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Lincoln Fields Notebook By J J MURPHY Rice Stable on Arlington Scene Close Sportsmans Racing Strip Happy Go Lucky Training Again AgainHAWTHORNE HAWTHORNE Cicero HI June 8 Johnny Adams who is away out in front of the other riders here had 110 mounts at ic meeting going into the next to last week and had been in the money 62 of them Robert McAuliffe steward at Fairmount Park was a visitor to ¬ day He states there are a number of good apprentice prospects at the Collinsville course Doug Dodson who rode Cerise Reine in the Coaching Club American Oaks got back from New York Cerise Reine was due to arrive at Arlington Park today Her first engagement will likely be in the 15000 Artful Stakes to be run at Arlington Park the first Wednes ¬ day of the meeting Trainer Howard Hoff ¬ man of the Ada L Rice Stable will also have Air Colonel Jet Air Loyal Sir Master Eddie Ping King Sunny Liege Tough Guy Wee Bonnie and Roseada among those in his care during the Arlington meeting They arrived over the weekend The sprinter Baybrook was just as im ¬ pressive in winning on a muddy track as on a fast strip If the twotime handicap winner here keeps up the good work he may become a candidate for the sprint ¬ ing1 honors of the year The speedy speedyIllinoisbred Illinoisbred filly Jay Jay Gee will make her next start in the Miss America Stakes Saturday and will be ridden by John Heckmann Willie Fronk the former jockey and now a trainer became a grandfather for the second time Sat ¬ urday when his sons wife Mrs George Fronk gave birth to an eight pound boy at Miami FlaL where her husband is in the real estate business businessTrainer Trainer E Meloncon got back from Fair mount Parkt with four horses in his public stable The runners are Texas Rain Third Division Magnet and Sailors Delite The Sportsmans Park racing strip has been closed It will be scraped and put in shape for the coming harness horse session that gets under way shortly Lawrence Bogen schutz returned from his weekend trip to Cincinnati while trainer Milton Reiser got back from Louisville Trainer John Lit trell has engaged riders for the Sunny Blue Farm pair of fillies Resplendent and Lady Elliott in Saturdays Miss America Stakes Skoronski will be on Lady Elliott and MacAndrew on Resplendent Each filly graduated here in her very first start Saturdays parimutuel business of 1502 883 was topped only by that of Memorial Day DaySaturdays Saturdays baseball game between the White Sox and Washington having been rained out a number of members of both clubs came to the races on a sightseeing tour Among those present was Ferris Fain whose father Ockie once rode a horse to second place in the Kentucky Derby Herbert and Erich Meissler and Henry Wegester three mutuel employees here narrowly escaped death when the automobile in which they were riding fig ¬ ured in an accidetn last Friday evening Wegesterwas on the job Saturday but Herbert Meissler was taken to South Town Hospital and Erich is confined to his home Major Ednyfed Williams former chairman of the Illinois Racing Board was a visitor to the press box Sat ¬ urday He was accompanied by Ralph Scheu prominent Chicago civic leader who will soon depart for Washington WashingtonIt It was no oversight that starter Ruby White failed to wear a raincoat during that downpour the other day Ruby says he was so burned up at some of the twoyearolds that he needed cooling off Mr and Mrs Allie Reuben who visited over the week end are enthusiastic over a couple of their colts that have as yet to go postward Judy Peluso and Tom Bergin Jr a couple of young people who are regular visitors in Santa Anitas Turf Club were joined in wedlock at Los Angeles last Saturday Courts Maude a recent winner here was almost burned to death several years ago when a trailer in which she was riding took f ire She was absent from the turf for about one ear earFred Fred Browning owner of the Cresson Farm Stable has departed for his home in Arlington Texas The stakes run Continued on Page FortfFiv Lincoln Fields Notebook NotebookBy By J J MURPHY Continued from Page Five Fivening ning fouryearold Happy Go Lucky who suffered a bruised foot during the Ken ¬ tucky spring racing season is in light training and may not be up to a race for the Lincoln Handicap but will be a Starter at Arlington Park Boots Ha ¬ ven Darby Creek Little Opener and Junius the property of E A Livingston have arrived at Arlington Park in charge of trainer Huey McDowell McDowellTrainer Trainer Roy C Adams reports that Dry Run was struck in the eye by a flying clod in his last start and was rested a few days J A Kinard purchased Sky Princess from Mrs Marie Ellen Borton and turned the filly over to C C Norman to train Oil Painting a twoyearold who has failed to impress here is royally bred being Papa Redbird and Arlington Classic winner out of Jacks Jill who beat Spy Song in the Hawthorne Gold Cup Ike Bassett of the Jockeys Guild departed for Boston for the NASRC convention He will then go to New York for the directors meeting of the Jockeys Guild and then to Cleveland He will be back in Chicago an abpyt one week
