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Sprint Heads Tonights Program at Fairmount Easy Reward, Port o Gold and ed Card Slated to Test Speed By C. E. LINDEMAN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., May 10 Fairmount Park starts out its first full week of racing Monday night with another good weeknight card of nine races. In lieu of an outstanding allowance race, a sprint affair named the Martin and Lewis for ,500 claimers, will act as the featured event. This race drew a full field of sprinters at six furlongs for a ;300 purse. Main contention appears to lie between Easy Reward, Red Card and Port OGold. Easy Reward, which races in the interests of A. Cilio of Chicago, rates a slight edge over this field due to his impressive race here opening night when he was just nipped at the wire after setting most of the pace. Easy Reward goes in the main attraction with 112 pounds and should profit greatly by that sterling effort. Offering the stiffest opposition will probably be the five-year-old Red Card from the stable of Virgil Hisel. Although his first outing here the second night of the meeting was not too good, he is capable of doing much better as his record of last year shows. Since arriving here at this course, he has shown some very good workouts and appears ready to offer real tough opposition. Of the others named to compete in the feature, Overexposed looms as the most dangerous at the six-fulong distance. This son of Hyperion won early this year at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans for ,000 going the six furlongs in 1 : 14 over z. fast track. Port OGold rates best of the others in the feature. Lucky Lable, sporting the silks of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Holman, accounted for the featured event, the ,500 St. Louis. Handicap, in a driving finish to defeat a small band of five other starters. This marked the first start of the current meeting for the five-year-old son of valdina Lamar after having scratched out of the inaugural opening night. Jockey Melvin Duhon hustled his mount along smartly in front in the first furlong -and after taking command on far turn, was able to draw clear, due uo the fact that the racing strip was slightly off. Lucky Lable started to slacken his speed near the .finish, but still had enough left to win over his closest rival, Fiesta Way, by a three-quarter length margin. Lucky Way ran the six panels in 1:11 and being well backed by the 8,305 fans that stayed in the cold weather paid .40 to win. Mrs. Tom M. Pruetts fleet filly, Fiesta Way, making her first start since a long list of good races at the Oaklawn Park meeting early this spring, was strongly finishing second in the main attraction. Jockey C, Daigrepont had a little trouble getting the daughter of Snark going but once in best stride, really flew to get up for a real stretch duel with the winner. Desefolks from the barn of Ellis and Vogelsang accounted for the show end of the ,500 St. Louis purse. Due to the promise of another cold night the Saturday crowd was held down to a mere 8,305 and wagering in the mutuels only hit a 63,183 mark. Elmer Toon, a local owner and trainer who has in the past raced with good success here at the Fairmount track is now assembling a public stable to race here throughout the long summer season. At this time Toon has only two horses in his stable. Late arrivals here at the Collinsville course are W. C. Weant with the good handicap mare, Mary H., from Louisville, Ky. and Ronald E. House, with the large stable of 14 head from the Ohio circuit. In the house group are such horses as Judy Cave, Happy Count, Dreist and Seymour F J and two young horses Good Rehearsal and Ladys Cape. Seymour F J races in the interest of C. G. Hall and Wing Tint in the name of Clarence Egger.
