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Peabody Eligibles Drilled Over Lincoln Fields Oval OvalPiet Piet Papa Redbird Shy Guy Test Speed With Stakes Event in View ViewWASHINGTON WASHINGTON PARK Homewood HI May 27 Lincoln Fields thoroughbreds have been chalking up fast times over the speedy Homewood racing strip as witness the 5ys record set by Olympia and Ky Colonel in the Joliet Stakes and Billings easy run of 136 in the Hygro Purse also on last Saturdays card cardBut But the horses that contest in Lincoln Fields two big holiday weekend stakes the 10000 Steger at six and onehalf furlongs Saturday and the 25000 Pea body Memorial for threeyearolds at a mile and a furlong Monday will have to step to create new marks marksThe The track record of 116 for six ahd one half furlongs was established by Calu ¬ mets Good Blood as a threeyearold filly in 1945 This is a second slower than the world mark set by Snark at Hialeah in 1937 1937Another Another Calumet colorbearer the great gelding Armed holds the Homewood mile and a furlong mark of 148 The fast son of Bull Lea set this standard while winning the Whirlaway Stakes last sum ¬ mer merAmong Among those who will take a crack at the six and onehalf furlongs mark in the 17th running of the Steger are Fighting Frank Delegate Eternal Reward Air Rate Tidy Sum Tre Vit Southern Pride Pre ¬ occupy and Jacks Creek CreekThe The 21st running of the Peibody which will be one of the brighest renewals in years next Monday is expected to lure Beaukiss Piet Shy Guy Papa Redbird Billings Caillou Rouge Eagle Look and Woodford Sir SirBomar Bomar Stables Piet one of the top can ¬ didates for the Peabody worked the stakes distance of a mile and an eighth this morning The chestnut son of Grand Slam Valdina Lark was caught in 154 handily The fractions were 50 115 and 140 Joseph A Goodwins Papa Redbird an ¬ other Peabody candidate breezed a mils in 1 40 The son of Balladier reached the half in 48 and the threequarters marie I in 114 A third Peabody candidate Dixianas Shy Guy breezed fiyeeif htht in 103
