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Six in Glen Ellvn Purse at Hawthorne Devalue Hooks Up With Winter Rules RulesRex Rex and Lost and Found Also Well Regarded for Mile and Sixteenth Test TestHAWTHORNE HAWTHORNE Cicero 111 May 21 The Happy Hour Farms Devalue who has been unable to impress favorably since unleash ¬ ing a terrific burst of stretch speed to beat Thumbs Up in the 50000 Stars and Stripes Handicap last summer will again attempt to regain winning form when he clashes with a small field in the Glen Ellyn Purse mile and onesixteenth jaunt that holds down the spotlight on tomor ¬ rows betterthanaverage program here hereThe The big heavyheaded son of Espino Off Gold will be ideally suited by the class of competition and the conditions of the race but may be forced to show great im ¬ provement over his recent efforts to gain the top award Those facing him are a likely lot who have been knocking at the winners circle here of late and are capable of hauling in the big money moneyTrained Trained by the young local horseman Ralph Salvino the old plodder will have the services of Raymond Bendinelli a nineteenyearold lad from Chicago who won the first race of his career here last week on the plater Cast Off Bendinelli is under contract to the Happy Hour outfit and has been Devalues regular exercise boy With only six horses entered his ac ¬ tions on the veteran racer will be watched closely closelyVersatile Versatile Performer PerformerThe The most formidable contender for top honors in the feature will be Royal Palm Stables Winter Rules a sixyearold geld ¬ ing who has shown in his previous efforts this season that he is versatile enough to run at any reasonable distance on any type of track Last Saturday at Churchill Downs he was a fastclosing third in a sixfurlong dash while prior to that he easily captured a pair of mile and oneeighth events at the Louisville strip R L Vedder will have the mount mountRex Rex owned by the powerful Brolite Farm which recently arrived here is another who showed impressively at the Downs On May 8 he made his first start of the meet ¬ ing after a hard campaign at Santa Anita and proved his fine condition by scoring over Galaprox Thor Jacalitos What Night Alumont and Wire QuesX The distance was the same as tomorrow and jockey Chuck Wahler will handle the reins reinsL L D Rosenthals Lost and Found who is trained by the colorful Mexican A Chico Rodriguez will be making his first try at a distance since the season started here and is highly respected in some quarters The robust gelding won his last try at Sports ¬ mans Park at seven furlongs and during the winter season at New Orleans he proved capable enough at routerunning He is especially fond of an off track Mike Caffarella who appears to have returned to his best riding form has drawn the pilot assignment assignmentSignals Signals Bloke owned by the Jeff Lin Sta ¬ ble was a winner at Sportsmans Park but has failed to show much staying power thus far here J E Oros will do the riding Completing the field will be A S Higgins Powdered Milk whose sharp early speed may make him Jiard to catch