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Lincoln Fields Notebook ; By J. J.-MURPHY HAWTHORNE, Cicero, HI., May 27. The Peabody Memorial, to be run here Friday, will not engage such, Kentucky Derby contenders as it did last season, but nevertheless will bring out a field of three-year-olds who are expected to be prominent in Chicago racing circles during the coming summer. Last season Royal Mustang and Ruhe, who had just finished second and third, respectively, to Count Turf in the bier race, came up from the Blue Grass to fill the same positions in the Peabody, which was won by the outsider, Pur Sang. This season Sub Fleet and Blue Man, wjio raced closest to Hill Gail, are engaged in the East, so Happy Go Lucky, Gushing Oil, Smoke Screen and Eternal Moon are just about the only 1952 Derby runners with a chance to appear. Of the thoroughbreds having finished in the money in previous Peabody Memorials, Ruhe, third last year;. Sun David, second in 1950, and Siddons, third in 1947, have been starters at this meeting. Sun David has been a winner, while Ruhe recently finished second. Siddons has dropped down to cheap claiming ranks. Sun David finished first in his year, but was disqualified and placed second to Lot O Luck. Johnny Adams, who rode the winner, Viscounty, in 1941, and came back last year on Pur Sang, will have a mount in Fridays race as will Ken Church, who rode Lot O Luck. They" are the only two boys on the grounds to have scored in the race previously. Pur Sang toted 126 pounds last year, highest weight ever carried by a Reabody winner. The tightest fit for the honors in this particular event came about in 1945, when Quizzle, trying for his second straight success in the race, was forced to accept a dead heat with Epsino Gold. In those days the event was for three-year-olds and up. Since that time it has been for three -year-olds exclusively. Incidentally, when Quizzle and Espino Gold battled it. out, the latter was eight years old, while Quizzle was seven. Mike Zeller, who will serve in an official capacity at Waterford Park, de-. parted for that point . . Bill Burke, the demon telegrapher, is back on the job following the settlement of the W. U. strike. . .Chuck Duval, well known Chicago publicity man, was a" visitor. . . Horsemen here are happy at the success of Harold "Red" Keene, who is now riding in New England, and is leading the American jockeys. Keene was a regular on Chicago courses for many seasons . . Fashioned won her second race of the meeting Monday. Betweer successes she finished twelfth. Track conditions were to blame... Jack Dempsey, the West Continued on Page Thirty-One r I Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three Coast racing: man, sends word that his father and mother attended their first Kentucky Derby and were the guests of Ben Jones Ak-Sar-Ben stake books have arrived. Outstanding feature of the meeting-, which is now in progress, is the Ak-Sar-Ben Handicap, 0,000 added to be run July 5. Some handicap stars now racing in the Chicago area may take part. It was reported in this column Monday that the pari-mutuel handle here was showing an increase of about 10 per cent. It should have read 30 per cent, and is now about 35. . .Dr. Alex Harthill expects to remain in the Chicago area for about 0 days following which he plans to go to Detroit . . .Was much interested in Nelson Dun-stans report on the Queens Plate inasmuch as it was the first important race your reporter ever witnessed.. Father took me to see Inferno win it many years ago. We journeyed 40 miles by passenger boat, and rode a street car to Woodbine, which was then well out in the country. As Nelson stated, Inferno was owned by Joseph Seagram, who was one of the big three of Canadian thoroughbred owners of that period, the others being William Hendrie, who raced under the nom de course of the Valley Farm Stable, and A. 13. Dyment, who raised thoroughbreds at Barrie, Ont. Believe that Dyment had a few Kings Plate winners. The Seagram colors were black with yellow sash, the Hendrie silks, brown and yellow, and the Dyment colors orange and green. Howard Wells, who trains one of the largest stables here, is in Lexington on a business trip, but will return in a few days . Job Dean Jessop has been engaged to ride Andy B. W. in Saturdays Narcissus Handicap1, and Bernard Hokin, one of the owners of Andy B. W., has sold his interest in the latter and other horses to Maurice Black. The other horses are Ernie M., Laura J. W., Judge J. B., and Kathy W . . .AI Gaal, formerly one of the top trainers on this circuit, is visiting from St. Louis. He is without racing stock for the first time in many years . . E. L. Friedberg, who owns a few horses here, is visiting from his home in Louisville. . .Jockey Ken Church will have the mount on Smoke Screen in the Pea-body Memorial. News reached here that William Veene-man, chairman of the board of directors of Churchill Downs, is resting easily following an operation. . .If Tim OToole, a groom formerly employed by Stanley Hazzard and whose home is believed to be in Indianapolis, will get in touch with Dan Chappell at the Pan-American Building, Miami, Fla., he will learn something to his advantage . . .Ted Cox, Illinois racing official, will be a guest on Tom Duggans "Lets Look at Sports" program on Channel 5 Friday night at 10:30. . .Trainer Morrie Sidell arrived from Maryland with ten horses . .Mrs. J. E. Harkins has sold Red Sam to Jack Sher at private transaction.
