Occupation May Make 43 Bow Saturday: Marsch Ace Likely Starter in Steger; First Four Horses Finishing In Drake Hotel Handicap Are Expected to Travel Postward, Daily Racing Form, 1943-06-01

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Occupation May Make 43 BowSaturda Marsch Ace Likely Starter in Steger StegerFirst First Four Horses Finishing In Drake Hotel Handicap Are Expected to Travel Postward PostwardSTICKNEY STICKNEY 111 May 31 The first four horses under the wire in last Saturdays running of the Drake Hotel Handicap and 28 other speedsters are eligible for the 5000 Steger Handicap to be renewed at Hawthorne this coming Saturday and if the track is fast as it has not been since the meeting opened it promises to be one of the outstanding sprint attractions of the Chicago season The quartet which showed the way home in last Saturdays feature are in order Wishbone Burnt Cork Woof Woof and Daily Trouble while others nominated for the Steger are Occupation Valdina Orphan Rounders Miss Dogwood To a Tee Best Seller Signator Pig Tails Contradiction Chipamink Littletown Har ¬ vard Square and Bushwhacker BushwhackerThe The Steger holds particulaF promise be ¬ cause of the chance that Occupation John Marschs 1942 juvenile star might be among the starters Trainer Burley Parke has the splendid son of Bull Dog near rac ¬ ing condition and since he hopes to start the colt at least once during the Lincoln Fields meeting fans are hoping it is the Steger in which he will be obliged to tackle older horses at six and a half furlongs that will be his first major objective of the season Parke is expected to make a de ¬ cision in this Connection after he has had an opportunity to make a study of the Steger weights weightsValdina Valdina Orphan Wants Fast Track TrackFans Fans also are hoping that the Steger will draw the entry of the two Valdina Farm stars Valdina Orphan and Rounders The latter may not yet be up to a race having been inactive since last winter but Valdina Orphan is well advanced in his training and trainer Frank Catrone would be in ¬ clined to start him Saturday if the track is fast The same holds true of Best Seller star of the River Divide Stable who already has two 1943 stake triumphs to his credit He won the Kentucky Handicap at Churchill Downs and the Governors Handicap at Beular Park ParkSignator Signator who won the Crete Handicap under the colors of the Woolford Farm and his stablemate Pig Tails second in that fixture are almost certain to be found in the Steger lineup as is Wishbone whose victory for John M Hutchins in the Drake Hotel Handicap was most impressive In winning the Drake Hotel Handicap Wish ¬ bone came from behind with a splendid burst of speed to get a head decision as Burnt Cork Eddie Andersons threeyear old speedster beat the winners stablemate Woof Woof a similar margin for the place Daily Trouble owned by David Straus was only a nose farther away in fourth place and he closed in a manner to suggest that he will be a sharp contender for honors on Saturday


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