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Dozen or More Expected To Vie in Joliet Stakes Mighty Moment, Happy Carrier Expected to Do Battle Tomorrow HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 15. — One of the largest and best fields in the 27-year history of the race is expected here Saturday for the renewal of Lincoln Fields 0,000 Joliet" Stakes for two-year-old colts and geldings. The Joliet annually is the first stake race in Illinois for juveniles. The distance is five furlongs. Twenty-four hours in advance it appears that more than a dozen of the 36 nominees would be named through the entry box" tomorrow morning. Stake winners eligible "make this running shape up as one of the best renewals of the event, to say nothing of the good maidens and promising non-starters who are among the nominees. Among, the latter contingent is" Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffers Fiddle, a highly regarded colt by Roman out of Fairday. Numbered among the probable starters are the stakes winners Mighty Moment and Happy Carrier, the former owned and trained by Milton Resseguet, the latter owned by W. H. Venneman and trained by R. A. Mattingly. Mighty Moment won on January 1. He followed up that victory by winning one division of the Proteus Stakes at New Orleans in February. Happy Carrier won one division of the Lafayette Stakes at Keeneland. Happy Carrier is likely to have the Heliopolis colt, Dean Cavy, as a running mate. Other winners among the prospective starters for the Joliet include Mrs. M. G. Bockmans Prince Marque; Chiles and Kislins Speedrite; D. J. Gleesons Down Yonder; Mrs. Harry Trotseks Lead Pad. Additional prospects include F. L. Flanders East Buck Harry Allsmans Blenriam; Mrs. O. S. Demings Thaxter; Mrs. Emil Dene-marks Bill Burke; Mikel Farms Possess and Absolute; W. A. Mikels In Style; Red Top- Farms Outlaw, and Reverie Knoll Farms Preposterous. About all that would be needed to complete the picture would be the arrival of Sam E. Wilsons Royal Flavor arid Oil Gusher in time for the race. Royal Favor won a division of the Bash-ford Manor Stakes at Churchill Downs last Saturday, while Oil Gusher was an earlier winner. Airplane trips are common for Wilsons horses.
