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PLAN ARLINGTON CAMPAIGN Twenty Horses Will Comprise Glen Riddle Band Coming — Ten by Great Man o War. The Glen Riddle Stable of S. D. Riddle, one of the most prominent establishments now being- campaigned on the metropolitan tracks, will send twenty horses West to participate in the Arlington Park meeting anil in the number will be ten sons and daughters of Man o War, Americas super hore, which attained additional laurels when one of his sons, Clyde Van Dusen, scored such a splendid victory in the Kentucky Derby. The stable will be in charge of trainer George Conway, who will be accompanied by Pete Walls, the stables jockey. Battleship Gray, a son of Man o War and Alice Blue Gown, will be the stables main dependence in the American Classic. Shipmaster, also by Man o* War, from Scribble, is also a likely starter in the rich stake. The others in the stable are all juveniles, and they have been entered extensively in the stakes for two-year-olds. According to advices received here, all of the youngsters have been highly tried, and most of them have demonstrated some of the qualities of their noted sire. Among the most promising ones are Dock Eight, chestnut colt, from Milky Way; Full Dress, black colt, from Shady, and Red Cross Sister, chestnut filly, from Scribble, therefore a full sister to Shipmate. Other good ones are Discolored, a colt whose dam is Off Color; Gun Man, a colt from Thrasher, and War Flag, colt, from Whetstone. Others in the band are Yankee j Doodle and War Man. j Begorra, black three-year-old son of The Finn — Heyday, by Watervale, will be one of the fifteen horses that the W. R. Coe stable will ship to Arlington Park from New York. The colt is scheduled to carry the Coe colors during the meeting. He raced into prominence as a three-year-old when he showed a sensational effort in scoring in the Southampton Handicap at Jamaica last week, beating the Rancocas Stables Mei Foo, E. F. Sanfords Brown Wizard and others. He scored by ten lengths, and made the slow track appear fast when he negotiated the mile in 1:38, and the one mile and a sixteenth in 1 :44%.
