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. Eight Speedsters Contest Potranco Mon-Pharo Choice in Lincoln Event Beat Good Field in His Only Race Thjs Year; Tottenham And Cacomo Dangerous Foes HAWTHORNE, Cicero, HI., May 27. Nine races are carded for Lincoln Fields mid-week program at Hawthorne tomorrow leading up to the big double holiday on Friday and Saturday when the Peabody Memorial Stakes and the new Narcissus Handicap, respectively, will be the attractions. Racing secretary L. C. Bogenschutz came up with an excellent program for tomorrow featuring the Toro Purse at six and one-half furlongs for three-year-olds, and the Potranco Purse, at six furlongs, for four-year-olds and upward, each carrying a ,000 value. There are also two races for maiden two-year-old fillies which might point out some candidates for the Miss America Stakes to be run on June 7, nominations for which close at midnight Thursday. Eight good sprinters were entered for the Potranco. They include Reverie Knoll Farms five-year-old Easy Mon gelding, Mon-Pharo, winner of his only start this year at Churchill Downs on Derby Day when he beat Hasty House Farms Inseparable, J. S. Bradleys Sun David, and other good ones. Mon-Pharo picked up where he left off in 1950 with three consecutive wins, one of which was at the Hawthorne meeting. He duplicated that performance in his next start at Keeneland, where his victims included Boodle, Dixie Flyer, arid others. His next and final start of the year was at Louisville, where he won a neck decision from Delta Eagle. Toro Purse Draws-Seven In the Potranco Purse, Mon-Pharo will meet Mrs. Herbert Hurffs Screemin Jack, W. H. Bishops Tattenham, E. C. Roths Challcote, Wilsons Air Mail and Red Top Farms Stop Gap. All but Screemin Jack, who won three last year, and the former Arkansas Derby winner, Cacomo, have been victorious this season. , Seven three-year-olds will meet in the Toro Purse, honoring one of the best three-year-olds of 1928, a vintage crop, and one of the" best of the century and including Reigh Count, Victorian, Misstep, and other high class horses of that era. Named to contest the Toro Purse are Emerald Hill Stables Blue Square, Reverie Knoll Farms War Antique, Louis J. Hollenbachs Eljay, B. W. Landys Plunger, M. H. VanBergs McGrathiana, George Wynhoff s Chief Osceola, and Brown Hotel Stables Ave, the latter the only filly in the race, but one with the best record of the seven rivals. She won six of her 18 starts last season, also placed seven times. In three starts so far this year she has two seconds and a third. In one of these she finished second to Calumet Farms brilliant Real Delight in a division of the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland. Blue Square, Plunger, and Chief Osceola, winners at two, have also won this season. War Antique, McGrathiana, and Eljay, all good winners as juveniles, have started only a few times this year. In his only start Eljay finished second to White Skies at Keeneland. War Antique and McGrathiana were both unplaced in two starts this season. The two-year-old maiden filly races are named for Anita Peabody, one of the best fillies ever bred in Illinois, and also one of the best in the iirst half of the present century, and for Pansy Walker, one of the first daughters of Sir Gallahad m. These two races are splits of the original first in the condition book. Nine drew into the Anita Peabody, which will be run as the third race, while ten were named to start in the Pansy Walker Purse, which, like the Anita Peabody, carries a ,500 purse.
