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Three Three Percent Percent Decidedly Decidedly Best Best at at Crete; Crete; Vagrancy Vagrancy Coaching Coaching ClubOaks ClubOaks Victress Victress Rouse Gelding Seven Lengths Before Don Lin II. at Finish Assumes Command Shortly After Start in Lincolnshire Country Club Handicap and Is Never Headed Thereafter Lums Pride and Hillfilly Complete C. Lauck Doubje CRETE, 111., May 27. Howard Rouses Three Percent, who won seven races, including the Autumn Handicap, at Churchill Downs last year scored his first success in three starts in 1942 when he beat four other horses in the Lincolnshire Country Club Handicap at Lincoln Fields today. The four-year-old son of Percentage and Brune left no doubt as to his superiority over his field, for he completed the seven furlongs with . a lead of seven lengths. Don Lin II. took down second honors, with Cadmium finishing third, a half length farther back. Lapped on the latter as he crossed the Una of finish were the other two contestants, Step By and Sea Tack. Three Percent, who paid .20 for , ran the seven furlongs on a fast track in. 1:25 Vs. His weight was 108 pounds, four less than the top-weighted Cadmium, who ruled the favorite. The Rouse four-year-old, guided by Ovia Scurlock, went to the front soon after the break and before going an eighth mile was five lengths in front. He stretched this ad vantage to eight lengths approaching the far turn and had no trouble maintaining that lead the rest of the way. Cadmium Runs Third S Don Lin n. settled into second position ,neanng the turn and held it the rest of the way, though he had to be handled vigorously to stall off Cadmium who, as usual, didnt get going until the race was more than half over. At one stage of the race he was something like eighteen lengths off the leader. As a spectacle there wasnt a lot to the race, except for those who like to see a horse run away from his. field and for the many who supported him. Attendance today was up to par, and for the most part fans saw contests interesting enough to bring them to their feet. Another highlight of the days racing was the double success of the stable maintained by Chester Lauck, known to radio fans as "Lum." After Hillfilly won the third race, a substitute event, Lums Pride came out to capture the Blue Island Purse, the chief supporting attraction on the card. Lums Pride, ridden by J. F. Frye, was almost entirely overlooked by the crowd, for he paid 29.20 for in the mutuels. Among the leaders from the beginning, Lums Pride responded when put to a drive in the home stretch, got through on the inside and at the end of the six furlongs Continued on Page Eighteen Three Percent Romping Lincoln Fields Winner Don Lin il. Trails by Seven at Wire Double for C. Lauck Stable Continued Jrom Page One was in front by a little more than a length. Defense who divided pacemaking honors with Sis Baker, lasted to be second, as Bay-ridge finished third. First Prize, the favorite, was next and then came the tiring Sis Baker. The third race also was contested at six furlongs, and Hillf illy, guided by M. J. Haycock, got the decision here by only a nose over the heavily-supported Epistle. TJra-winner was third. Those who supported the Lauck representative in this event received 2.20 for . Trainer of tjiese two three-year-olds is Sam Sechrest. Two more strongly-supported winners today were T. B. McGraths Sir Kiev, who got a close decision over Irish Bay at the end of the six furlongs of the first race, and Edward and William Janss Top Rung, who captured the second, also contested at three-quarters of a mile.
