view raw text
Fairmounts Week-End Feature Engages Seven Bright Imp, Hopeful Sam to Face Coupling in King Bebe, Tiger Bee By J. J. HAHN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., June 10. — The 60-day-night meeting of the Fairmount Park Jockey Club swings into the second half of the long session with Saturdays nine-race offering which is headed by the ,000 Southern Illinois Handicap. It is for three -year-olds and upward and to be staged as the seventh race. Only seven are entered including the H. H. Rendleman coupling of King Bebe and Tiger Bee, a pair of half-brothers - who were bred near Anna, Illinois by their owner. Scheduled to match strides with the Rendleman entry are Harold W. Ostles Bright Imp, a surprise winner of the Cairo Handicap and second last week in the Lincoln Handicap, dropping a head decision to Mrs. Sam Orrs Dr. Rees, Mrs. T. M. Pruetts Fays Reaper, considered the handicap champion, here because of her victories in the Memorial Day Handicap as well as the Red Bud Purse, J. and S. Hanovers Galway Boy, Art Schroders Harry-Lou, who won the St. Louis Purse the second night of the meeting and has been close up in all races since that victory; and Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Tripletts Hopeful Sam, the successful one in the Belleville Purse and one. of the most popular horses to race here in recent years. Hopeful Sam is to pack the top impost of 117 pounds, two more than Harry-Lou and three above the poundage given King Bebe. Following the older horse, is the Rendleman entry of King Bebe at 114, then Mrs. T. M. Pruetts Fays Reaper at 113, while Galway Boy is next at 109 and Tiger Bee, the only three-year-old in the race at 108 and Bright Imp, the lightweight of the iield at 107 pounds. The secondary feature is the one mile and a sixteenth sixth race in which seven are scheduled to go postward. In this race are several winners at-the meeting and the chief threat seems to be Clynon should the course be other than fast. Matched against Clynon are Crenie-de-Cocoa, Texas Reward, Bob o Nick, Star Crater, Mr. Stone and Anderson.
