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Ruhe in Todays Feature at Lincoln Vies With Sextet At Seven Furlongs Hasty House Farms Bargain Buy Meets Precious Stone, Lion, Improving Far Echo LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, 111., June 9. The six-year-old gelding, Ruhe, one of the six members of their powerful Hasty House Farm menage, which Allie and Billie Reuben have nominated for the 0,000 Lincoln . Handicap on June 19, heads a field of seven horses named for the seven-furlong Philco Purse, which will feature Thursdays attractive program at Lincoln Fields. Contesting the Philco with the hard-.,; hitting Hasty House gelding will be H. C. , Fruehaufs Precious Stone, Carl Craigs Lion, Howard A. Jones Far Echo, J. P. Ayers Knights Reward, J. H. Nail and M. B. Armers Rebus, and Martin and Mc-Kinneys five-year-old mare, Night Phara. The latter, the only member of her sex in the Philco field, will carry 109 pounds; all the others 111 each. Ruhe, a rather sensational performer on Chicago tracks and a stakes winner each season since his juvenile year, is using the Philco as a prep for his future engagement in the Lincoln Handicap," which he won last year. In seven starts this season he has failed to enter the winners circle, but has finished second four times. That is a , familiar placing for the rather temperamental son of Menow Alpenstock. Not to speak of his annual victories, he has finished second in more races than any prominent horse in recent years. Last year Ruhe won the Equipoise Mile, in addition to the Lincoln Handicap, and placed in six other races, including three stakes. The record of his races each year is always interesting to peruse. He began, the 1954 season at Hialeah last January, bolted and failed to be any factor whatever in a seven-furlong race won by Hyphasis. Two Seconds Followed Then followed two races in which he finished second to Mackville and Anchor Man, respectively. Next, he was fourth to Landlocked in the Widener, also fourth to Dr. Stanley in the Appleton Handicap. He then, played his old familiar role by finishing, second to Wise Margin in the Gulfstream Handicap. Incidentally, Wise Margin will be one of his rivals in the forthcoming Lincoln Handicap. The Hasty House gelding, one of the numerous "made" horses purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Rueben, and himself a 0,000 bargain when he was bought from Emil Denemark, has made one start at this meeting, that being the six-furlong Home-wood Purse on May 24. Again, he was spectacular, refusing to run the early part of the race, then closing with a rush which carried him within a length of the winner, the good filly, Mimi Mine. This morning, at Washington Park, where trainer Harry Trotsek has the Hasty.House horses, Ruhe breezed a half-mile in :53 as a blowout for the Philco Thursday. Precious Stone, a four-year-old gelding by the Australian sire, Royal Gem n., out of. the Bull Dog mare, Cash Book, was a rather prominent three-year-old last season when he won eight races and earned 1,231 without winning a stake. He placed in several stakes, however, including the American Derby, in which he was third to Native Dancer and Landlocked. He has not won this year. The six-year-old California-bred Lion, a former stakes winner on the West Coast, won his first start at this meeting on May 22, then finished second to Hasty House Farms veteran Seaward on June 1. Far Echo has steadily raced himself into higher class company since winning with a claiming tag of ,500 last January at Santa Anita. He made it four in a row at the California track, winning each of the following three races by five lengths. Starting twice at this meeting, he finished second to Cullerton on opening day, May 20, and was fourth to Tuonine on June 3.
