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ARLINGTON STARTER Roy Dickerson to Dispatch the Fields at Chicago Track Nearly 1000 Stall Reservations Already Received Most Promi ¬ nent Turfmen Represented The American National Jockey Club Wed ¬ nesday announced several items of import ¬ ance the first of which is the signing of Roy Dickerson first assistant to Mars Cas sidy New York Jockey Club starter as the starter for Arlington Park The naming of Mr Dickerson virtually completes the roster of officials for the coming meeting at the great northwest side track Mr Dickerson is well and favorably known among horsemen in the East and is highly regarded He will join an official body com ¬ posed of Christopher J FitzGerald presiding steward Martin Nathanson associate and Joseph McLennan racing secretary secretaryIn In addition to announcing the acquisition of Dickerson as starter some of the stall reservations of which there are already nearly one thousand were made known The applications include such well known ownea and stables as H P Whitney Rancocas Sta ¬ ble Glen Riddle Farm Stable Max Hirseh R T Wilson and W J Salmon Earl Sande Foxcatcher Farms Stable and others equally as well known knownThe The Rancocas Stable division which will be raced at Arlington Park will be composed of twentytwo horses under the care of John Lowe Hildreths first assistant This divi ¬ sion may include Leucite Donnay and Mel Foo The trio are all eligibles for the Ken ¬ tucky Derby and may be seen in some of the stake races on the Arlington Park program probably in the Classic the 60000 added threeyearold contest to be initiated during the coming meeting meetingDISPLAY DISPLAY MAY COME COMET T J Healey will probably be at Arlington Park in person to supervise the training cf the WilsonSalmon Stable which includes among others the great Display winner of the spectacular Hawthorne Gold Cup of 1923 Ten stalls have been requested for this com ¬ bined stable stableG G D Widener through trainer A J Joy ner has requested seven stalls As Jack High conqueror of both Blue Larkspur and High Strung in the Hopeful Stakes last year is owned by Mr Widener Chicagoans may get the chance to see the excellent son of John P Grier in action This may be in the Classic ClassicThe The Glen Riddle Farm Stable 01 Samuel D Riddle owner of Man o War will race it Arlington Park having reserved nineteen stalls Chicagoans saw the last of the great sons of Man o War Crusader at Hawthorne in the Hawthorne Gold Cup which fell to Display Battleship Gray is probably the main reliance of the Glen Riddle Farm in the older division this year and this threeyear old will be among those named in the Classic ClassicThe The stable will be well fortified with juve ¬ nile sons and daughters of the famous horse however and it is likely the youngsters will make up the greater part of the stable stableDU DU FONTS BIG STABLE STABLEWilliam William du Fonts Foxcatcher Farms Stable will come West with twentytwo horses It was Mr du Pont who imported the crack English colt The Satrap with the hope of seeing him race in the United States After training for a few weeks The Satrap went wrong and was retired permanently to the stud studThe The Foxcatcher Farms Stable is more than well fortified with promising juveniles whila some of the better known horses threeyear olds and over are Fair Vena a recent win ¬ ner at Havre de Grace Perkiomen Rocka phine Pink Lily and Ruler RulerJust Just what horses will comprise the string of twentytwo which will carry the popular light blue and brown colors of Harry Payne Whitney of New York is not known at present As there is still considerable time before the Arlington Park meeting James Rowe the chief trainer of the Whit ¬ ney stable is taking his time deciding decidingAmong Among the many good horses which Rowe will have to choose from for the Chicago campaign are Coots Swatter Dress Ship Moonstruck Murky Cloud Latch Key and Pollywog PollywogIncidentally Incidentally it will mark the first time since racing was revived on a big scale around Chicago that the Whitney colors were represented representedAnother Another famous name will be noted in Max Hirsch This great trainer who trained and raced the brilliant Sarazen for Mrs Graham Fair Vanderbilt will bring twelve horses the property of various owners to Chicago His stable is a public one and he trains for a number of owners ownersThe The Keeneland Stud will have fourteen at Arlington Park Sagamore Stable sixteen Norman W Church ten and D E Stewart under whose name the horses of J N Cam Coutiutied on sixteenth page Continued from first page den are racing this year will have seven ¬ teen teenEarl Earl Sande will ship his entire stable to Arlington Park This will include Hermi ¬ tage his Kentucky Derby candidate and prob ¬ able candidate for the Classic Milady Chan ¬ try and a few twoyearolds Sande probably will request and receive permission to ride his own horses when the weight assignment permits permitsW W F Scheid will bring My Sis conqueror of Jock in the Harford Handicap on the open ¬ ing day of the Havre de Grace meeting This brilliant filly a Kentucky Derby eligi ¬ ble will be pointed for the filly races and also for the threeyearold races for both sexes sexesMy My Sis will find a worthy rival stabled at the course in Current the great filly owned by R S Clark She will be seen during the meeting Mr Clarks stable will com ¬ prise sixteen horses horsesGolden Golden Prince winner of this years rich Coffroth Handicap will meet the best from the East and West at Arlington Park Gol ¬ den Prince is coming from Tijuana along with eighteen others under the care of Harry Unna partowner and trainer of the son of Golden Guinea GuineaW W R Coe has asked for fifteen stalls Preston Burch will ship twentyfive of the Nevada Stock Farm Stable horses The Sea ¬ gram Stable the perennial leader of the Canadian turf will race once more around Chicago and include Arlington Park among their campaign grounds Sixteen horses make up the string to be sent here