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Seven in Pontiac Event At Fairmount Park Today Gourmet to Concede Four Pounds To Fisherville and Royal Lady COLLINSVILLE, 111., June 1.— Adhering! to the policy of presenting a handicap on i Wednesdays and Saturdays during the 33-day meeting at Fairmount Park here, the : local organization has carded the Pontiac ■ Handicap as top offering on a program of eight races drafted by racing secretary Jack Klucina. The feature is a six furlongs ; sprint calling together a small but stylish band of seven entrants, three-year-olds and Older. The purse attachment is ,200. Topweighted is D. C. Wilhelms Gourmet who last year won two races at this course j going a distance of ground. He is asked! ■ to shoulder 114 pounds and concedes four1 pounds to his nearest rivals, Fisherville. owned by Mrs. A. Breedlove, and Royal I j Lady, property of A. Palmisano. both toting 110. The others making up the field arei Doubtful, owned jointly by Humes and Spar- j row. carrying 108; G. Osbornes Dodge City, 108: I. Gawthorps Ya-Man. with 107, 1 and G. and W. Shultzs Tyro Lad, carrying the feather of 105 pounds. All of the contestants listed overnight , i have seen action at the current session. I Royal Lady is the nominal choice in the Pontiac, although she picks up six pounds over the burden she packed in capturing the Inaugural Day Handicap. Gourmet] j finished eighth in the Inaugural under 117 ■ pounds while Fisherville landed in sixth j place, carrying three more pounds than he is assigned here. 1 Ya-Man and Tyro Lad finished third and fourth respectively in an allowance affair Wednesday going five furlongs. Doubtful made his debut at this session in the Memorial Day Handicap Wednesday under ! 110 pounds and wound up sixth, while I Dodge City won a claiming race yesterday. | Seven well balanced fields support the! feature tomorrow and a fast track is in prospect.
