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Crack Field Goes In Ottawa Purse Oil Painting, Jay Jay Gee And Mr. Prosecutor to Seek Honors in Lincoln Sprint LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, HI., June 12. Nine three-year-olds, including two stakes-winning fillies arid a third member of their sex who has won twice in a brief career, are screduled to meet in the six-furlong Ottawa Purse, which features the Monday program at Lincoln Fields. The fillies are Mrs. J. A. Goodwins Oil Painting, winner of the Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland last October; Woodview Farms Illinois-bred Jay Jay Gee, who beat Queen Hopeful in the 1953 version of the Miss America Stakes, and Sunny Blue Farms Resplendent, whose nine starts resulted in two victories. The Ottawa also brings out, to launch his 1954 campaign, Mark Leachs Detroit-owned Mr. Prosecutor, who won the Bash-ford Manor Stakes last spring and also finished second to Everett Jr. in the Joliet and was similiarly placed behind Hasty Road in the Arlington Futurity. Rounding out the balance of the Ottawa field are Sam E. Wilsons King Phalanx, Walmacs Farms Country Bumkin, Emil Denemarks Power Prive; Ned W. Brents Poco Reto, and Dr. Stanley Palusis Thun-derbird. Oil Painting, a chestnut daughter of two former Chicago favorites of that same color, Papa Redbird and Jacks Jill, who were owned by the late Joseph Goodwin and trained by the late John M. Goode, has made but one start since closing her successful juvenile campaign at Churchill Downs last November. That one start was made at the current Lincoln Fields meeting, Mrs. Goodwins filly finishing fifth behind Judge Browdee. Holds Victory Over Queen Hopeful Like Jay Jay Gee, Oil Painting has a victory over Queen Hopeful in her record of wins, that being the Alcibiades, in which the Hasty House queen finished third to Oil Painting andsPegeen. the latter winner of the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap a few days earlier. But also like Queen Hopeful, Oil Painting lowered her colors to Jay Jay Gee, not once, but twice during their juvenile campaign. At the Lincoln Fields meeting at Hawthorne a year ago, Oil Painting was unplaced in a race in which Jay Jay Gee won by four lengths, beating Cosentina by that margin. Later, at Washington Park, the Illinois filly won by more than a length at the direct expense of Oil Painting. In both instances the latter was in receipt of weight concessions, seven pounds in their latest encounter. After finishing fifth to Queen Hopeful last August, in the Princess Pat Stakes, Jay Jay Gee, who was injured in that race, ended her juvenile campaign, during which she won six of her 10 starts. She began her 1954 season here on May 27, being unplaced behind Blue Violin, Swivel Hips, Cosentina, and others. Power Drive, a recent winner at this meeting, and Thunderbird are, like Jay Jay Gee, products of Illinois farms. His recent win was Power Drives second of the current season, having broken his maiden at the New Orleans Fair Grounds with a clever five-length victory. Thunderbird has won twice this year, both at New Orleans. He was unplaced in the Peabody Memorial here on May 31,- as was Poco Reto. Country Bumkin won his first start of 1954 at Churchill Downs on May 5, beating My Fault a neck. He was third to Judge Browdee at the current meeting on May 29.
