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► ■ ■ — ► Porters Broom to Give Eight Foes in Domino Purse Weight Eagle River Makes Seasonal i Bow Today in Top Sprint on Lincoln-at-Washington Card WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, HI., June 5. — A field of nine sprinting four-year-olds and up have been named for the Domino Purse, which is slightly the best race on tomorrows program at this track. Ray Ankenbauer will start an entry in Famous Shake and Porters Broom, while Countess In and Warsick will be coupled as the Endovina and Alesia and the Mrs. M. J. Hughes entry. Others in the field are Mrs. Helen S. Reinemans Eagle River, Ralph Lowes Clear Day, higene Constan-tin, Jr.s, Pnut Vendor, Emerald Hill Stables Little Captain, and Howard Wells Fox Mor. The distance will be six furlongs and Porters Broom, a seven-year-old, who won his only start this season, will be top-weight with 121 pounds. The Domino will he the first start of the season for Eagle River, a five-year-old gelding who has turned in some good recent trials. Eagle River* won seven races last year. He dead-heated with I Will in the Princeton Handicap at Garden State. Aside from his victories, the Reineman racer placed nine times. Pnut Vendor has also been a consistent runner, especially at this meeting. He was second on three occasions prior to his recent success and has not failed to get some part of the purse in his last 13 starts. Set Track Mark at Havana Course While racing in Florida last winter Little Captain was shunted over to Havana for three races, one of which he won in track record time at the Mariano course. In his other races in Cuba he was second once and fourth once. Little Captain has failed in two appearances at this track but could be just coming to himself. Clear Day won his first and only start here by four lengths, while Warsick was successful at Hot Springs before coming to Chicago. Countess In was second to Dixianas good filly, Wondring, in her most recent essay. The secondary feature of the day will.be named for another noted stallion of yesteryear, Ben Brush. The distance will be seven furlongs and an overflow field of three-year-olds will compete. Dixianas good filly, Astro, who will shortly be sent East for the Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park, is on the also-eligible list but may be one of the favorites if she obtains the oppor- 3wiCsttB*»». x sr A w Jl WALTER M. JEFFORDS— Loyal Legion gave the eastern sportsman his first victory of the Delaware Park meeting. tunity to run. Astro finished second to the Coaching Club American Oaks winner, How, in the Kentucky Oaks. Still another good race on the bill is the Fair Play Purse, also at seven furlongs, and Futuresque, who had a victory string of three before fmishing second last time out, will be among the starters in. the eight-horse field. Tax Lien, Son Charlie and Jetsam, a recent winner on the grass, are among the other scheduled starters. The fourth race has been named the TRA, in honor of the visit to Lincoln Fields of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, president of the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, and Spencer Drayton, executive secretary of the TRA, as well as president of the TRPB.
