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Signator and Pig Tails Work Well for Crete CreteGo Go Five Furlongs in 1 03 In Preps for Saturdays Race RaceSTICKNEY STICKNEY 111 JVIay 17 Woolford Farms Signator and Pig Tails prepping for the 5000 Crete Handicap which Sig ¬ nator won a year ago worked five furlongs commendably through the slop at Haw ¬ thorne Sunday mprning and according to trainer Ross O Higdon they can be counted upon as almost certain starters in Saturdays sixfurlong stake Working in company around the dogs Signator and Pig Tails were timed in 103 The Walmac Farms Bushwhacker and Eddie Andersons Burnt Cork who also are pointing for the Crete Handicap executed training moves here Sunday morning too Bushwhacker traveled six furlongs inl24 and Burnt Cork withdrawn from todays Grand Crossing Handicap breezed three furlongs in 39 39Thirty Thirty horses are eligible for the Crete Handicap and perhaps as many as a dozen of them will actually take part in the race the first of six 5000 features which stud the Lincoln Fields program programScheduled Scheduled to return to competition dur ¬ ing the Lincoln Fields meeting is the Val dina Farms Valdina Orphan and he might start his summer campaign in the Crete He trained well at Louisville before coming here and soon will be at or near the peak of his form formAnother Another star who may be found among the entries for Saturdays stake is Brownell Combs Miss Dogwood winner of her only engagement this year She accounted for the Phoenix Handicap during the Keene land meeting and has retained her form ever since sinceAmong Among other eligibles for the Crete are A T Simmons Harvard Square John M Hutchins Woof Woof Mrs A M Creechs Sales Talk David Straus Daily Trouble John Marschs To a Tee Charles Nuckols Littletown and Ben Endovinas Vinum
