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. I I , , r - Middle Distance Runners In Fairmount Top Event Uncensored, Wise Needle and Spizerinktom Big Three in Race liy C. A. LINDEMAN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, Ill-June 28. Middle distance horses hold the spotlight on Tuesday night when eight fleet runners vie at the mile and 70 yards distance in the Edgemont Purse. This event brings together horses that have started this year for a claiming price of ,500 or less and shapes up as a well-balanced field. Main contention appears to be between Uncensored, Wise Needle and Spizerinktom. The Midwest Stables five-year-old Uncensored, winner of his only outing here at a mile and 70 yards, rates a trifle the best over this small but select field due to the ease in which he turned back such horses as Crackice and Skyolater by two and one-half lengths in 1:42. The son of Carrier Pigeon came herefrom the Ohio meeting at ThistleDown where he was defeated in handicap company. His recent morning trials show him still in top form for this engagement. Wise Needle, from the stable of R. Aten, and who is making his fifth start of the current meeting, figures right up there with Uncensored off his best race over this course. His last outing was i thj same race that Uncensored won, but he also has a winning race over the mile and one-sixteenth route in which he defeated such horses as Busy John and Copete by a four-length margin in 1:45 with 110 pounds up. Wise Needles other races here this meeting were over the shorter routes. John Stelles fast sprinter, Spizerinktom, winner of two short distance races at this meeting, will be making his first attempt at the longer distance and from his ability to close fast he appears to be able to stretch out for the distance, of the Edgemont event. His last appearance here was over a six furlongs test in which he won by a length going away from such fast horses as Brown Pirate anr" Night Fog. Other slated to compete in the Tuesday night feature are Bob o Nick, Neds Choice, Dixie Talk, Last Raid and Jp-Time. Harry-Lou scored his third victory of the current meeting when he carried A. Schroe-ders silks to victory in the ,000 sippi Valley Handicap, before a cheering throng of 8,800 fans. As always, the eight-i year-old son of Half Crown was tardy in getting into his best stride, but jockey Sanabria kept him out of trouble and when ready to make his move on far turn, just mowed down the opposition at will round-, ing tile stretch turn, took command while between horses in the stretch and, although he appeared best, he was forced to a drive in the final sixteenth to lengthen his lead to 1 1-4 lengths over the strong finishing Abolere. Abolere, from the stable of M. White-book, also slow to settle into his best stride, closed with a terrific burst of speed in the final furlong, but was hot good enough and he also had a length and a quarter the best of the third horse, Lucky Lable, who had set the pace to the final furlong before weakening. Harry-Lou, the favorite of Cue nine-horse field in the Saturday light feature, paid a .40 mutuel
