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Eight Match Speed in War Minstrel Card Lincoln Race 4 At Mile, Sixteenth Best Doings, Convidado, Flap Not and Brezno AmongThose Fancied in Chief Offering HAWTHORNE, Cicero, HI., May 31.— The War Minstrel Purse for four-year-old and older horses at a mile arid one-sixteenth, and the Hygro Purse for maiden two-year-olds, are the major attractions on Mondays program as Lincoln Fields begins the fourth week of its highly successful meeting at Hawthorne. Eight were named for the War Minstrel. All are winners this year and seem to comprise an exceptionally well-matched field. They will run with claiming tags ranging in value from ,000 to ,500. Ten juveniles in search of a first win were entered for the Hygro .Purse at five furlongs. Meeting in the War Minstrel will be: Mrs. Lora Birrs Bashful Sun, 109; Emerald Hill Stables Flap Not, 115; A. E. Harpers Battle H., 112; George Wynhoffs Kanza, 112; N. G. Bouchards Happy East, .113; Mrs. A. M. Creechs Convidado, 112; B. W. Landys Best Doings, 118, and Mrs. Joan Martins Brezno, 110. The latter Florida-bred gelded son of the once popular Chicago campaigner, Mucho Gusto, has won three races this season, but was unplaced behind Signal Code, Famous Shake and Raintree in his only start at this meeting on May 29. He was a winner of six races last year. Best Doings won here on May 23 for his second victory of the year, then finished fourth to Can Locate, Lucky Codine and Happy East in his next start on May 26. The last named scored his second victory of the season at Hawthorne on May 21, which, with a previous win on April 18 at Gulfstream made it two in a row for the Bouchard horse. Won at Downs on May 2 At Churchill Downs on May 2 Convidado won his first race of the 1952 season. His latest win prior to that was at Hawthorne last fall at the direct expense of Bashful Sun, one of his rivals in the War Minstrel Monday. The six-year-old Flap Not, only member of her sex in the War Minstrel, won early in the year and scored another at Laurel on April 22, and has shown considerable improvement over her 1951 form. Kanza won on the grass course at Hialeah, and "Battle H., bred by his Oklahoma owner, won at Oaklawn. He finished Second in three recent starts. The Hygro Purse is named for the sensationally fast son of the French race horse and sire, Epinard, who made three round trips between his native France,and America during his career, and was an aged casualty of the late war. Seeking a maiden victory in the Hygro are: Same E. Wilson, Jr.s Tool Pusher, Henry Allsmans Blem-riah, S. A. Alexanders Sids Pride, G. A. Cavanaughs Coherence, Brent Harts First Shannon, Wathem Knebelkamps Show Ring, F. L. Flanders Fast. Buck, Anthony Graffagninis Ashes, Augustus and Nahms My Faith, and Carmody Vanscoys Burnt Look. The last three named are fillies, and Burnt Look is a candidate for the Miss America Stakes next Saturday. Besides the War Minstrel Purse there are two other races at a mile and one-sixteenth, each attracting nine horses. Capacity fields will contest the first three races on the card. Post time for the first race Monday reverts to 2:00 p. m., following the two-day holiday week-end.
