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► | Lincoln Fields Notebook *• By J. J. MURPHY HAWTHORNE, Cicero, HI., May 21.— The Edward J. Fleming Memorial Handicap, to be featured at this track Saturday under the sponsorship of the Lincoln Fields Racing Association, may turn out to be a good contest. Although it is not a stake comparable in quality to the bigger events to come at Arlington and Washington Parks, it has its advantages in that it provides the public with a good line on some of the handicap racers. It is preceded only in this area by a couple of short dashes, namely, the Crete Inaugural and the Joliet Stakes and being over the longer seven-furlong distance it naturally creates considerably more interest than the shorter events. Last year Mr. and Mrs. Reuben, of Toledo, won the affair with Wine List, beating out Roman Bath. Wine List is now at stud at Grant Dor-lands Roseland Farm in Kentucky, but Roman Bath is still up and doing and is expected to be a starter. Your correspondent is anxious to view Roman Bath in action once more, and to have the pleasure of again greeting Mr. and Mrs. Reuben. We are particularly interested in that couple, not only because they are pleasant folk, but a fellow must watch his commas and semi-colons when they are about. Insist their farm name be pluralized, Hasty House Farms, that is, and the letter "e" come befoie the letter "u" in their surname. We shall attempt to be correctrln all instances having to do with the spelling of the name of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben and of their farm. If we digress, will blame it on the typewriter. Sometimes these infernal machines dont spell so well. Recall a chap named Livingstone, who had charge of the repairing of typewriters on New York tracks. One afternoon we were attempting to put out some copy, but the crossbar held by a rubber band popped out of place and almost blackened one of our eyes. We called on Mr. Livingstone to take over and when he tried to spell out his name it came up Stanley. An error in mechanism, we presume. But to get back to the Fleming. The event was -named for a noted sportsman of this area who passed away some time ago. It was run oyer the Washington Park course last season, and for the three previous seasons, when it was known as the • Steger Handicap. Delegate, who is now racing in New York, is the only horse to have clicked twice in the affair. And Wendell Eads, Steve Brooks and Anthony Skoronski, all of whom are employed at this track, have steered previous winners. Bob Baird, who won it last year, is in California. Although the Fleming is for three-year-olds and up, it has not been won by a three-year-old since Mountain Ridge took it in 1938. As a matter of fact, since that time but three three-year-olds have been in the money, and all have finished third. Ivan Thomas, the new racing secretary at Arlington and Washington Parks who checked into Chicago the other morning, was being shown about the plant by Duke Penter. Ivan promised us a yarn on his Continued on Page Thirty-One Lincoln Fields Notebook * By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three background and early California experiences for next week. His chief assistant here will be Bill Milner, one-time good * rider and later right hand man for racing - secretary Charles F. Henry at the Detroit [ Fair Grounds. Have said it before and will say it again that Milner is one of the best J racing secretary office men I have ever seen, and should have been a "sec" in his : own right along ago. He makes his home in Arcadia, Calif., but was born and raised . in the East. He has one son who is nick- named Duke... Roman Sandal, a Fleming : Memorial candidate, was injured in a colli- J sion near Chicago Heights this morning. The colt is owned by Kirkpatrick and Dunn, j and John Heckmann had been engaged to i ride him in Saturdays race. Also in the [ crack -up were a couple of horses owned by Doug Davis. The horses were being con- : veyed from Louisville in public vehicles. Jockey Johnny Adams, who at this : writing has won with 12 of his last 14 ■ mounts, deserves all the cheers the Chi- t cago public can offer. This is a great „ little guy who took a beating at the . hands of hoodlums last year, came back j to the races with his bruises and rode i his best until so exhausted from his whipping he was forced to cancel his remaining mounts. Adams rode to prove that the hoodlums could not scare him. It seems fitting that, such a guy should be the author of what may be regarded as a new turf record in his recent feats. Had he been big enough in stature to be a soldier in Korea he might have won top honors. It is very healthy for racing to realize that your top jockey does not become too tired.- Adams rides em out and if he ever ceases to do so, he and many of his friends are going to have a serious falling out. We dont have the exact figures on Adams. Know he first won national honors as the leading jockey in America in 1937, and your correspondent had the pleasure of presenting him with the Daily Racing Form plague. He did it again in 1942 and 1943 and last year, following a lapse of almost 10 seasons, we found him fighting for it again Trainer John Conway is in with eight for Augustus andand Nahm from Louisville . . . Mrs. J. Amherd, one of the few women trainers now active on the turf, has shipped Quatre Blanc, Reedon, and Garble to Fair-mount Park... The three-year-old filly, Markenko, recently broke a bone in her knee and was destroyed. . .Trainer Tom Root was the fellow who introduced the Negro apprentice Hosea Richardson to Chicago patrons last summer. We understand that Richardson is now an exercise boy for C. V Whitney. . .The thoroughbred Country Editor beat the bell. Got a reprieve from being shipped to Waterford Park when Hal Bishop claimed him. . .Imperial Rock, Check Out, Tuxedo, Inky Racer, Heavenly Hash, and several other runners have checked in from Laurel . . . Second edition of the Lincoln Fields condition books is out.
