Lincoln Handicap Next Feature at Hawthorne: Mile and Quarter Race Saturday Brings Current Meeting to Close, Daily Racing Form, 1944-06-12

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Lincoln Handicap Next Feature at Hawthorne HawthorneMile Mile and Quarter Race Saturday Brings Current Meeting to Close CloseSTICKNEY STICKNEY 111 June 10 With the re maingr six days of the current Lincoln Fields Jockey Club meeting which closes next Saturday likely to witness some of the most entertaining sport of the session the keen interest fans have manifested in the racing presented by this association at popular and accessible Hawthorne may be expected to continue right down to the final bugle More probable than not the remaining programs will attract larger crowds than turned out for the sport in any previous sixday spari Memorial Day week excepted Good weather and the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club has not been favored by any break from the weather man and attendance during the closing week could show an increase over pre ¬ vious weeks weeksWhen When bringing its meeting to a close next Saturday the management will renew the 5000 added Lincoln Handicap a one mile and a quarter test for which 20 of tha better distance runners here are eligible And if this stake the third in Lincoln Fields Jockey Clubs series for distance handicap performers can be run under better conditions than attended the Francis S Peabody Memorial Handicap and the La Salle Handicap it should prove the out ¬ standing attraction of the entire meeting meetingDecided Decided on a fast or even a good track the Lincoln Handicap is almost certain to bring to the post such well known per ¬ formers as Equifox Challenge Me Devalue Shot Put Night Shadow Valdina Foe Parasang Daily Trouble Take Wing Choppy Sea American Eagle Rosy Brand and others And as such a field would represent the strongest brought together during the meeting the final day could prove the most heavily patronized Saturday of the meeting meetingOther Other handicaps programmed during the week include one of 2000 for threeyear olds and upward and to be run at six and onehalf furlongs on Wednesday and an ¬ other of similar value and for horses of the same ages to be offered as the secondary feature on the closing day Entries for tha former close Monday while Saturdays race remains open until Thursday


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