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Seven Sprinters in Supremus Purse Well Worth It Out * After Repeat Win Brown Smoke and Inky Racer Assured Strong Support in Feature at Homewood Today WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, 111., May 15. — A six-furlong sprint, exclusively for three-year-olds and named the Supremus for the first winner of the Crete Handicap, is the best race offered for the second day of the Lincoln Fields meeting. It will bring out a field of seven, four of whom were members of the Sportsmans Park racing brigade and a trio from the hinterlands. Those of the patrons who glimpsed the Cicero offerings are familiar with the activities of Minorome, Inky Racer, Open Way and Pensive Lady. They will be obliged to delve into the archives of winter and early spring racing to familiarize themselves with Brown Smoke, Well Worth It and Lady of Time. Jockey Johnny Adams, in from the West Coast via Kentucky, will have his squat frame in the saddle of Well Worth It, who will race in the interest of W. H. Wick-ham, Paul Bailey, who rode Royal Mustang to second place in the Kentucky Derby, will be aboard Brown Smoke for owner J. H. Dunn, and Paul Domenico will steer Lady of Time, who will perform in the silks of Mey-Well Acres. Other reinsmen taking part will be Sportsmans Parks leading apprentice, Clarence Carl Smith, who will ride Minorome for Locust Lawn Farm; Pat Moore, who will be up on Jimmy Emerys Pensive Lady, and Harold Keene on William Hal Bishops Open Way. No rider has as yet been named for Henry Forrests Inky Racer. Speedy Daughter of Apache Of the trio who have yet to race in Illinois this spring, Well Worth It, who is a daughter of the speedy Apache, has turned in victories in two of her last three outings. She won her last race at Gulfstream Park and came to Keeneland, where she started twice, and in one of those efforts she was returned a winner. Brown Smoke started seven times during the winter meeting at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans. He won at the first asking in December, but since then, a second and a third were his best races. Lady of Time has yet to finish in the money this year, but is no stranger around these parts, having won at Hawthorne last October. Inky Racer and Open Way each have one victory to show for their campaigns at Sportsmans Park, while Pensive Lady did not click at the half-miler, but was a double winner at Gulfstream Park this year. The seventh race brings out a good field of sprinters, and Pad Lock, Rose Red, Provident and Kay Gibson likely will furnish the most contention for the lions share of the purse.
