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I Accord Harry-Lou Edge In Southern Handicap Double Winner at Fairmount Park Topweight of Eight in Hea.dliner By C. A. LINDEMAN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, HI., June 11. Eight middle distance performers have been named to compete in the Southern Handicap, featured event for the midway Saturday of the meeting which is up for decision at a mile and one-sixteenth for a ,000 purse. The Southern brings together the best of the routers in this area. Topping the list is the consistent performer from the stable of A. Schroeder, Harry-Lou winner of both a sprint race and just recently a distance affair. The eight-year-old Harry-Lou will be packing top weight of 118 pounds and off his winning race over the longer route of a mile and one-sixteenth figures to be the public choice at race time. In his successful route tally in the Memorial Day Handicap the son of Half Crown proved his right to j compete with the best here this season. His winning margin in the recent handicap was j only a head margin but from the way he I was closing after being a bit tardy in getting into his best stride he will be hard to handle in Saturday nights main attraction. Jockey R. Sanabria will again handle the Schroeder star. Lock Out, an invader from the Chicago tracks, drew second top weight from racing secretary J. J. Klucina. Although the R. Wilkinson router has not as yet won a race thus far in 1954 he has been racing with much better horses than he is meeting in the Southern Handicap. Lock Out will be shouldering 116 pounds just two off of that which Harry-Lou will have up. The six-year-old son of Shut Out only had one race at Lincoln Fields this year and prior to his shipping to Fairmount Park which was not very impressive but he was pitted against some real tough competitors. His two races prior to that this year were at the Churchill Downs meeting. Again he was racing against far superior horses such as ,000 and ,000 claiming class horses. Lucky Lable will be out after his third victory of the meeting in the Southern Handicap when he again flaunts the silks of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Holman. Lucky Lable draws 113 pounds for this- mile and one-sixteenth race. His record thus far is two winning races out of four starts. All of his races have been over the sprint dis- tance of six furlongs but his stable connections have him ready for the longer distance in the Southern Handicap. Making up the field for the Southern Handicap will be the other stout contenders Galway Boy, owned by the J and S Hanover Stable; Tattenham, who races in the interest of Mrs. T. M. Pruett; Abolere, from the M. Whitebrook Stable; Buster Buttons, from the Circle V. J. Stable and the j H. H. Rendlemans King Bebe.
