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1 1 1 Lincoln Fields Notebook Wise Margin, Jockey Keith Stuart To Form Lincoln Handicap Combine By J. J. MURPHY . 1 LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, HI., June 15. That 0,000 being put up for Saturdays Lincoln Handicap is a nice, neat package. It is by "many lengths" the richest offering ever provided for horsemen at a Lincoln Fields meeting and racing secretary Larry Bogenschutz is sanguine that it will attract a field of thoroughbreds commensurate with the reward for racing one and one-sixteenth miles. Sam T u f a n o , Eastern jo w n e r , who will start the four-year-old Wise Margin in the Lincoln, arrived Monday and visited the racing secretarys office this morning. He stated that his colt was was in in fine fine condition condition was was in in fine fine condition condition and would be ridden by Keith Stuart, a steady, heady jockey from the East, who is coming from Rockingham Park for the purpose. AAA Wise Margins most recent important conquest was in the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs in which he was ridden by Stuart and vanquished Find, Royal Vale, Larry Ellis, and other top stakes runners at the mile and a tmarter distance. He carried 111 pounds in that essay. He will have four pounds additional on his back Saturday. Wise Margin also took the 0,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap, and among those behind him were Ruhe and Royal Bay Gem, who may also go postward this week end. Racing secretary Bogenschutz expects that about nine will compete. Find, winner of the Queens County Handicap at Aqueduct Monday and highweight for the Lincoln, will be missing, leaving Sir Mango, a double stakes winner at this session, to handle the top poundage, AAA Dave Ferguson, popular Detroit owner, was an arrival for his first visit of the season and was being shown about new Lincoln Fields by his trainer, R. Harold Raines. . iMr. and Mrs. George Shwab, Jr., of Brentwood, Term., came in for a few days of racing. They have some horses in charge of S. Bryant Ott, . .Trainer Jack Hodgins, of Dixiana, apparently could see no races scheduled to fit the thoroughbreds in his barn, so he shipped them "across town" to Arlington Park. . .Apprentice Ronnie Behrens retuned from Waterford Park, where he went to ride last Saturday. . . .Fred Grafton, in charge of the registering of horses for Arlington Park, reports 850 head on his list. . .A number of veterans from Hines Hospital were at the track Tuesday as guests of the management. . .Harold Trimble and Fred Linstrom have purchased Bright Flame from Angelo Cilio. AAA Mrs. H. J. Damms good four-year-old filly Arab Actress will tangle with the cream of the crop in the Lincoln Handicap here Saturday afternoon. She may then be Continued on Page Forty-Five I Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three sent to Delaware Park to fill a stakes engagement, but will be back in the Chicago area later. . .Chester Adams mare, Peanuts Girl, recently dropped a foal colt by The Dude and will be bred back to Count Domino. . .Starter Reuben Wesley White will leave for Dade Park following the conclusion of this meeting. He will dispatch the fields at the Henderson, Ky., oval... High-Gun, the Belmont Stakes winner, may meet up with Determine, the Kentucky Derby winner, and Hasty Road, the Preak-ness winner, in the Arlington Classic. The latter event is shorter than any race in the "Triple Crown," being at one mile. . .The much publicized The Pie King may put in an appearance at Arlington Park. Ray Bell and "Pie-man" Johnston, owners of the colt, are reported to be higher than ever on him. AAA Trainer Harold Raines visited in Detroit over the week end. . . . Harry Richards, one of the great jockeys of 20 or more years ago, is teaching the tricks of the trade to Arturo Hernandez, a young Mexican saddle prospect, on the West Coast. Richards is training for W. C. Hoffman, Jr., the Ventura, Calif., man, who recently purchased Limelight, who finished third in the Belmont Stakes. . . . American Byrd, co-holder of the Lincoln Fields five-furlong record with Lea Lane, never raced after his two-year-old year. . . . Interested , in the fact that a combination from our old home town won the Queens Plate. We knew Petie Burton, one of the owners, as a youth, who used to quarterback the Hamilton Tigers football team. Guess that is the first Hamilton victory in the race since William Hendries Valley Farm went out of business many years ago. Valley Farm owned the only Canadian colt ever to win the Belmont Futurity. Name was Martimas. AAA That infield lake sure looks inviting these days. It has a certain coolness about it. Oh, to be a duck now that summer is here! . . . Constant working on the racing strip by the crew, under the supervision of Dee Sumpter, has the course in the best condition of the meeting as this is written. . . . The boys figured that Grace Miller must have been stricken with an attack of the mumps when she wasnt on hand to root her gelding, Blue Roger, to victory Monday. . . . Mayor Phillip Bailey, of Ottawa, 111., headed a delegation from that city to view the running of Mondays Ottawa Purse. fix- andxfLt atl V- a inou xojjcD
