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1 "" I!1 -i;11; v TuDGES STANDI " By Charles Hatton I False May Increase Lincoln Distribution New Racing Manual Valuable Reference Sandtop Dark Horse of Rich Peabody Porters Broom, Now Eight, Still Winning HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 23. Chicagoans are promised quite a spirited sprint stake here this week-end, with such as Spur On, Seaward, Inseparable, Dr. Ole Nelson, Andy B. W., Roman Sandal, and Mail From Home in the field for the 0,000 Fleming of six and a half furlongs. Larry Bogenschutz makes many close handicaps, and this is reflected in the fact there are a dozen acceptances for the event of honoring Lincolns late president. Hasty House won it with Wine List last spring and has named Seaward and Inseparable, who are coupled so often they are practically "going steady," for this renewal. It will be interesting to see how Roman Sandal fares. He was involved in a five-way motor accident near Washington Park the other day, but is said to have escaped, rather miraculously, without a scratch. He raced at Kiver Downs last season, and in Kentucky this spring earned an opportunity of proving a stakes horse when he began racing for ,000 and won four straight while advancing to ,500. Mail From Home is another entrant who races for ,000 without stirring haltermens interest, and who will attempt to better himself in this stake. The Fleming is worth more to the Mikels than to any other owners represented. Were their homebred False to win it, he would earn a breeders award of 10 per cent , of the net as a product of the stud in Illinois. False was developed at New Orleans last winter, winning the Letellier and Le Compte. He then came to Chicago and won the Crete here opening day. On the whole this son of Hypocrite is about the best performer bred in the Prairie State in recent years. But Bogenschutz estimates that a Calumet castoff, Spur On,, is the one-to-beat, with a weight assignment of 116 pounds. Trainer Howard "Babe" Wells may have two to saddle in the Fleming, having named both Sun David, who won here yesterday, and Dr. Ole Nelson. The latter holds the mile and a quarter track record of 2:01 at Hawthorne Park, though the muddy track-condition today makes it seem unlikely there will be any incursions on the time marks. Some of the field will reappear for the longer mile and a sixteenth Narcissus Handicap on May 31, and the mile and a quarter of the 0,000 Lincoln Handicap on June 14. Seaward, Dr. Ole Nelson, Sun David, Inseparable and False all are sufficiently versatile to stay middle distances. The new American Racing Manual is in circulation and there "is a copy in the press box here at Lincoln-at-Hawthorne. Three racing correspondents have had oc-? casion to refer to it in the last five minutes. It is no exaggeration to say, "The Manual" is as indispensable to the craft as their typewriters, or Mr. Bells invention. And it is a must, not only in the libraries of those intimately connected with the sport, but also any laymen who wish to be really well informed. Limited editions are published, and earlier editions have become collectors items. The American Racing Manual is a comprehensive, factual, unabridged, permanent record of the thoroughbred sport in virtually all its phases, and it has more ramifications than any other sport. There also are many chapters devoted to breeding, which is the story behind the story of racing. The Manual includes tabulated records of all the stakes of any consequence on this continent, and the most important ones abroad. There are departments on stallions, owners, trainers and jockeys standings, the yearling sales, leading money winners, highest-priced horses, racing rules, weight scales, time records, purse distribution, tax methods and attendance and wagering totals. Additionally there is a diary of the past seasons highlights, a chapter on the origin of the thoroughbred, a review of racing in 51, a review of the best horses of the year, and the performance records of thousands of horses-in-training; It has been expanded and improved with the addition of new departments each year since its inception in 06 until it has become a truly monumental work. No other country in the racing world, and no other sport, boasts anything quite like it. "Dark Horse" of the Peabody Memorial prospects is W. W. Stones Sandtop, a recent arrival from Churchill Downs, where he came from behind and beat Happy Go Lucky in the Armed Forces Handicap. A maiden as recently as February 19, when he won his diploma at Hialeah Park, the Some Chance colt has since been improving steadily for trainer "Buck" Hazzard and was beaten a photo by Sky Ship and Handsome -Teddy in the Florida Derby before moving north. His progress, like that of Counterpoint a year ago, is construed by some observers as an argument for later closings in three-year-old stakes. Stone is a Cincinnati broker and, so far as we know, Sandtop is the best horse that has come his way up to now. He is another, like Blue Man, Jampol, Gushing Oil and Arroz, who raced in claimers at two, when he failed to win in seven starts though he ran for ,000 on May 2, 51, at Churchill Downs and for 0,000 on June 7 at Detroit. It is difficult to recall a season in which so many of the stakes three-year-olds were developed from among the previous years two-year-old platers. Turf ana: Gift Silver made Life," though not the Derby. . . . The jockeys room at Arlington Park has been enlarged. . . . Penaway, who races for ,000, is by the Derby H winner Whirlaway, out of Penicuik, dam of the Derby winner Pensive. . . . Lincoln-at-Hawthorne officials have an intercommunication system with the starter and patrol judges. . . . "Duke" Dahlstrom sent in the Peabody nominations of Count Flame and Master Fiddle as his last official act for Lincoln Fields. . . . Tom Healeys grandson, Graham, may see the Garden State stakes named for the noted trainer and steward. . . . Roman Sandal, now a stakes horse, was sold as a yearling by Neville Dunn and Haden Kirkpatrick, who refunded the purchasers money when he expressed dissatisfaction with his bargain, though they were not legally bound to do so under sales rules. . . . That class really tells. Old Porters Broom, now eight, has been marked down to race for ,500, and races tightly bandaged in front, nevertheless beats horses half his age. . . . Local punster flips, "Not all the horses here are Big Names, but the play is capital." . . . The Classic of 00,000 at a flat mile is expected to attract Tom Fool, whose stablemate, Hall of Fame, won it last summer. . . . Bob Carey of the Hawthorne club is residing at the track. m ... Lincoln has not yet carded races on the turf course.
