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4 Dozen in Fail-mount MemorialHandicap Little Bookie, Harry-Lou, Hawkwood Sis Among Classy Field of Route Performers By C. A. LINDEMAN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., May 29. — The Memorial Day Handicap, headliner for the holiday afternoon card of nine races, drew one of the best limit fields of 12 horses that has raced over this track since racing started under the lights. This event will be decided at the mile and one-sixteenth distance and has a ,000 purse, which is the largest offered since night racing came into being here at the Collinsville course. Top weight in the Monday feature has been assigned to the Bell Acres Farm six-year-old, Little Bookie, with 114 pounds. This son of Flint Shot was returned the winner of the East St. Louis Handicap recently and, from the fashion in which he won by a length and a half going away in 1:45 flat for the mile and a sixteenth, it appears as though he should rule favorite over this special field of middle distance runners. That winning race of Little Bookies was his second start of the meeting and it now looks as though he has reached his peak form for this test in the Memorial Day Handicap. Harry-Lou, from the stable of A. Schroe-der, also a winner of his last start, a six-furlong dash, drew second high weight in the Memorial Day Handicap of 113 pounds. His recent winning race was a top effort and, although it was for the shorter distance, he was going away at the end and went out the mile in the fast time of 1:42 flat. Picks Up Three-Pound Penalty In the Monday feature the Schroeder eight-year-old son of Half Crown will be picking up a three-pound penalty but, going back over his record, it both shows that he can carry weight and has been over the longer routes. Harry-Lou has started three other times this meeting before he was able to visit the winners circle, but all races showed improvement over the previous, starts. Of the others slated to show their endurance over the mile and one-sixteenth route in the holiday feature is the winner of her last two times out, Hawkwood Sis, from the stable of R. S. Reynolds, Jr. This four-year-old daughter of Desert Ration and Do Say gave a sparkling exhibition in a mile and a sixteenth race her last out when she rushed up from sixth place on the far turn to first place entering the final quarter to take the lead from Skyo-later. She then drew out to a three-length lead even though taken in hand by jockey R. Bracket. She was still in front by a length and a half at the finish in the fast time of 1:45%. Hawkwood Sis gets in Mondays handicap with the light weight of 105 pounds and should be. a very serious threat in the final stages. The other route runners in the handicap are Fiesta Way, Val Vez, Lancaster Lady, Dr. Rees, Desefolks, Spicy Belle, Lady Indian, Galway Boy and King Bebe. Scarlet Time, racing in the silks of Rita Cue, made good in her second start of the current meeting when she accounted for the Northville Purse, before a small Friday night crowd of 6,700 fans that braved the threatening weather to view the nine-race card. The eight-year-old daughter of Time Maker and Deep Rose moved up fast under the urging of jockey R. White to take the lead :n -he first furlong of the six furlongs dash and, being far the best, came on in the last quarter to win as her rider pleased. Scarlet Time, being the favorite of the small field of six starters in the feature, paid .20 to win and turned in the fast time of 1:12 flat, over a racing strip that was just good to start off the nights racing. Best of the others in the Northville Purse was W. F. Riggs Cavalier Trim, who closed strongly in the final furlong to take down the place mony. Getting up for third money was C. B. McNeills Fair Rita. Jockey L. Miller narrowly escaped serious injury when his mount Pre-Kee stumbled and fell rounding the stretch turn in the third race Friday night. The lad came right back in a few races and rode out his mounts. James C. Ellis, owner and operator of Dade Park, was a visitor for the week end of racing. His trainer, Olin Johnson, who - suffered a stroke several weeks ago is doing nicely and is now able to sit up. He is at the St. Marys Hospital in East St. Louis. Ellis has a stable of horses racing here at Fairmount.
