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Master Bid Goes in Cameo Handicap Grissom Sprinter ? • Has Eight Rivals Aims for Third Straight of Sportsmans Meeting as He Faces Late Thread and Dad ; SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, 111., • May 6. — Perne L. Grissoms Master Bid, i already having projected himself into the ? limelight on the heels of a pair of the most J impressive winning races of the meeting, has an opportunity to add further to his " laurels when he engages the best horses on the grounds in the ,000 Cameo Handi-■ cap here tomorrow afternoon. The gelding i has started only twice this year and is 5 girding for a campaign at the stakes-studded Detroit meeting, for which he is ] slated to depart next week. I Should he emerge victorious in the 1 Cameo, a seven-furlong sprint for three-year-olds and upward, he will have a powerful claim to the local championship. Obviously racing secretary and handicap-per Horace Wade rates the chestnut son of Phychic Bid — Light Brocade, by the Porter, highly, for he has weighted him at 120 pounds, which is the same impost to be carried by Mrs. John L. Oglesbys Late Thread, winner of last Saturdays Chicago Handicap. Other highweights in the field are William H. Bishops stretch-running Dad, 115; P. J. Valentis Caillou Rouge, 113, and Marion H. VanBergs Sir White, 110. Others slated to start are Woolford Farms Approval, 108; VanBergs Henny Penny, who will run coupled with Sir White; Fertile Lands, 107, a stablemate of Sir White, and Ben Fogelsons Ration Book, 105. Trio Cost 0,000 Master Bid and Fertile Lands, oddly, were included in a trio of horses that Grissom purchased from the Brookmeade Stable last year for 0,000. The other was Dinner Hour. All of them have been frequent winners since. Master Bid came out of winter inactivity on the opening day of the meeting and galloped to the easiest kind of a victory over One Blue, Bubbling Easy, and others. On Wednesday of this week he came back against decidedly better company and won with even more consummate ease, running the fastest five furlongs of the session up to that time, in 1:021/5 with 120 pounds up. Those who are familiar with his excellent record of last year against the best horses in the Detroit area and the impressive manner in which he routed his opposition here undoubtedly will make him a heavy favorite. Late Thread, who has been heralded as the local queen for several seasons, is top-weight of the field, according to scale, and there are many who think the courageous eight-year-old will get up in time to register her second handicap victory of the meeting. In last Saturdays Chicago, which was decided at a mile and one -sixteenth, she was far back during the early part, but closed with her characteristic spectacular rush to beat Bodens Pal by a nose, while others in back of her were Super-wolf, Dad, Blue Agent, Mae Agnes, Ration Book, Park Pigeon, Caillou Rouge and Approval, many of whom will be in the Cameo. Sprinting definitely is not Late Threads forte, however, but often she surprises with her versatility. She still holds the track record for two miles and 70 yards at Hawthorne. Dad was in last Saturdays Chicago and showed a good, even race, but came back this week with a splendid score at seven-eighths over Henny Penny, Play Hands, and others. Sir White was third in the Inaugural Handicap at the distance of the Cameo. The five-year-old flashed to the front in that test but tired as if in need of further racing. Great improvement, consequently, is anticipated. At one time, Sir White was regarded as a champion over this half mile course. Caillou Rouge, winner of the Inaugural, turned in an unaccountably poor race in last Saturdays Chicago. He was unable to match strides with the early leaders and gave up the chase completely in the final phases. There is an adjustment in weights that should react in his favor.
