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Fifteen Go in Lamplighter Handicap Bunnys Babe Will Give Foes Weight Monmouths Route Event for Sophomores Has Star Rover, Westward Ho Among Line-up By WILLIAM C. PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 24. The 10th running of the Lamplighter Handicap, worth 6,200 for "the impending edition, will be presented here on Saturday headed by Colonel E. P. Bix-" ers Jersey-bred Bunnys Babe under 118 pounds. A field of 15 sophomores was named to compete at a distance of one mile and a sixteenth and the group contains several young performers who have caused a stir of interest in recent weeks. The winning member will receive a net purse of 8,950 if the field remains intact. The race appears wide open and any one of several could emerge the betting favorite. A group . of three are weighted closest to Bunnys Babe, at 116 pounds. They are Clearwater Stables Portersville, Cain Hoy Stables Racing Fool and Christiana Stables Thinking Cap. Breckinridge Longs Westward Ho and Eugene Constan-tin, Jrs., Our Prince are weighted equally under. 115 pounds, and Mrs. Irving Gush-ens Star Rover must carry 114. The others range downward to 104 pounds. Bunnys Babe, a gray son of Attention and Mad Bunny who was bred at Jack Delanys Del-Brier Farm in nearby New Shrewsbury, was highly regarded last week in the seven-furlong Shevlin Stakes. Ran Fifth in Shevlin Bunnys Babe finished an unaccountably poor fifth in the Shevlin, although a week i before he had defeated the winning Gold Box and several others in the field in an overnight sprint that was only his second start of the season and seemed to promise improvement. Last year he won the New Jersey Futurity, New Jersey Breeders Stakes and the Babylon Handicap, and finished a close third to Summer Tan and Nashua in the Cowdin. It is presumed Bunnys Babe will be capable of successfully racing the mile and a sixteenth distance, and if one can disregard his Shevlin performance, he looms deserving of his high impost. Star Rover, although nominally weighted, was extremely impressive capturing the six-furlong Select Handicap in an invasion from New England. He is another gray colt, although by Flushing n. out of Miss Moonbeam, and he displayed an ability to carry his speed to a mile when he finished second at that distance in an overnight handicap at Suffolk Downs. Star Rover was never endangered winning the Select by two lengths under 109 pounds and he has won four of his eight starts this year. Walter Blum will be his pilot. Westward Ho will be well received by the public from his race in the Shevlin when he carried 120 pounds to 11L on Bunnys Babe and finished fourth, five lengths in front of Col. Bixers colt. Westward Ho, a homebred son of Lochinvar, came from behind to win the mile and a sixteenth Kent Stakes at Delaware Park and he overcame a bit of impedence to turn in his effort in the Shevlin. Portersville finished third in the important Belmont Stakes, and although no match for either Neshua or Blazing Count, it must be termed a good effort. He- also finished second to Nances Lad in the mile and a furlong Peter Pan and there is no doubting his ability to handle the distance of the Lamplighter. Racing Fool took a string of four triumphs, including the Blue Grass Stakes, then finished a distant fourth in the Kentucky Derby and was unimpressive , coming East for the Withers and Leonard Richards. Thinking Cap has not won a race since the Pimlico Futurity last fall, but he was a creditable third to Saratoga in the Leonard Richards Stakes and seems to be gradually improving in form.
