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Lincoln Fields Feature Named in Honor of ITBA ITBAWellMatched WellMatched Field Scheduled To Contest 3YearOld Event EventHAWTHORNE HAWTHORNE Cicero HI June 8 The Lincoln Fields Racing Association now in the fourth week of its spring meeting at Hawthorne has named tomorrows feature race in honor of the Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders Association which holds its an ¬ nual election in the grandstand restaurant here tomorrow evening eveningThe The sixfurlong feature is fashioned ex ¬ clusively for threeyearolds which have never WOQ two races Under those condi tione racing secretary Larry Bogenschutz came up with an apparently wellmatched field Most of those named have raced principally in allowance races and in good company breaking their maidens against that sort of opposition oppositionSam Sam E Wilsons Oil Gusher one of the seven entered for the feature has run in stakes on several occasions since winning his maiden race early last year He wasa starter in the 50OOQ Peabody Memorial Stakes here on May 30 Although he fin ¬ ished tenth and last in that holiday fix ¬ ture behind Royal Bay Gem he came back last Thursday to rim a very creditable third to Hard Hack and Torch of War in the sixfurlong Geneva Purse and ahead of such a good one as Dean Cavy winner of the Joliet Stakes last year Oil Gusher is a bay gelding by Condiment out of Grand Matron and was bred in Tennessee by Del Holeman HolemanA A highly regarded member of the pros ¬ pective field for the feature is Five Star Gen owned by Mrs Joseph E Goodwin of Lexington Ky This colt an own brother to Ky Colonel and halfbrother to the good little mare Jacks Jill did not race at two He broke his maiden on May 22 this year yearOthers Others in the feature are Golden Maxim Stables gray coltMokatuck Shady Brook Farms filly Actuate J E Nolans Little Jonesy Buffah Stables Scrutinized and S A Alexanders Sids Pride Besides Oil Gusher those who graduated from the maiden ranks in theirfirst year of com ¬ petition were Mokatuck Actuate and Sids Pride PrideScrutinized Scrutinized a chestnut gelding by Third Degree Thorn Apple by Jamestown won the first start of his career in the Iroquois Farm Purse here on June 2 Little Jonesy broke his maiden on April 4 That was a five length victory at Gulfstream Park Mokatucks maiden victory occurred at Arlington Park last July when he won by eight lengths on a sloppy track
