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Lincoln s Feature Has Six Entrants Fairway Farms Classy Filly Gets Poundage From Rebus, Living Doll Under Conditions LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, 111., May 27.— Fridays feature attraction at Lincoln Fields, a six-furlong dash for a purse of ,000, is called the Lansing in honor of the nearby town of that name, and six good sprinters were named through the entry box to start. Heading the field is the four-year-old filly, Good Call, owned by Fairway Farm, and a consistent performer on Chicago tracks during the past two seasons. The daughter of Case Ace — Hi Fling has started only twice this season. She was third, a length off the winner, Full Brother, in a three-quarter mile race at Keeneland on April 22. She made her next start on opening day at Lincoln Fields in the division of the Crete Handicap won by Sir Mango, and finished unplaced. Good Call was nominated for Saturdays La Salle Handicap, but her presence in the Lansing indicates she will pass up the week-end stake. She breezed a half-mile in :50% this morning. She did not win a stakes race last year, but was third in the Yo Tambien and Beverly Handicaps won by Gala Fete and Sunny Dale, respectively. Good Calls rivals for the Lansing Purse include two other fpur-yearTold fillies, Sherry L., owned by Mark Leachs Green-acres Stock Farm with branches in both Michigan and Kentucky, and Tuonine, from the Louisville stable of Clifford Lussky. Other competitors are the four-year-old colts, Rebus and Living Doll, and the five-year-old mare, In Clover, property of Mrs. John L. Oglesby, of Pawhuska, Okla. Sherry L. Third in Chicago Heights Purse Making her first start of 1954, Sherry L. finished third, to La Ronde and Fulvous in the Chicago Heights Purse here at Lincoln Fields last Monday. In that first outing of the. season for her, she was beaten only a length and a neck by the two who finished in front of her. Sherry L,, a daughter of Occupation — Unmask, won four races last year, including the Hot Springs Handicap at Oaklawn, and was fourth to Curragh King in the Arkansas Derby. Tuonine, by Reaping Reward, out of Val-dina Gleam, is an elder half-sister to Luss-kys good colt, Tuosix, who finished second to Sir Mango in their division of the Crete Handicap last week. The filly showed high promise at two and was a winner last year. Living Doll, owned by John Warren, has won two races so far this year, the same number he won last season. His breeding, by Secnav, out of Helen Mac, by Rolls Royce, is somewhat less fashionable than that of his opponents in the Lansing. Rebus was unplaced behind Blue Dare, Abbe Sting and Adams Off Ox here last Friday in his first start since his Florida campaign, where he was a winner and placed on four other occasions. A son of Questionnaire — Lasso, by John P. Grier, he was bred in Tennessee by-Jack W. Denis, former president of the National Association of Thoroughbred Breeders, and did his early racing for Buddah Stable, owner of the good mare, Sunny Dale. He is now owned by the Westerners, J. H. Nail and M. B. Armer. In Clover, by Shut Out— Happy Factor, has not wonthis t season, but was a winner of two races last year.
