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Illinois News and Notes LINCOLN FIELDS at Hawthorne Stickney 111 June 15 15Enjoying Enjoying improved health C A Biden cope veteran horseman who has been in ¬ active for the past year may return to the turf in an active capacity within a short time He may take over the horses of several patrons When C Bruce Head popular racing of ¬ ficial who is slowly regaining his health following an illness of several weeks re ¬ turns to Louisville on Saturday he will be accompanied by his sister Mrs C Gre sham and Samuel H McMeekin track of ¬ ficial who has worked with Head for many years yearsRoy Roy Dickerson starter at Washingtoh Park has inaugurated the schooling of horses at the Homewood track Beginning next week he will provide similar facilities for trainers whose horses are at Lincoln Fields Al Sabath stated here today that the horses August Swenke is training for Mrs Sabath are to leave New York for Wash ¬ ington Park just as quickly as transporta ¬ tion can be arranged arrangedTwo Two more horses were purchased here today by L W Marks They were Mascu ¬ line and Coordinator and like others he acquired in this area will be shipped to Canada for racing in the Northwest Mas ¬ culine was bought from Mrs J P Keezek and the other campaigner from C F Dris i coll Nick Burger vanned his horses including the good mare Traffic Court to Washing ¬ ton Park Two horses were claimed out of the final race here yesterday M J Sebring taking Donegal while M Obstfeld had in a claim for WestHo Each horse was entered for 1000 John Marsch has returned from Hot Springs where he has been resting for the past two weeks weeksTrainer Trainer W J Curran announced that he will cease training the Lustgarten and Weinberg horses at the close of the Lincoln Fields meeting His successor has not been named Following the conclusion of the Lincoln Fields season starter Reuben White is taking himself and family to Wisconsin for a vacation White has been active without letup since early last winter winterFAIRMOUNT FAIRMOUNT PARK Collinsville 111 June 15 15E E D Slavin Brookfield Mo breeder announced the arrival of seven foals at his farm All of them are by his promising young stallion Big One The Slavin horse sent his first crop to the races this year and all five of them have already won at least one or more races racesMany Many western horsemen who are racing their charges here plan shipping their stables to Columbus Nebraska next month for the 21 days of racing to be held in that icity under the auspices of the Platte County Agricultural Society The meeting begins July 1 and runs through July 29 There will be no racing on Mondays MondaysMel Mel Duhon was a spectator at the local track this afternoon The Kaplan La youngster was leading rider at the recently concluded meeting of Hipodromo de Las Americas at Mexico City Duhon plans resting a few days before getting into silks silksC C V Sparks who breeds his own horses with his brother WF Sparks is condition ¬ ing 11 head here Included in the unit are six twoyearolds all by their own sire Saracen The Sparks farm is at nearby Cahokian 111 William Phillips local conditioner has his smallest stable in years The veteran has but two horses under his care at Fair mount Park Phillips is training Smart Charley for Mrs M Kerr and Squaw Jane for R B Ferguson Manhunt a veteran campaigner is the only horse Clyde Lipe has here for racing racingR R W McDonnel reported the purchase of Sporting Code which he bought from I E Lawver There are 483 horses registered with racing secretary R A Leigh Sr Of these 71 are twoyearolds and 93 threeyear olds G W Hawkins announced he sold Phan ¬ tom Son to F J Moore The new owner will condition the horse horseA A weekly visitor at Fairmount Park is Tom H Heard Jr owner of the handicap performer Boysy Heard is stationed at Scott Field only a few miles from the local track Because of her taking with a hemorrhage in her race yesterday the stewards have placed Town Lace on their list listBreakdown Breakdown was claimed Wednesday by C W Battles for 800 800Col Col Frank L Carr chief of the United States Remount Service who reached here yesterday from Washington departed for Fort Robinson Neb According to word received here this morning a sister of Felix J Demary died Wednesday night at Abbeville La Demary is expected here next week False Card and Little Red Fox have been placed on the stewards list Both horses were fractious at the post in their last en ¬ gagements gagementsMel Mel Duhon leading rider at Hipodromo De Las Americas swung into action on the Thursday program In failing to break with her field Wednesday the stewards Have barred the entry of Shadoon ShadoonThe The feature offering Saturday will be the 1200 Creve Couer Handicap It is open for threeyearolds and upward and is afc one mile and 70 yards
