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4 Lincoln Handicaps Star-Studded List Chance Play, Lady Broadcast, Toro; Syiin Beau Won Stake; 1952 Entry Deadline at Hand HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., June 4.— Lincoln Fields racing secretary Lawrence C. Bogenschutz today issued a reminder to horsemen that nominations close tomorrow for the 0,000 Lincoln Handicap, which mile and a quarter fixture will have its •twenty-fifth running on Saturday, June 14, closing day of the current meeting at Hawthorne. The Lincoln Handicap traditionally has been the final feature of Lincoln Fields meetings. Inaugurated in 1926 but not renewed in 1932 and 1934 the Lincoln for many years was one of the outstanding handicaps in the Middle West. So much importance was attached to it that the late Col. Matt Winn, then in control of Lincoln Fields, had bronze statuettes made to perpetuate the memory of early winners. These now adorn the office of general manager Peter J. ODonnell. They represent the first six winners — Supremus, Chance Play, Toro, Blackwood, Lady Broadcast, and Sun Beau. In 1928, when both were three-year-olds and members of one of the best crops to come to the races during this century, E. B. McLeans Toro beat W. S. Kilmers Sun Beau in the Lincoln Handicap at the Crete track. Sun Beau, who eventually became the worlds leading money-winner, came back for the Lincoln Handicap in 1931 and beat the "giant killer," Plucky Play, The „ Nut, and other good horses. Late John Goode Trained Lady Broadcast Plucky Play, who had his great moments in beating some of the best horses of his era, including the great Equipoise, had finished second to Lady Broadcast in the Lincoln Handicap of 1930, with Pigeon Hole third. Plucky Play was then a three-year-old; Lady Broadcast, a four-year-old. She was trained by the late John M. Goode, who died during the past winter. .Mr. Goode, father of Jack Goode now a Lincoln Fields steward and himself a competent horseman in his own right raced horses at Lincoln Fields meetings from the opening of the Crete track in 1926 through the 1951 meeting. One of the last yearlings he broke is the current two-year-old, Mr. Good, owned by Martin and McKinney, of Nashville, Tenn. The owners wished to name their colt after the famous trainer, but he was reluctant to consent. So the owners compromised by leaving the final letter "E" off the name. Incidentally, the Goode familys name is correctly pronounced "Gude." The colt, Mr. Good, won the Alsab purse here last Friday. Lady Broadcasts victory in the Lincoln Handicap was the best race ever run by that sensational mare, who later was cut down so badly in a race at Arlington Park that she had to be destroyed. Between 1933 and 1939, inclusive, the distance of trie Lincoln Handicap was reduced to one and one-sixteenth miles, after which it was restored to a mile and a quarter. One of the outstanding renewals at the shorter distance occurred in 1935 when Sweeping Light, a six-year-old stallion who once beat Equipoise, defeated the three-year-old filly, Myrtlewood. The famous stayer, Shot Put, won the Lincoln in 1940, the year it was put back to a mile and a quarter. Equifox, one of the best sons of Equipoise and now a successful sire, won the 1941 and 1942 renewals. Another two-time winner was old Take Wing, who raced through his twelfth year. He won the Lincoln in 1943, when he was five; again in 1945 at the age of seven. The Lincoln Handicap is rich in the traditions of a quarter* century and the name of the 1952 winner will join those which comprise a distinguished roster.
