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Crete Stakes May Draw Miss Dogwood *Oaks Winner Now At Peak of Form Most Likely Will Be Named For Erents Restricted to Three-Year-Olds, Upward CRETE, 111., May 12.— Many prominent thoroughbreds will be present at Lincoln Fields when the meeting gets under way on Monday, and among them will be Brownell Combs fleet-footed three-year-! old, Miss Dogwood, winner last Thursday of the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. Miss Dogwood, conqueror last year of Petrify and other outstanding juveniles, won two races at Churchill Downs and bids fair to be a leading contender for the championship of the three-year-old filly division. There is no stake on the Lincoln Fields program exclusively for thoroughbreds of her age and sex, but she may be sent after her masculine rivals in all or some of the four stakes fashioned for three-year-olds and older horses. Miss Dogwoods dam, Myrtlewood, is well remembered by Chicago racing devotees. As a three-year-old she won the Francis S. Peabody Memorial Handicap here at Lincoln Fields in 1935 and later that year beat Clang in a match race at Hawthorne. Mecca for Stake Winners In the Kentucky Oaks, Miss Dogwood showed some of the qualities of her illustrious dam and she may be heard from in the racingfcere. At least three other Churchill Downs stake winners are coming to Lincoln Fields. They are the R C Stables Royal Crusader, James Graham Browns Trustee, and Carney and Ramseys Navy Cross. Royal Crusader won the Churchill Downs Handicap, Trustee accounted for the Debutante Stakes, and Navy Cross captured the Bash-ford Manor Stakes. Royal Crusader is to be made eligible for at least three of the Lincoln Fields distance features, while Trustee and Navy Cross are to be named for the Joliet Stakes for two-year-olds. Lincoln Fields is steadily filling with thoroughbreds and by the end of the week nearly 1,000 horses will either be here or at Washington Park. 1 I I I i
