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Strength Takes Lincoln Main Offering Ten Oppose Lucky Draw in Peter Pan Widener Colt Has Top Impost of 119 119Route Route Handicap at Belmont Also Will Engage Galactic Free Lance and Hoodoo HoodooELMONT ELMONT L I N Y May 23 The Peter Pan Handicap 7500 added fixture at a mile and a furlong will have its fifth running at Belmont Park tomorrow and has drawn a field of 11 of the second flight threeyearolds That qualifying term might be libelous in a year in which the best of the division seems of dubious quality Apart from considerations of his ¬ torical significance the Peter Pan should produce a highly exciting race for a goodly number of the starters have displayed sim ¬ ilar form during the spring season seasonGeorge George D Wideners Lucky Draw has been accorded the honor of top weight among the potential starters with 119 pounds and has worked well since the brief attack of colic which caused him to miss his Kentucky Derby engagement His most recent moves were six furlongs in 115 yesterday and an earlier trial at the Peter Pan distance in which he stepped a mile and oneeighth in 152 with fractions of 113 and 139 In his last public ap ¬ pearance the son of Jack HighTatanne by St James merely romped to victory in a division of the Wood Memorial His trials and the fact that several of his most conspicuous rivals in the Peter Pan were behind him in that race will undoubtedly make him the public choice choiceStake Stake Had First Running in 1940 1940The The Inaugural running of the Peter Pan in 1940 was won by Millsdale Stables Andy K and succeeding winners were Robert Morris Fairaris and Slide Rule which sug ¬ gests it takes a fair but not necessarily champion colt to win it Perhaps the best of the quartet of earlier winners was W E Boeings Slide Rule who carried 120 a pound more than Lucky Draw will be re ¬ quired to carry tomorrow tomorrowThe The skies are overcast at this writing and a muddy track is in prospect Lucky Draw will not be bothered by the heavy footing footingLucky Lucky Draw will be ridden by Johnny Lpngden and is a front runner which is no disadvantage to that veteran rider though he did manage to come from behind with Alquest to win the Spendthrift Handicap here yesterday yesterdayThe The complete field for the Peter Pan consists of Lucky Draw 119 Galactic 114 Free Lance 112 Bounding Home and Hoodoo 110 Bull Dandy 109 Pyracanth 108 Comenow 106 Nursery Tale 105 Foot Free 104 and Jovine 100
