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Tirtaja A Engages Seven In Feature at Fairnnount Sharp Mark Inconstant Test Recent Snider Claim Tonight By J. J. HAIIN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., June 28. The mid-week feature here Wednesday night is the St. Louis Housewares Club Purse, a six-furlong dash for three-year-olds and upward in which eight evenly matched claiming horses are scheduled to go postward. The event, as the sixth race on the nine-heat card, drew Tinaja A.-recently claimed by J. W. Snider and a winner of three races at this meeting. ! Tinaja A., who has a preference for mud, is meeting some stiff opposition and, in the event the track remains fast, the St. Lcuis-owned horse would have to show some improvement to take the measure of the Virginia StablesSharp Mark, winner of her last two races here; Mrs. Frank Moores ; Inconstant, who has also won a pair at the j local session and Tom Bans improving Dis j Pete, who won his first start here last week, defeating a formidable field of runners. Making up the remainder of the field are Quita, Miss Kirkwood, Bold Spot and Pride of Judea. Under the conditions of the race, top-weight of 118 pounds is shared by Inconstant, Sharp Mark, Tinaja A. and Dis Pete. The latter had a successful campaign at Fort Miami and Beulah Park and, because of those successes and his score here, drew the same weight assignment as the others. TinajaA. failed to win during the long meetin gat New Orleans, but Sharp Mark copped a victory during the cold months and added two others here to give him three for the year. In constant was busier than the others in entering the winners circle, garnering two wins last winter and adding two more here to run his 1955 string to four. With the exception of the five-furlong third race, for two-year-old maidens, the balance of the program is turned over to claiming horses of which three are to be staged over a distance of ground. The opening race is at one mile and a sixteenth, teh seventh at one mile and 70 yards and the eighth over the popular mile and one-eighth. Sir Dakota, owned by the partnership of R. and G. Beffa and winner of three at tihs session, will be seeking his fourth of the meeting in the fourth race when he matches strides at six furlongs with a little stiff er opposition than he has been- defeating. His opponents Wednesday night will be Angle Bar, a veteran camnaigner who is always dangerous despite his 13 years; Rusty Brown, Pajara, Sir March, Sunny Nick, Hoosier Havoc, a recent winner from the maiden ranks, and Dainger Ring.
