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SevenHorse Field In My Dandy Purse PurseLucky Lucky Colonel Seen Choice To Repeat Recent Success Gams Sugar Lump Rivals RivalsSPORTSMANS SPORTSMANS PARK Cicero 111 May 8 The My Dandy Purse one mile and a sixteenth event for fouryearolds and up ¬ ward is the feature offering of a well balanced eightrace program Monday as the Sportsmans Park spring meeting en ¬ ters the finalWeek The My Dandy should prove an interesting contest with specula ¬ tion in the sevenhorse field expected to be centeredt ri W T Loebers Lucky Colo ¬ nel Anthony Romanos Gams Orrwood Stables Sugar Lump and Frank Arrigos Antigone yillard T Beezleys Lightfoot Lady W M Higgins Frankish King and A Troutts ToyQuay comprise the re ¬ mained of the contestants with the last named the only one to be considered an outsider Lucky Colonel possesses the distinction of being the only racer entered to have been victorious in his last trip postward For a claiming price of 7000 Lucky Colo ¬ nel easily gave a lesson to his opponents at one mile and a furlong Previous to this triumph last week Lucky Colonel had been racing in improved fashion from his latest Florida form and there appears no reason why the improvement should not continue continueWinner Winner at 1947 Fall Meeting MeetingThe The fouryearold filly Gams may stand in the way of Lucky Colonel repeating here After an auspicious seasonal debut behind Bubbling Easy in the fivefurlong Berwyn Purse opening day Gams showed only a fair effort iirthe United Charities of Chi ¬ cago Purse in which she finished fifth As a conditioner however that race may have been just what was needed Last year Gams associated with much better com ¬ pany and was victorious over the one mile and a sixteenth distance here in the au tumn tumnAntigone Antigone and Frankish King were both considered honest performers during their New Orleans Fair Grounds campaign In her only outing over the local oval in the Inaugural Antigone could offer no resist ¬ ance to her formidable rivals but may find the field in Ithe My Dandy more to her liking Frankish King has not been seen in action here but will be given a great deal of consideration should the track be in an off condition conditionSugar Sugar Lump was boosted several notches in company after a galloping win over claiming rivals the opening week and showed her displeasure by finishing far be ¬ hind Lightfoot Lady on the other hand has been rising on the scale gradually and was claimed only Friday by Willard T Beezley for 5000 A couple of seasons ago Beezley raced Lightfoot Lady after which she changed hands several times being taken as far away as Santa Anita where she campaigned last winter only to return to Chicago and her home barn Lightfoot Lady finished second twice in a row over the same distance as she will be required to travel Monday
