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Roscoe Goose After Repeat Victory Has Fourteen Foes In Challedon Purse PurseYesnow Yesnow Chesty Brief Sigh And Slamaranth in LineUp For Lincoln Fields Feature FeatureWASHINGTON WASHINGTON PARK Homewood HI May 27 The Challedon Purse a sixfur ¬ long allowance sprint for fouryearolds and upward will be the top attraction on the Lincoln Fields program at this spacious South Side racing grounds tomorrow In ¬ cluded in the group of 15 entrants for the headliner are some betterthanaverage sprinters and the dash shapes up as one of the better short distance offerings of the current meeting Present overhead conditions point to a fast track for tomor ¬ rows wellbalanced card cardChief Chief contenders for the Challedon in ¬ clude Jake Lowensteins Roscoe Goose C E Cones Yesnow Mrs Emil Denemarka locallyowned Chesty Bomar Stables Slamaranth and River Divide Farms Brief Sigh Roscoe Goose drove to a clever vic ¬ tory in a sprint here last Tuesday when making his second start of the 1948 season and he may be the choice on the strength of that performance Chesty ran second in his last outing and Yesnow also placed be ¬ hind the surprise winner Hard Held vic ¬ tor in a threequarter mile dash on May 20 20Slamaranth Slamaranth rated a good performer dur ¬ ing his threeyearold campaign and par ¬ ticularly on an off track does not ap ¬ pear to have reached peak form here yet Meeting top class company last Saturday the son of Grand Slam finished far back in a condition race captured by Frederick Wyses speedy Air Rate Slamaranth how ¬ ever is not called upon to meet such speedy opposition in the Challedon and he may give an improved performance performanceOthers Others in Days Headliner HeadlinerCompleting Completing the Challedon Purse prob ¬ able starting band are M A Waldheima Fifteenth John M Hutchins My Star Mrs Edward McCuans Dimit Wallace Renards Whiteford Tet Mr and Mrs P J Sopsics Mali Johnny Shady Brook Farms Upstate John Wolfs Captain Pat ¬ rick Roy F Norris Nassau Son J D Mikels Sun Carrier and William Hal Bishops Heres Me Of this latter group Upstate has shown marked improvement in recent starts and Heres Me won several major engagements at Sportsmans Park before her transfer to the local course courseAn An even dozen twoyearold fillies will contest the Lady Madcap Purse Arthur B Hancock Jrs Nitromond being the likely favorite or the five furlongs dash The homebred daughter of Bull Lea Second Front lost a narrow verdict to Afton Villa Farms Bird Shot in her previous start and she has worked splendidly for tomorrows engagement Other quick junior misses scheduled to go postward in the secondary attraction are Dr Eslie Asburys Dearlea Bomar Stables Laurabeth John Marschs No Strings and the well regarded first time starter Gran Citella from the James Emery stable stableThe The Falsetto Purse will match three yearolds at six furlongs and should re ¬ sult in one of the better offerings of the day Among those expected to accept in the sprint are Mrs John Marschs Some Relief Shady Brook Farms St Louisan Murlogg Farms Stepinfox and M M Hel lermanc Debaby Stepinfox is in excellent condition at present and worked six fur ¬ longs here yesterday morning in 113
