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Ten Handicap Runners Seek Fairmourit Event Perfect Sweep Looms Favorite Over Sams Bride, Brown Pirate By C. A. LINDEMAN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., June 26. — Ten middle-distance runners in the handicap division will vie at the mile and one-sixteenth distance in the main attraction here at Fairmount Park tomorrow night when .they meet to decide the ,000 Red Bud Handicap. This event is fashioned for three-year-olds and older horses and brings out a select field which is topped by the fleet Hejna colorbearer, Perfect Sweep. Perfect Sweep accounted for his last out here when he. was returned victorious, in the Kankakee Purse on June 10 by a mar-?-gin [ of a half length. In winning that mile and one-sixteenth affair Perfect Sweep traversed the distance in 1:46 with 109 pounds up. In his engagement in the Red Bud the Hejna router will have to pick up three additional pounds.- The sixlyear-olds son of Sweeping Light has some good races to his credit-in the muddy going, which is almost certain to prevail for the running of the feature as heavy rains visited the course during the past 48 hours, leaving the racing strip a sea of mud. There is little likelihood that the track will have a chance to dry out by the time the Red Bud field goes to the post. Mrs C. Greenes" stout filly, Sams Bride, who won a mile and one-sixteenth race on her last appearance on the Collinsville oval, looms as the strongest contender over Perfect Sweep in the feature. This same daughter of Gray Jack is also at home over the off racing strips and with her assigned weight of 108 should be a sompetitor for the major part of the ,000 purse offered. Brown Pirate, from the Sussanne. Stable, will have a real chance to vindicate him- self for some of his recent defeats when he meets this field in the Red Bud as he is at home over the muddy going and, although packing 112 pounds, he has a world of early foot and may be the one they will have to catch, as he is capable of taking a long lead on these kind of routers. Should the entire field named elect to start the others that will be in the Red Bud, giving their best, are Obstinate Si, who will race coupled with Ky. Beauty as the T. McCarty entry. Obstinate Si has some top races to his credit at this meeting and the distance of the Red Bud is his best. Others are Corrine T., from the stable of J. Logsdon; Merry England, owned by the Silver Creek Farm; Ponder Pat, a winner last time out here at the sprint distance of six furlongs, and Bouncing Bern, k
