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HUGH L MEHORTER Newly elected electedpresident president of the National Association Associationof of State Racing Commissioners Oil Gusher Wins ITBA Purse On Lincolnat Hawthorne Card Sam E Wilson Jr Runner Proves Best on Heavy Strip In Beating Five Star Gen GenBy By J J MURPHY MURPHYHAWTHORNE HAWTHORNE Cicero HI June 9 The Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders Purse an annual feature at this track occupied the place of most prominence on todays pro ¬ gram here It was fashioned for three yearolds and upward who had never won two races and was taken by Sam E Wil ¬ son Jrs Oil Gusher whose lone prior suc ¬ cess was as a twoyearold Oil Gusher making his fifth appearance of the year seemed clearly best on the heavy track and beat the shortpriced public choice Five Star Gen by three and onehalf lengths while the latter in turn was five lengths in front of Mokatuck Oil Gusher ridden by Ken Church for that jockeys third tri ¬ umph of the afternoon paid 1120 1120Field Field of Seven Competes CompetesA A field of seven sought the 3500 purse and Actuate showed in front at the start with Oil Gusher taking over when they had gone but a few strides Sprinting down the backstretch the Wilson gelding soon opened up a threelength margin and that was as close as Five Star Gen who was always in second place got to him Church came out with his mount in the stretch just enough to find the good going The dis ¬ tance was six furlongs furlongsThe The racing strip this afternoon was ra ¬ ther dif f icult to analyze It was very heavy heavyContinued Continued on Page FortyTwo Oil Gusher Wins Purse Named in Honor of ITBA ITBARaces Races Well on Hawthornes Heavy Strip to Outrun Five Star Gen GenContinued Continued from fag Out Outnext next to the rail but not too bad on the extreme outside although still cloddy All successful horses were steered beyond the middle of the strip after entering the stretch whil those on the inside although they saved lengths were at a disadvantage disadvantageThe The program made up for the most part of small fields was witnessed by a crowd of 10628 10628Dicks Dicks Future a good looking twoyear old son of On Location who was favored in one division of the Joliet Stakes here recently and met with bad racing luck got revenge when he took the fourth event With jockey Ken Church picking out the best part of the course Dicks Future owned by Mrs N Viscusi and trained by Harold Raines won over Practical with the fav ¬ ored OSystem being third Dicks Future paid 820 820In In another twoyearold race Tanbark a firsttime starting son of Signator Jerisa by Hi Jack was also ridden by Church and like Dicks Future was a clever winner beating out WiseSeer after having been carried to the outside fence on the stretch curve by the favored Canary Island Tan bark earned 1950 which is almost twice as much as the 1000 he brought at last years Keeneland sales The colt is owned by Shady Brook Farm FarmTanbark Tanbark won the second race and was coupled in a 7840 daily double with Little Bookie the first winner Little Bookie was racing to her second straight success at tne meeting and came from some distance back to take a short lead in the stretch and hold the freerunning Luce Change who came from last place Paul Bailey rode Little Bookie BookieBreadwinner Breadwinner an oddson favorite was a handy winner in the third under the guid ¬ ance of jockey Johnny Adams while Very Special with Steve Brooks in the saddle clicked over the wellplayed Plunger in the fifth
