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I ARLINGTON TURF NOTES | * i ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 21. Preston Burch is due to reach Arlington Park Sunday with sixteen horses belonging to the Dixiana Stable of Charles T. Fisher and Admiral Cary T. Grayson. The shipment will be headed by Voltear, an eligible to the American Classic and other stakes to be decided through the course of the meeting. Balzar, another three-year-old, will also be included. The more promising in the stables juvenile division are Hi Chick. Mucker, Irish Polly and Sweet Beam. The Coldstream Stud, owned by C. B. Shaffer, is due to reach Arlington Park next Monday from Latonia, in charge of the veteran trainer Frank M. Taylor, who, during his long turf career, has trained some of the best stables ever raced in this country. The stable is a large one and contains many horses which should win at an early date. Among the number are Call Play. Negodale, Mole Hill and Laundryman, all of which are eligible to the Classic ; the six-year-old Barbara, a nominee to the Stars and Stripes Handicap, and Plucky Pal, Wild Mint, Gentle-Play and Wild Waters, all two-year-olds, which have been named for the Post and Paddock Stakes. Nineteen stalls have been reserved at Arlington Tark for the Glen Riddle Farm Stable that trainer !eorge Conway will campaign during the mid-summer meeting at this track. The stable will be one of the most pretentious that will come from the East, and will include sons and daughters of the great Man o War. all of which were bred by th-ir owner. Samuel D. Riddle. The stable will beheaded by Battleship Grey, threi-yt ;.!-•; 1 son of Man o War, and the establishments main reliance for the American Classic. According to the condition books lor the first ten days of the Arlington meeting, just issued Wf r.u lug secretary Joseph McLennan, the Jockey Club during that period will distribute anions horsemen, in stakes and purse.-, a grand total of .4.i00. a daily average of 3,41!0. The second condition book will call for still greater rewards for the horst -th« n iii:-s!iiui-h as the pe-rioel it will cover will include July 13, when the American Classic, with its endowment of 0,000, will be decided. During the first ten days of the meeting, four stakes are to be run, these being the American National Handicap, with ,o»0 added ; the Stars and Stripes, with an endowment of ».000; the Post and 1addocls Hai.dicap, of 0,000 value, and the Cherry Circle Handicap, wlmh has J" 0 n, and is one of the least valuable of the stakes.
