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4 i Peabody Memorial Field Taking Shape Smoke Screen, Dance Nsing And Red Charger Latest to Show Readiness for Stake HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 26. As the Lincoln Fields Racing Association prepares for its big week-end double holiday next Friday and Saturday at Hawthorne several candidates for the 5,000 Peabody Memorial have gained additional stature through recent performances, while the prospective field for the Memorial Day fixture has steadily been shaping up. Reverie Knoll Farms Smoke Screen and Buddah Stables reformed plater, Dance Nsing, are the latest candidates for the one and one-eighth mile Peabody to gain new supporters as a result of their battle in the Peabody Prep last Saturday. Smoke Screen, the winner, was. only a head in front of the Buddah gelding at the finish of the mile and one-sixteenth. Last Wednesday Red Top Farms Red Charger won a close decision over Mrs. Sayde Smiths Our Beauty in the six-furlong Sun Beau Purse. All four of these are expected to start in the big race next Friday for which 28 three-year-olds were nominated. The proximity of the Belmont Stakes on June 7 is likely to have little effect on the. Peabody beyond making "Dixianas Sub Fleet the most prominent absentee. Smoke Screens owner, Freeman Keyes, Chicago advertising executive, has been a real sportsman since he came into the game a few years ago. Whenever he has I a horse with even an outside chance he enters and runs in stakes because he likes to see his colors in the big ones. In Smoke Screen, he appears to have one of the best prospects he has owned. Keyes Reverie Knoll Farm of 700 acres is located near Danville, ky., where the Chlcagoan has i launched on a career as a thoroughbred breeder. Smoke Screen ,000 Purchase Keyes purchased Smoke Screen for ,000 out of the Saratoga yearling sales in 1950. Although he failed to win at two, he placed six times and more than won himself out, earning 2;355 his first year of racing. He has won three races this year, earning an additional 4,790. He finished second to Gushing Oil in the Arkansas Derby, and third to the same colt in the Blue Grass Stakes. By his good effort in the Peabody Prep, Dance Nsing earned a crack at the big race Friday. He had previously won two races this year, the latest on May 15 at the Lincoln Fields meeting. Red Chargers game race in the Sun Beau definitely made Irving S. Florsheims colt a starter in the Peabody, barring mishaps. The Sun Beau was his first victory of the year in six starts, but he finished second to Whither in the Los Feliz States at Santa Anita and third to the Irish-bred importation, Windy City II. In the San Felipe Handicap at the same track. Our Beautys latest victory was won at Hot Springs on March 18 at the direct expense of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Daniels Jet Ace, another Peabody nominee now quartered at Arlington Park. Also stabled at Arlington awaiting the Peabody are Marcador and Dark Count, owned by the partnership of Allison and Prestridge, of New Mexico. The balance of the Peabody field will come from among the following nominees : H. G. Bookmans Happy Go- Lucky, Sam E. Wilson Jr.s Gushing Oil, W. W. Stones Sandtop, Walmac Farms Blue Licks, Clifford Mooers Klohomie, Lucien Knight Jr.s Baybrook, Irving W. Huggetts Yale-man, Hasty House Farms Sea Ripple, L. J. Hollenbachs Nanchang, Emil Denemark, Jr.s, Stuyvesant, and one of the Emerald Hill Stables quartet, Eternal Moon, Blue Dare, Blue Shore and Blue Square.
