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LADY OWNERS REPRESENTED Large Number of Fair Sex to Race Their Horses at Arlington Park. The active interest In turf affairs now bd-ing taken by sportswomen In both the East and West is plainly evident by the large number of stables owned by the fair sex that will take a prominent part in the American National Jockey Clubs meeting at Arlington Park, beginning July 1 and terminating August 2. Prominent among the number ars eastern sportswomen whose colors heretofore have been seen only on the New York and Saratoga tracks. Their decision to patronize Arlington Park the coming season is significant, and testifies to the importance of that plant, and the high estimation in which it is held by eastern turfwomen. Conspicuous among the number are Mrs. Henry C. Ihipps, who affects the racing alias of the Wheatley Stable, and whose colors have been carried by such capable racers as Distraction, Dice, Nixie and Diavolo, and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, niece of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Riddle, owners of Man o War. Mrs. Jeffords owns the two-year-old sensation of spring racing in the filly Good As Gold, winner of the Aberdeen Stakes at Havr* de Grace, the Pimlico Nursery Stakes and Pimlico Homebred Stakes. Mrs. L. G. Kaufman, Mrs. Katherine El-kins Hitt, Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, Mrj. Graham Fair Vanderbilt and Mrs. Herbert Pulitzer are others of prominence whose stables will be campaigned at Arlington Park. Mrs. Kaufman, who races under the name of the I.oma Stable, owns the crack three-year-old Twink, which went amiss while in early spring training, but may be ready to start in the American Classic, outstanding racing event of the Arlington season. Mrs. Hitt has been producing throughbreds in Virginia for a number of years, and the stable she will ship West will comprise the home-bred colts and fillies Hot Toddy, Hiawatha, Eterne, Irish Morn, Geronimo and Sunvir. Including Mrs. Kaufman, eight sportswomen have made entries to the American Classic, the winning cv/ner of which will, in addition to first money valued approximately 3,000, receive a ?5,000 gold cup. They are Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, who has named Aquastella ; Mrs. G. F. Vanderbilt, who entered Chlcatie ; Mrs. John D. Hertz, who named Nettie Stone ; Mrs. W. M. Jeffords, who nominated Constitution ; Mrs. Herbert Pulitzer, who entered Tipperary II. ; Mrs. E. Denemark, whose Frances Milward is in the list, and Mrs. E. L. Swikard, who is represented by Chip. These ladies have also made nominations to the other ten stakes to be decided during the meeting.
