Inglewood Handicap Has Twenty Nominees: Several Eligibles for Gold Cup and Derby Among Candidates for Saturdays Hollywood Fixture, Daily Racing Form, 1941-06-20

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INGLEWOOD HANDICAP HAS TWENTY NOMINEES NOMINEESSeveral Several Eligibles for Gold Cup and Derby Among Candidates for Saturdays Hollywood Fixture FixtureINGLEWOOD INGLEWOOD Calif June 18 The best race of the season for older horses is in prospect for Hollywood Park Saturday with the fourth running of the Inglewood Handi ¬ cap a test of a mile and onesixteenth for threeyearolds and upward This 10000 fix ¬ ture drew a list of twenty nominations and among them are many of the leading candi ¬ dates for both the Hollywood Gold Cup and the Hollywood Derby heavily endowed fea ¬ tures JulySome scheduled for July Some of the leading lights made eligible for the Inglewood are Circle S Stables Hys ¬ terical Harry C Hills Sweepida Circle M Ranchs Big Pebble and Battle Colors Wil ¬ liam L Branns Pictor Louis B Mayers Two Ton Tony R A Cowards Exemplify and Robinson Philpots No Competition and Woof Woof Battle Colors is one of the ranking contenders for the 25000 Derby while most of the others rate high among the CupThree hopefuls for the 75000 Gold Cup Three of the eligibles already have dis ¬ tinguished themselves with stakes victories at this meeting Hysterical opened the sea ¬ son with a fine success in the Premiere Handicap and also was victor in the Red Cross Handicap yesterday Sweepida re ¬ affirmed his position as the California cham ¬ pion by capturing the Golden State Breeders Handicap and Battle Colors whipped a strong band of threeyearolds in the Will Rogers Handicap HandicapPICTOR PICTOR WON SATURDAY SATURDAYPictor Pictor gave evidence of his present fitness here Saturday when he turned back a fast field while Exemplify displayed his running capabilities by finishing second in the Pre ¬ miere Handicap HandicapSeveral Several of the horses eligible for Satur ¬ days stake notably Big Pebble winner of the Widener Challenge Cup in Florida last winter were seen under colors Monday in the 5000 Red Cross Handicap which went to Hysterical Big Pebble finished third to the Circle S Stable horse in what was his first local appearance The next big event designed for the same group is the 20000 American Handicap which will be run on July 4 This event to be decided at a mile and a furlong will not only draw the sur ¬ vivors of next Saturdays race but perhaps several other leading challengers for the cup Following cupFollowing is the complete list of nominees with weight assignments as released by racing secretary Francis P Dunne Horse Wt WtHysterical Hysterical 126 126Sweepida Sweepida 122 122Big Big Pebble 122 122Get Get Off 121 121No No Competition 121 Woof Woof 120 120Pictor Pictor 120 120Mount Mount Vernn II 115 Battle Colors 115 Sir Jeffrey 113 Horse Wt WtRoyal Royal Crusader 112 112Exemplify Exemplify ill illAethelwold Aethelwold 110 110Shipbiscuit Shipbiscuit 110 110Capt Capt Cal 109 109Mr Mr Grundy 109 109King King Torch 105 105Two Two Ton Tony 105 105Merry Merry Knight 105 105Barrancosa Barrancosa 101


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