupled with his stable mate StemWinder for the deciding of the Saturday classic classicAnother Another Detroit establishment will have representation in the Motor City for the Bomar Stable accepted the weight assign ¬ ment of 106 pounds for its Detroit Bull Although the son of Bull Dog and My Lava has been slow to reach his best form this spring trainer Edgar Barnes is of the opin ¬ ion that his performance in tomorrows test will be an improved one oneOTHERS OTHERS NAMED NAMEDCompleting Completing the field for the route event will be such shifty racers as W E Balls Sidout the Leist Marshall entry of ShakerMan and Dancing Light B M Smiths Cooling Spring Mrs J B Burn steins Hazel F Ernest Doumanis Dream Boat the C Graham entry consisting of Boss Hoss and Scandalous Mrs E Ores Bucking and Smith G Baker Srs hard ¬ hitting threeyearold filly Meggy MeggyContinued Continued on fortysecond page MOTOR CITY HANDICAP HAS BANNER FIELD OF SIXTEEN SIXTEENHigh High Fidelity Gets Honor Impost in Detroits 5000 Added Race RaceContinued Continued from first page pageAlthough Although the Motor City was not renewed in 1940 previous runnings of the event pro ¬ duced some hotly contested races and the 1936 inaugural was won by the gieat mare Myrtlewood Subsequent renewals were taken by Tempestuous Mucho Gusto and Star Boarder proving that it takes a good thoroughbred to annex top honors in the test testVieing Vieing for interest with the Motor City to ¬ morrow will be the deciding of the secondary attraction and cofeatured Daily Racing Form Purse a dash of six furlongs for three yearolds and upward A small but shifty field of five of the top flight sprinters on the grounds have been named to go to the post in the Form FormThe The probable choice for the latter event will be Miss Louise E Vimonts sprinter Burgoo Miss but she will have stout oppo ¬ sition from such shifty performers as John Greeners Clarksville which won his last outing at the local oval and Mrs Henri Torrientes Aerial Bomb Completing the field of the Daily Racing Form will be Dar ¬ by Dan Farms Darby Dienst and M J Schmitts True Star StarFollowing Following is the field for the Motor City Handicap in order of post positions and probable riders ridersPP PP Horse Wt Jockey 1 Sidout 102 F Grill 2 ShakerMan 105 W Cassity 3 Bucking 108 J Cavens 4 Dollar Bay 103 G King 5 High Fidelity 119 J Flinchum 6 Meggy 103 J G Wilson 7 StemWinder 106 E LeBlanc 8 Detroit Bull 106 G Rose 9 Scandalous 109 P Milligan 10 Bar Fly 115 S D Birley 11 Boss Hoss 108 P Milligan 12 Dream Boat 107 F Winn 13 Dancing Light 107 E Kaufman 14 Hazel F 95 C Hanauer 15 Sun Pharos 110 T Dickinson 16 Cooling Spring 107 N L Pierson PiersonC C Leist and K G Marshall entry Shaker Man Dancing Light Peterson Childs entry StemWinder Sun Pharos C Gra ¬ ham entry Scandalous Boss Hoss
