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► • , — __ Five Three-Year-Olds Furnish Sport in Lincoln Dash Feature Duck Berry and Galloway 1 To Vie for Favoritism in Topsy Sue Purse at Cicero HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 17.— With many stables shipping from this territory over the week-end and replacements not due to arrive from Kentucky until Monday, the card that opens the second week of the sport at the Lincoln Fields-at-Haw-thorne meeting, is given over to the lesser lights of " the remaining colony and the fields are on the smaller side. However, there is a definite promise of keen contention in the various contests. Three-year-olds hold top billing on the card when five of this age are matched in the six and a half furlongs Topsy Sue Purse, an allowance test for a prize of ,500 that is the fifth race. Both Winners in Kentucky Duck Berry, from the stable of E. R. Morris, and Dixianas Galloway appear to be particularly evenly matched in the head-liner. The former, a son of Slave Ship, accounted for two races this year. In a six-furlong dash at Keeneland, Duck Berry flashed brisk speed but just lasted to earn the major award. Later at Churchill Downs at the same distance his winning effort was accomplished in the same manner but over a good track. Unless the additional sixteenth of a mile of the Topsy Sue proves his undoing he should be hard to beat. Galloway, a brown son of Count Gallahad, gave evidence of present fitness by a recent score at Churchill Downs and should retain that good form to give a good account of himself again. In his two-year-old campaign, he won two of five starts. He is a very formidable rival for Duck Berry. Mrs. Emil Denemark has named Last Stride to the feature. This highly regarded Hairan filly has done everything asked of her in her trials and unless she needs a race to complete her conditioning she might make her presence felt. There is a chance that the racing strip will not be fast and Last Stride scored her lone success last year in muddy going. Glaemel, who will represent Mrs. C. L. Larkin, was graduated from maiden ranks during his campaign at Gulfstream Park when he carried a ,000 claiming tag. The son of Green Melon must be accorded a chance to continue his success. Flying Ben, who will carry the silks of J. Maumus and who completes the quintet of sophomores in the feature, earns consideration on the strength of three victories during his juvenile campaign. The seventh race is a claimer at one mile and a furlong for Illinois owners and is confined to horses the bona fide property of residents fo the state of Illinois, and here a half-dozen are matched under a ,500 claiming price. Two-year-old fillies dash five furlongs in the third race.
