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Mesabi Wins Illinois Breeders Purse" Downs Bidandmade With Late Charge 5 TO Favorite for Lincoln Fields £ Sprint Unable to Stave Off g Bid of Shady Brook Gelding g WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, HI., £ June 12?— Today was Illinois Breeders Day " at the Lincoln Fields races. The annual S rn meeting of the organization was to take O place in the evening, and the featured m position on the program was held down q by a claiming event designated the Illinois Breeders. The winner was Mesabi, one of "* the outsiders, who came from some dis- c tance back in the stretch to be up in the 2-closing strides to beat the favored Bidand- _ made, with Brown Smoke finishing in third y position. — ■ Mesabi, a son of Blue Flyer, is owned by *2 the Shady Brook Farm, and had one previous start at Washington Park this season in which he finished second. He won but pne race in 30 starts last year, but had raced against such as Fanfare, Whirling Bat, and Light Broom during the winter and early spring. He paid 5.80 and was ridden by Job Dean Jessop. A full field went to the post for the ,500 purse, and Bidandmade was soon urged to the front by jockey Earl Knapp, with Char S. V. following closely and Mesabi being badly outrun. After leaving the backstretch Mesabi made a move between horses and then came to the outside in the last eighth for the run to the finish line. For an instant it did not seem as if Mesabi would get up, but with Bidandmade lacking a great deal of finishing power due to her early efforts, the gelding wore her down and was drawing out by a half length at the end. Daily Double of 49 The winner was greeted upon his return to the encloseure by Miss Joyce Bolton, of Milton, 111., winner of the annual scholarship award by the National Association of Thoroughbred Breeders. A 49.00 Daily Double pay-off resulted when a pair of outsiders accounted for the first two races. Emory A., racing in the colors of C. J. Martin and ridden by apprentice Al Widman, won the opener when he outfinished the favored Swirling, while Phantom Heels, with Robert Baird aboard, bested Rosily, another longshot, in the second, with Sgt. Brown, the public choice, getting third money. .The win for Emory A. was his fifth of the year, a fair record for a cheap horse. It was the initial score of the season for the nine-year-old Phantom Heels, who won 10 of his 30 starts last year. Maiden two-year-old fillies to the number of a dozen tried for the third race, and when Merry Thought, the favorite, raced to the outside fence on the stretch turn, the second choice, Em, came on to be a clever winner. Em, forced to, ease back early when outrun after breaking from inside post position, worked her way up gradually. Earl Knapp was the rider and Murray Hill Farm the owner. Em, a black daughter of Bless Me, was making her eleventh start.
