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Nominate Twenty-Nine for Peabody Heads Lincolns Holiday Program Royal Bay Gem, Matagorda, Money Broker, Curragh King On List for 0,000 Race HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 23.— The current Lincoln Fields meeting at Hawthorne reaches a new peak on the forthcoming Memorial Day week end next Saturday with the twenty-fifth running of the 0,000 Peabody Memorial Stakes. Twenty-nine three-year-olds have been nominated for the one and one-eighth mile fixture which annually features this spring holiday. It is the first stakes race of the Illinois season for three-year-olds exclusively and has become one of the more important turf events in the Middle West last year, and on numerous other occasions in the past, Memorial Day has been the biggest racing day in Illinois from the standpoint of attendance. Joe W. Brown[s Matagorda, G and G Stables Money Broker, and Edward M. Goemans Curragh King, winners of three i of the "winter derbys," the Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida versions, respectively, are among the 29 nominees for the ; Peabody. Another is Eugene Constantin, ; Jr.s Royal Bay Gem. Before encountering Native Dancer and Dark Star again in the , Preakness Saturday, Royal Bay Gem had [ accounted for the Everglades, Chesapeake J ; and Jersey Stakes and had beaten the Kentucky Derby winner, Dark Star, in the ; Preakness Prep. He went into the Preakness , winner of six of his 12 starts this season. , Other Stake Winners Named Other nominees for the Peabody include I T. M. Daniels Ace Destroyer, winner last • year of the Prairie State and one division , of the Bashford Manor Stakes; Harry N. Eads Sir Mango, winner of the Hyde Park ■ Stakes; Mrs. Ada L. Rices Mr. Paradise, who won the Washington Park Futurity; Mrs. Herbert Herffs Mimi Mine, heroine of Hawthornes Durazna Stakes; Hasty House Farms Torch of War, winner of the De Soto Handicap at Tropical Park, and the latters stablemate, Platan. Also nominated with Mr. Paradise was his stablemate, Cerise Reine, winner of the Ashland Stakes over Bubbley at Keeneland this spring, who with Mimi Mine represent the distaff members among the Peabody eligibles. Sam E. Wilson, Jr., of Corpus Christi, Texas, whose Gushing Oil accounted for the Peabody last year, nominated Oil Gusher and Pick and Play for the 1953 renewal. Dixiana nominated Spy Defense and Ber-seem, while Red Top Farm made subscriptions for Dax, Rhinestone, and New Stream. Other nominees are C. O. Dorsett, winning stablemate of Matagordas; Mrs. O. S. Dealings Thaxter; Bwamazon Farms Breakers; Golden Maxim Stables Mokatuck; Mrs. H. G. Bockmans Prince Marque ; Buddah Stables Dr. Milton H.; Walmac Farms King and Chicago; H. D. Maggios Hard Hack; W. C. Tacketts Frosty Face; H. L. Na-thansons Guy.
