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Washington Offers Good Co-Features Pursuance, Tuosix, Revolt In Juvenile Event; Ten to Face Air Mail in Handicap WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, HI., Aug. 29. Six promising two-year-olds, all of whom have won during their brief careers, will contest the Dyer Purse at Washington Park Monday. A co-feature to the juvenile sprint will be the High Time Handicap, six-furlong optional claiming event for three-year-olds and upward. Eleven seasoned runners will make up the field. Top-weight of 120 pounds for the five and one-half furlong Dyer will be Hal Price Head-leys Revolt. The rest of the field will carry 110 each. They are W. Kendricks Pursuance, Clifford Lusskys Tuosix, Sunny Blue Farms Admiral Porter, B. Chiles and W. Kis-lins Rite-Speed and R. L. Lancasters O Hogan. Pursuance, who finished third in his maiden outing at Arlington and won the next time out over O Hogan, finished second in the Prairie State Stakes last week. The Carrier Pigeon gelding will be ridden by John Heckmann. Tuosix has raced well in four stakes at the combined meetings. His last was good for fourth in the Prairie State and before that he managed three seconds in the George Woolf Memorial, Hyde Park and Primer Stakes. Steve Brooks will ride the colt. Adams Astride Revolt j The topweighted Revolt will be making his first Homewood appearance, and will be ridden for the first time by Johnny Adams. The Revoked gelding was second to Hoop Ring in an Arlington sprint, and 11th in the Hyde Park Stakes. His best of three winning efforts was in the Youth Stakes at Jamaicas spring meeting. Admiral Porter who will have Carroll Bier-mann in the irons, was 11th in the Prairie State and fifth to Pursuance at this meeting. His best of five Arlington starts was a second to Hasty Road in an allowance tilt. Rite-Speed, only filly in the Dyer, has two recent fifths in her record. One of them was behind Spy Magic in a division of the Mademoiselle Stakes. The Bold Irishman lass will be ridden by Kenny Church. She worked five furlongs in 1:01 handily Saturday morning. O Hogan ran 12th in the Prairie State, and before that second to Pursuance. The Colonel OP colt also finished 10th in the Woolf and fifth in the Arlington Futurity. His last win was at Detroit. Air Mail, six-year-old Alsab gelding owned by W. L. Jones, goes into the High Time with the best recent record. He has two consecutive wins, defeating Steak Bone, Sky Maid, Nells Boy, Adaption and Vidi. All will be trying to even the score Monday. Completing the field for the ,500 High Time are Big Bargain, a recent winner; Just Us Girls, who was first her last out; Granite Flyn, Sweet Mural and Baggage Boy.
