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, ■ 4 Lincoln Fields Notebook By J, J. MURPHY WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, HI., May 16. — A goodly crowd took advantage of summerlike weather to turn out for the , opening opening of of the the Lincoln Lincoln opening opening of of the the Lincoln Lincoln Fields meeting. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Bruce, of Evanston, HI., who entertained a party of 10 at luncheon in the clubhouse, William J. McCormack, president of Lincoln Fields who had Miss Frances Pol-ley, secretary of that track as one of the members members of of his his party, party, members members of of his his party, party, Mrs. William J. OBrien, Mrs. Claude Chatel and Mrs. Ed. Ziegers, who were guests of Mrs. Peter ODonnell, wife of the general manager of Lincoln Fields . , . Also in the large inaugural crowd were Stuy-vesant Peabody, Jr., chairman of the Illinois Racing Board; J. H. Dunn, of Oak Park, owner of the good colt Oh Leo, Vincent Buckley and Peter A. ONeil, of the Fleming Coal Company, who hosted a party of 20 . . . Edwin C. Roth, Chicago coal company executive and horse owner, hosted a clubhouse party . . . John D. Jackson, general manager of Washington and Arlington Parks, and Bob Henderson, also an official at those tracks, were present. Sammy Roberts, having had plenty of saddle practice while serving as outrider at Sportsmans Park, returned to his jockey chores with the opening of the Lincoln session. The 34-year-old should be fit for aside from his redcoat duties he exercises 20 or more horses each morning during the spring. Roberts was at one time affiliated with Ben Jones when the latter had charge of the Wool-ford Farm Stable horses and still obtains an occasional mount from Plain Ben when the Missourian has a pair running in the Calumet silks. Sammy was one of the leading riders at Fairmount Park last year and rode Say Blue to victory in the 1946 Princess Pat Stakes at Washington Park . . . Milton Resseguet, trainer of the J. H. Dunn horses, is very proud of the two-year-old Oh Leo, winner of the first juvenile stakes race of the year. That was the Duncan F. Ken-ner Stakes at New Orleans. The colt will be pointed for the Joliet Stakes here. Jockey Charlie Swain, one of the hard luck riders of the American turf, is here to do the saddle work for Reverie Knoll Farm which is owned by Freeman Keyes, radio advertising executive of Chicago and Hollywood. Swain was the regular rider of With Pleasure previous to his early duels with Armed. The boy then met with an accident that necessitated his absence from the turf for one year. Charlie is 32 and hails from St. Louis . . . Among the horses in the Keyes stable are the three-year-old fillies Flyamanita, winner of the Princess Pat and Pollyanna Stakes last year, and Smoke Screen, who finished second in the recent Bashford Manor Stakes. Keyes maintains a farm at Danville, Ky., and has Jay Burton as his trainer and Frank Sanders as assistant trainer . . Continued on Page Thirty-Four LINCOLN FIELDS NOTEBOOK i Continued from Page Three William and Jack Johnston of Sportsmans Park attended the Lincoln opening. P. L. Grissom, who has charge of the Chevrolet agencies in Detroit, wouldnt miss a Motor City meeting for the world. Therefore, he has ordered trainer W. J. Susini to ship his horses to the Michigan track where the meeting gets under way late this month... Roy Dickerson, who did such a good job of dispatching the fields at Sportsmans Park, left for his Miami home at the conclusion of that meeting. He will return to do the starting at Arlington Park. . . . First stable to check into Arlington was that owned by Rex Ellsworth, Arizona and California turfman, and trained by M. A. "Mickey" Tenney. As well as a few older horses, they have some promising two-year-olds by the imported stallion, Khaled. They are the first crop of the latter whose services are much in demand in the West . . . Emil Roehm who was a patrol judge at Sportsmans Park, will fill in at the Lincoln meeting for a few days before leaving for Fairmount Park. Two men from famous families of riders are here in the person of Willie Garner, last of the great riding Garners to remain in the saddle, and Rufus Shilling, brother of the famous Cal Shilling. Garner will ride free lance here while Shilling, last trainer to leave Gulfstream Park this year, has a number of horses in his care . . . Keith Carter, of the mid-western division of the TRPB, got in for the opening . . Doyle Lamb, who made the headlines when he replaced Keene on a couple of winners at the Cicero track, is journeying to Fair-mount for the opening there. Also making the trip is jockey Andy Popara ... Ralph Stubbs, who serves as racing secretary on the Nebraska fair circuit which takes in tracks at Lincoln, Madison, Mitchell and Columbus, was a visitor at Sportsmans getaway day. Departed for Omaha Tuesday to take in the opening days racing at that point. Incidentally, the head of the Madison, Neb., track is Earl Moyer, former president of the National Association of State Racing Commissioners. Large fields for tomorrow give the public plenty of chance from which to select a few. We select ICANC in the fourth; OBSTINATE SI in the seventh, and DOUBLE WHORL in the eighth.
