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Eventful Week of Racing At Hollywood Park Track One Track Mark Set and Another Equaled; Will Rogers to Forelock By W. A. WILLIG Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., May 26. The creation of one new track record, the equalling of another and the victory of Mrs. Edward Laskers Forelock in the Will Rogers Handicap were the highlights of the past week of. racing at Hollywood Park. The one to shatter a track record was the two-year-old Little Request, a chestnut son of Requested and Little Wichita, for whom Joe Palmisano paid 0,500 at last summers Keeneland sales. This youngster sped five furlongs in :57Vs and won by five lengths, pulled up, to suggest that had he been pressed, he might have shaded the worlds mark of :57, which Ecantadora, then a three-year-old, established last summer at Denvers Centennial track. Mrs. J. P. Adams Miche, winner of the last Santa Anita Handicap, equaled the Hollywood Park mark of 1:21, in an overnight feature last week-end, to beat King and Luellwitz Moonrush, winner of the Santa Anita Handicap the year before by a couple of lengths. Johnny Longden was astride both little Request and Miche in their speed demonstrations. An element of luck was connected with Forelocks triumph in the 5,000 Will Rogers, in which three-year-olds met over six furlongs, for C. H. Jones and Sons Warcos, who was beaten only two noses, was forced to take up sharply hear the end when a loose horse, the riderless Tiger Sir, swerved over on him. Warcos appeared well on his way to victory when he was impeded by the King and Luellwitz horse, who had thrown his rider leaving the gate. Forelock, however, turned in a sharp performance, for he ran the distance in 1:09, and it was his second victory of the meeting.
