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EDWIN C MOON General manager managerof of Fairmount Park where a meeting of ofnight night and holiday afternoon racing will willbe be staged starting this evening Fairmount Park Opens Southern Illinois Season With WellBalanced Program Fly Two Day Lucky Lable Among Eleven Speedsters Contesting Inaugural Purse PurseBy By C A LINDEMAN LINDEMANStaff Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK Collinsville 111 May 5 Fairmount Park officials have everything in shipshape for the opening of their 60 nights of racing beginning Thursday night The plant has an entirely new appearance having been gone over from stem to stern with new paint and many new innovations for the comfort of the patrons New entrance gates have been built to speed up the incoming crowds and the parking lot has been repaved to insure dry parking With the new dressedup look Fairmount Park can now hold its own with the new racing planj being built at near ¬ by Cahokia Downs DownsSprinters Sprinters are in the limelight on the first nights ninerace program when 11 three yearolds and older horses vie for honors in the Inaugural Purse a five and onehalf furlongs dash for a purse of 1800 Main contention lies between the four horses Fly Two Day Lucky Label Deep Wonder and All Tilly TillyFly Fly Two Day who races in the silks of J J Helfrich comes to Fairmount with two victories out of four starts thus far this year This fouryearold filly a daughter of Blue Flyer and Two Dot Day won her last outing at Sportsmans Park in Chi ¬ cago in a fiveeighths allowance affair Fly Two Day also won during the Oak lawn Park meeting Trainer W E Fling has this filly at her top form for this test and will no doubt go postward as the favorite over this select field of short dis ¬ tance racers racersMr Mr Mrs G B Holman will be repre ¬ sented in the Inaugural feature with the entry of Lucky Label and All Tilly Of the two named to start in the main go Lucky j Label appears to be the better The latter raced well at Oaklawn Park at Hot Springs winning a 6000 claiming event and run ¬ ning second twice and third once in four outings Jockey Melvin Duhon who ar ¬ rived earlier in the week from Sportsmans Park will be astride Lucky Label in this five and onehalf furlongs test testAll All Tilly is by no means an outsider in inContinued Continued on Page Forty Five Fairmount Park Opens For 60Night Stand StandEntire Entire Plant Gone Over With Several Improvements Added AddedContinued Continued from Page One Onea a field of this type taking her best races last year into account This fiveyearold mare can hold her own in just such a field as this thisDeep Deep Wonder from the stable of T G Benson and trained by W W Morrow looms as the surprise horse in the main event of the opening nights card Deep Wonder comes here this spring with a log of some real top winning races hi her class She also won twice during the winter at the New Orleans Fair Grounds GroundsOthers Others slated to face starter McMillan in the Inaugural Purse event are Desefolks Gail R Hope Hull Red Rudolph Mister Plucky Issebee and Who Knows For the most part all these horses have nice per ¬ formance records this year Post time for the first nights races will be at 830 p m
