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STABLE OF J. E. WIDENER o Noted Eastern Turfman to Race at Arlington Park. Curate niul Otlier Good Racers on Flat Together with Several Star Jumpers To Come Here. Joseph E. Widener, steward of the Jockey Club and president of the Westchester Racing Association, who lias bespoken stabling for fifteen horses for the coming July racing at Arlington Park, has an all round establishments For the second Arlington Classic, a gallop of one mile and a quarter, he will have Mr. Sponge and, possibly, another first rate three-year-old. For the Stars and Stripes, Arlington and City and Suburban Handicaps and the International race he will have Curate. Xo man in the country owns a better lot of steeplechasers and there are seventeen smartly tried home-bred two-year-olds claiming for sires Fair Play, Haste, Stefan the Great, Xorth Star III., Buchan, Swynford and St. James in the string Peter Coyne wintered at the Elmendorf Farm in Kentucky and recently took to Belmont Park. Mr. Sponge is a son of Luke.McLuke, the sire, also, of Anita Peabody, the filly with which Mrs. John Hertz won a Futurity and six other races in the summer of 1927, also, of Shuffle Along, Xellie Morse and other good horses. Luke McLuke died at John Hertz Leona Farm, near Gary, 111., not long since. The mother of Mr. Sponge is Black Brocade. Mr. Sponge, accordingly, is a brother of Shuffle Along, Pagan Pan and Jean Bowdre. Curate, which won a revival of the Laurel Stakes in Maryland last fall and afterward finished second to Vanity in a Maryland handicap, to Glen wild in a Biggs Memorial and to The Xut in avLatonia Championship, is a son of Fair Play, a stallion for which Mr. Widener paid the estate of August Belmont 00,000 after the horse had passed his twentieth birthday. Fair Play died last December. His place at Elmendorf has been taken by his son Chance Shot, which at two years of age won revivals of the National Stallion and Saratoga Special stakes, at three years of age a "Withers and a Belmont and at four years of age a Saratoga and a Merchants and Citizens Handicap. Curate is a stout long distance runner. PARI 3IUTUELS ANCESTRY. Pari Mutuel, a bay son of Fair Play at Belmont Park, which may make the Post and Paddock . Stakes revival next July, is a brother of this Chance Shot, also of Chance Play, an equally good horse which, under the silks of W. A. Harriman, won a Lincoln Handicap three years ago, setting a new track mark at Lincoln Fields of 2:041, for one mile and a quarter and earning ,600. Playbill, a chestnut son of Fair Play, is a half brother of Shuffle Along and Mr. Sponge. Novelist, a son of. Stefan the Great and Blue Grass, is a half brother of Broadside and Blind Play. Priory, a son of Haste and Irish Abbess, is a half brother of Curate. These colts, with Stellanova, a son of Xorth Star III. and Memories II., and St. Francis, a son of Stefan the Great and Franconia, appear to be "Wideners best two-year-olds. In Arc Light he has the winner of one Belmont Park Grand Xational Steeplechase and two Manly Memorials ; in Fairmount the winner of three Gwathmey Memorials, one International, one Appleton, etc. ; in Lizard, another winner of two Manly Memorials and a Chevy Chase ; in Lorenzo the winner of a Saratoga, a Xorth American end a Brook ; in MacCarthy More the winner of a Broad-1 hollow ; in the aging but still useful Barleycorn, the winner of a Meadowbrook. And there are Autumn Bells, Lighthouse and some green ones. One of the green ones is Indigo, a four-year-old son of Stefan the Great and Malachite, which won at Arlington last summer. The flat racing and steepleehasing divisions of the Widener string are kept apart. Tim Donohue, one of the greatest of American steeplechase riders of the past, trains the jumpers. "Wideners steeplechase jockey now is Dolly Byers, the acknowledged professional ace of his calling.
