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CANADIAN STABLE COMING Horses of George M. Hendrie to Be Raced at Arlington Park by John Walters. Among the stables owned by people of prominence that will be campaigned at the Arlington Park July meeting is that of George M. Hendrie, well known Canadian sportsman, who will have a stable of eleven horses to carry his colors at the track of the American National Jockey Club. The stable is in charge of John "Walters, who has been in the Hendrie employ for something like twenty-seven years, or ever since Mr. Hendrie first turned his attention to the sport of thoroughbred racing. The establishment is now being prepared for the spring meetings at Woodbine, Thorncliffe and Hamilton, and following the latter meeting will be transferred to Arlington. The stable, as at present constituted, is lacking in such stars as Great Britain and Rancher, which made the Hendrie colors famous a dozen or more years ago, but it is a most useful one, and gives promise of achieving success during the coming months. There are six well regarded two-year-olds in the band, some of which were bred at the Hendrie farm near Lexington. The names chosen for them are Sunny Pal. Le Sport, Workless, Silvery, Merrily, and Boca Grande. Other members of the stable are the four-year-olds Old Times, Storm Signal, and Royal Doul-ton, and the three-year-old Swansea. Great Britain, admittedly the best horse ever raced by Mr. Hendrie, was eminently successful in his racing days, and accounted for numerous stakes. He was particularly successful in races over long distances. At Woodbine he won the 1913 renewal of the Toronto Autumn Cup, over one mile and a quarter, and the following season he duplicated his victory in that stake and also won the Ontario Jockey Club Cup, at a mile and a half. Mr. Hendrie seemed to have had a mortgage on the Autumn Cup for he won it four years in succession. Following the double success of Great Britain, Rancher, another of the Hendrie stables horses, scored in both the 1915 and 1916 renewals of the stake. Estero and Dr. Hickman were other ones that made good for the Hendrie stable, although neither was partial to a route. Dr. Hickman scored in the D. and C. Handicap at Windsor in 1920, and the following year Estero triumphed in the same stake. Spring-side, a Canadian-bred, won the 1918 Kings Plate in the Hendrie colors and the veteran Sands of Pleasure won the Camden Handicap and other stakes when he was in the Hendrie barn.
