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Expect Good Field For 5000 Race RacePossibility Possibility of Black Badge Amber Light Meeting Again Lends Interest to Campau CampauDETROIT DETROIT Mich May 31 Saturdays racing at the Fair Grounds will perchance supply the opportunity for a return en ¬ gagement between Abe Hirschbergs Black Badge and Dixianas Amber Light Each holds a decision over the other at this meeting so far And because of such their engaging in the 5000 Joseph Campau Handicap could very well focus more atten ¬ tion on that six furlongs joust for three yearolds and older than on the richer Motor City Handicap worth 10000 and the nominal highlight of the Saturday card By the way the Motor City fash ¬ ioned for threeyearolds and older and at a mile and a sixteenth possibly may bring out Black Badges stable companion Canina This threeyearold filly made her first public appearance of this session Memorial Day in the Col Alger Memorial Purse and easily dominated opponents throughout Her presence would of course add interest to the main event eventThat That Black Badge and Amber Light will do battle in the Joseph Campau is merely presumption It is reasonably correct to assume that they will however The formers forte is sprinting He would therefore hardly go in the longer Motor City route On the other hand although Amber Light can negotiate a distance he is a more competent sprinter and the man ¬ ner in which he captured the Cadillac last Saturday infers that he may be the one to handle the black whirlwind On that occasion Black Badge was not too well ridden He was taken all over the track from the inside to the outside and when he did finally reach the pacesetting Amber Light had nothing left for a tussle This no doubt was due to his carrying 118 pounds four more than his year older rival toted totedList List Other Probables ProbablesAgainst Against this pair could very well be marshalled such as Navy Cross Likeasnot Darby Dingbat Credit Man Jo Agnes Night Crawler Smacked and perhaps Wise Moss and Best Seller The former is a capable sprinter as well as a proficient route performer Incidentally she closed very fast in the Col Alger Memorial Al ¬ though failing to catch Canina she was not however disgraced It could so hap ¬ pen therefore that her connections would prefer to send her out for the richer Motor City This may draw a field from such as Sweep Swinger hero of the openingday Inaugural Handicap Samborombon and W H Kelley second and third respectively on that same occasion Free Speech Spy Snare Darby Donhe Some Man Believe Red Dock and Omasari OmasariTomorrows Tomorrows eightrace card is made up of small fields for the most part The sixth and seventh share top billing Titled the Navare Purse and for threeyearolds and older the sixth is at six furlongs car ¬ ries a purse of 2000 and has nine en ¬ trants while the seventh is at a mile and onesixteenth and worth 2500 Six have accepted the issue in this Royal Oak Purse fashioned for threeyearolds and older and they are Plaidloch Ubiquitous Glas tauder Betty Johnson Towakee and Roncat
