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ARLINGTON PARK OUTLOOK Prospects Bright for Wonderful Meeting, With Foremost Turfmen of Country Participating. Predictions have been made that Chicago will be the scene this year of some of the best racing seen in this country. Judging by the requests for stable reservations and entries for the stakes to be run at Arlington Park during the approaching June meeting, not only the most prominent of the western owners, but also the outstanding turfmen of the East will be represented in the racing at Chicagos newest and largest race track. Among the foremost of eastern establishment that may be seen here are the Rancocas Stable of Harry Sinclair, which is trained by Samuel C. Hildreth, one of recognized leaders of his profession in this country. Other probable invasions from the East will be representations from the stables of Bernard Baruch, who was a noteworthy figure under Woodrow Wilsons wartime administration. The M. L. Schwartz, the George W. Loft, the Mrs. Herbert Pulitzer, whose father-in-law, Joseph Pulitzer, was the founder and editor of the New York World, and the H. W. Sage stables. Willis Sharpe Kilmer of Binghamton, N. Y., whose wonderful racer Exterminator won the 1918 Kentucky Derby, connected with breeding on a classy scale, will be represented by fifteen thoroughbreds. Also on the list of -table space reservations allotted to the eastern invaders api ears the name of the Seagram Stable, whk-h is owned by the justly famous Seagram brothers of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. With such a galaxy of Eastern thoroughbred representation and all the outstanding owners of Illinois, Kentucky and the West in general clamoring for stall space at Arlington, and with the revival and renewal on Saturday, June 9, of the historic American Derby, which started in 1884. and which was the original blue ribbon of the American turf, Chicago bids fair to regain its old prestige as one of the greatest racing centers in the country. «
