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Sportsmans Park Notebook AbbeStingBackforAnotherCampaign Dry Run Sir Mango Arrivals From South By J J MURPHY SPORTSMANS PARK Cicero HI May 5 An old Chicago thoroughbred favorite back for a whack at the distance stakes in this territory during the coming summer is the sixyearold Abbe Sting who has arrived at Lincoln Fields from Florida with in several handicaps m the South during the past winter but failed to meet with much suc ¬ cess Perhaps he pre ¬ fers the Chicago cli ¬ mate and maybe he is a hot weather horse They tell us that overly warm days were few and far between in Florida this season We had a hot summer hereabouts last year and that may have been right down Abbe Stings alley He won the first stake race of his career during the period when he accounted for the Stars and Stripes Handicap on the turf at Arlington Park and came right back a couple of weeks later to take the Laurance Armour Memorial at the same course Both events were run over the turf course His best stakes race in Florida this year was a third to Parnassus and Picador in the Bougainvillea Handicap on the grass at Hialeah He came from far out of it to close with a rush rushA A A A ATwo Two other stake runners of last year are on the scene in Dry Run and Sir Mango Dry Run owned by P J McMullen of Detroit got in with a number of others in charge of trainer R C Adams The son of Sky Raider also a sixyearold took the Srete Inaugural Handicap at the Lincoln Fields session last spring and started off this year with a victory Sir Mango a steadygoing fouryearold owned by H X Eads was second to Native Dancer in the Arlington Classic last year and was third to Royal Bay Gem and Platan in the Pea body Memorial He was also a stakes win ¬ ner in his last start of the year In March of this year Sir Mango took the Stephen Foster Handicap at Gulfstream on Florida Derby day defeating a band of older horses including Dry Run who was fourth fourthA A A A AWe We have heard from the Lincoln Fields publicity department via Joe Petritz the onetime Notre Dame man who is entering his third season as a drumbeater for the course Joe writes that Larry Bogenschutz the jolly racing secretary will be on hand at the Crete plant Monday when his office will be opened for business Larry has held a similar position every year since Lincoln Fields was inaugurated in 1926 Joe goes on to list the stakes program feature of which will be the 25000 added Peabody Memorial Handicap One of the certain starters for the Peabody should a contre ¬ temps not occur will be the threeyer old Admiral Porter who gained many admir ¬ ers due to his gallant run in finishing fifth in the Kentucky Derby Admiral Porter has all the earmarks of a good distance horse and can also run well in the mud He is owned by the Sunny Blue Stable and recently checked in from Kentucky KentuckyA A A A AJockey Jockey Herb Litzenberger the veteran who rode his first winner of the season here Tuesday has been active in the saddle for many years He is 32 years old and comes from Leader Sask Canada Herb rode his first winner in California in 1937 and was an apprentice on Chicago tracks the following year He rode Little town now a prominent sire to victory in the Joliet Stakes of 1942 beating Occupa ¬ tion and others The same year he won the Equipoise Mile at Arlington Park aboard Best Seller Litzenberger makes his home in Jackson Miss is married and the father of an eightmonth old daughter He rides at 112 pounds Some members of the Chicago Cubs took advantage of an offday at the ball park Tuesday to come to the track to look them over Among those present were Ralph Kiner Dee Fondy and Clyde McCullough Walter E McCarron Cook County coroner will be honored here Thursday when the fifth race on the program will be named for him The winning jockey will be presented with a wrist watch by McCarron McCarronA A A A AApprentice Apprentice Jerold Eugene Casey who rode his first Sportsmans Park winner and the third winner of his life here Tuesday is a 20yearold from Elbert Colo He is under contract to R J Hulse and rides at 106 pounds Vidi favorite in the sixth race here Tuesday had more than one at ¬ traction Not only was he ridden by Tony Skoronski but he was led to the post by a pretty young lady mounted on a sad ¬ dle pony Vidi finished last Among the theContinued Continued on Page Nine Sportsmans Notebook NotebookBy By J J MURPHY i Continued from Page Three Threevisitors visitors were Mr and Mrs George Mono han of San Francisco who stopped off en route home from the Kentucky Derby DerbyA A A A P G Johnson has sold Queens Regent a threeyearold daughter of Stymie to the successful young ownertrainer Edwin C CRoth Roth Jr Apprentice Tommy ONeill who whohas has been sidelined with an eye injury is expected to swing back into action the latter part of this week J W Snider has shipped the mares S McLaughlin J and Mint Patty to Creekside Farm to be mated with Snow Boots That stallion holder of the mile and a sixteenth track record at Santa Anita is under lease by Dr C C CKane Kane of Collinsville 111 Lady How Mrs MrsPenrod Penrod Blue Opal and Gingerbread have been shipped to Fairmount Park Fred Crafton the dapper gentleman in charge of registrations reports he has the names of 952 horses on his books for this meeting
