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r = Speedy Field of Twelve in Antioch "JSun David, Recline Each to Carry 122 Ruhe, Screemin Jack and Le Monde Meet Topweight Pair in Lincoln Sprint Test HAWTHORNE, Cicero, HI., June 13.— For Mondays feature on the Lincoln Fields program at Hawthorne, racing secretary L. C. Bogenschutz has carded the ,000 Antioch Purse for a six and one-half furlongs dash, and it attracted a field of 12 prospective starters, most of whom have been racing in 1 stakes a good part of their competitive 2 careers. They include Fairway Farms Recline and •t J. S. Bradleys Sun David, winners on con-t secutive days, June 4 and 5, at this meeting, f Both will carry 122 pounds. They face some formidable opposition from the rest of the band, which includes: Reverie Knoll Farms Le Monde, 116; Hasty House Farms Ruhe and Inseparable, R. R. Thomas Joe Graves, Golden Maxim Stables Eljay, E. C. Roths Spring Khal, Red Top Stables Red Charger, Mrs. Herbert Herff s Screemin Jack, H. H. Mundys Commandant and Woddbreak. All of these, except Woodbreak, who has 105 pounds, get in with 110 if their riders can all make that weight. x Second to Elixir in Lee Handicap 1 After finishing second to Elixir in the 3 Robert E. Lee Handicap at Tropical Park, j and tackling such horses as Oil Capitol, I Royal Vale, and Spartan Valor in later stakes, Recline won his first victory of the I year in theHinsdale Purse here on June 4 , when he got up in the final strides to beat ; Joe Graves a nose. Last year. Recline, who # : races for H. J. OShea, of Chicago, won the 5 Illinois Owners Handicap at Hawthorne and t : placed in the Hurricane and Christmas . handicaps at Tropical Park, r Sun Davids victory in the Villa Park Purse on June 5 was his second start of the 1953 season. He won by six lengths on a ] muddy track, with Ruhe finishing second The Villa Park was Ruhes first start this : year. He has done most of his racing in ! stakes. Last year, he won Lincoln Fields ] Narcissus Handicap,, and finished second in 1 seven other stakes, third in three others, including the Lincoln Handicap, won by his 1 stablemate, Seaward. The f ive - year - old ] Ruhe has been a stakes winner each season £ since taking the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap as a two-year-old. At three, he won the 1 Arkansas Derby, got one. division of the ] Blue Grass Stakes when Sonic was disqualified, 1 and placed in nine other stakes i including third in Count Turfs Kentucky 1 Derby. Ruhes eight -year -old stablemate, the 1 perennial stakes winner, Inseparable he ] won the Chicago Handicap last year, has ] failed to win in nine starts this year, but i finished second three times, third twice. Le Monde won. one "of his two starts as a * two-year-old, one of four races last year, and his first start of the present season. In ; his only other start this year, he was fifth to Baybrook in the Fleming Handicap on J June 6. Screemin Jack has started four times this 5 year. The gray gelding won one of these, a and finished second in the other three. He is * the only member of the Antioch field who 1 has been performing in claiming races, and t these have been in the higher brackets.
