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» — . _ . Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, HI., June 16. — The Lincoln Fields meeting which closed today was considerably more successful than the preceding session from a. financial standpoint and was also well up in attendance. The only blue note was the failure of a normal percentage of favorites to be successful. In fact, a few- of the choices ran such bad races it led many to wonder if the majority of the public were not at fault in selecting such horses to carry the bulk of the play. Horses in the upper brackets, however, ran fairly well to form. The three-year-old Pur Sang garnered the richest purse when he won the Peabody Memorial, while the Hasty House Farm horses were potent factors in the stakes. Errards Guide, a colt, and Princess Lgyia, a filly were the two-year-old champions. Under the management of Peter J. 0*Don-nell the races went off without a hitch. It had been hoped that next years Lincoln Fields session might be staged at its original site near Crete but as the new highway which would speed up transportation to that track seems to be many months from competion that is doubtful. Ivan Parke will have charge of the strong Fred W. Hooper string at Arlington Park. He has arrived from New York with 10 horses and an additional eight are expected within a day or two ... Keene Daingerfield who will serve as steward at Arlington Park was an .arrival from River Downs Friday . . . Jockey Andy LoTurco left for Omaha Friday night to ride the Mariano Stables recent claim, Hypostyle, in the Kings Plate Handicap at Ak-Sar-Ben, today . . . Jockey Robert Lee Baird states he can make 108 pounds in a breeze and do 105 if required. We were recently misinformed as to the young mans avoirdupois and inadvertantly placed him in the baby blimp class .* . . Apprentice Charles Collins lost two pounds of his "bug" when he won the fourth race Friday. It was his twentieth winner and he is now entitled to but five pounds ... Buddy Hirsch has 20 useful racers here and expects a few more . . . Jockey Johnny Adams felt well enough to ride Friday, but cancelled his mounts when called to appear at investigators offices to present facts regarding his recent hold-up. Mrs. Frank Kilroe, the former Marcellia Cassidy, is expected to join her husband in a few days. The Kilroes will make their home in Evanston during the Arlington Park meeting. . . . The Arlington Park party staged Friday evening was a huge success with Benjamin Lindheimer and Miss Marjorie Lindheimer being a gracious host and hostess. The press was well represented. . . . Among the early birds in the secretarys office at Arlington Park Saturday was Aiden Roark, the new official * in from California; William Reagan, J;he new assistant racing secretary, and Frederic Crafton, that man of many positions. Anthony Pelleteri and John S. Letel-lier, noted New Orleans sportsmen, are expected to visit Arlington some time during the meeting. Trainer Jake Lowen-stein has received a horse from each, Flyaway Jack, owned by Pelleteri, and Mincemeat, owned by Letellier. . . . Paul Kelly is no longer contemplating em-" ploying a valet. Has learned to build his own bow ties. . . . Dixianas good stake horse Shy Guy may be returned to training about the middle of the Arlington meeting. . . . His many friends in this area are pleased with the success the veteran trainer Steve Judge is having with the two-yearrold colt Heap Big Chief on New York tracks. The youngster is by Apache, who supplied five different winners at the Lincoln Fields meeting. Cutty Hunk, who won his first start of the season Friday, is by the English Triple Crown winner Bahram. The latter was imported to the United States, where he stood for a few years, after which he was sold to South American interests. He is now -located in South America. Cutty Hunks dam, War Plumage.won the Washington Handicap in 1940. Her dam was the famous War Feathers, for whom James Cox Brady, one of the breeders and owners of Cutty Hunk, paid 0,500 as a yearling in 1925. This was a worlds record price tor a yearling filly at that time and so re- I LINCOLN FIELDS NOTEBOOK * Continued from Page Three mained until 1946 when two filles known as La Chicuela and Silver Queen, each sold for 4,000. They say that nothing succeeds like success so we are making our bid on opening day at Arlington Park with FIRST SECURITY in the first, BLACK DOUGLAS in the fifth and ROMAN BATH in the sixth.
