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IMPRESSED WITH ARLINGTON • Dudley Stable Therefore Will Race There During Meeting. ♦ Two-Year-Olds In Majority la String Coming to Chicago — Great Success as Breeder. — Gentry Horse Coming. ♦ Making his first visit to Arlington Park one afternoon during the June meeting of last year, Colonel W. S. Dudley, prominent citizen of Lexington, Ky., was so impressed with the magnificent plant that he there and then promised the officials that his stable would be among those that would be campaigned at the track during the approaching season. He is about to make good that promise for he has not only applied for stabling room for fifteen horses, but he also has nomi-mated the best ones in his establishment to the various stakes to be decided during the course of the meeting, which opens July 1. The stable is largely composed of two-year-olds and eleven of the number are among the eligibles to the Lassie Hyde Park and Post and Paddock Stakes. Included in the list of eligibles are Miss Matt. Easter Morn, Miss Plunger, Mike Brown, Miss Elizabeth, Ada M., Silver Foot, Panky, Miss Bess, Ruth Mayes and Margaret Needham. Another one, Jim Dandy, was recently sold by Colonel Dudley for an amount reported to be 5,000. a very high price for a two-year-old. Colonel Dudley is one of the largest coal operators in Kentucky. His mines are located in the eastern part of the state. In business he is associated with Senator J. N. Camden. It was the latter who was instrumental a few years back in inducing his partner to embark in the thoroughbred raising as a recreation. Although Colonel Dudley has been in the sport but a few years he has been eminently successful, particularly in th-a breeding branch of the sport, for his farm has already produced a number of horse3 that have sold for big prices. The colonel is in the business purely for the pleasure to be derived therefrom, and with no thought of gain. He is one of the best known and most enthusiastic attendants at the Kentucky race meetings, and he is planning to be on hand every afternoon of the Arlington Park meeting. Lloyd Gentry, who only a few years back was riding horses for the stable of Rome Respess, has, since abandoning the saddle a few years ago, developed into one of the most successful of Kentucky trainers. He is coming to Arlington with one of the largest stables that will be sheltered at that track. The horses in his care number twenty-six head, some of which are Gentrys own property, while the remainder are the property of various owners, who include R. E. Lech-lei ter. H. R. Curran, Viking Stable, Brownell Combs, Kallisdidit Stable, G. Coggins and O. EL Roehm.
