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INTERNATIONAL RACE OUTLOOK Proposed 00,000 Contest at Arlington Park Depends Upon Success of Mission of C. J. Fitzgerald Abroad On the success of the mission to England and continental Europe of Christopher J. Fitzgerald depends the proposed International race at Arlington Park in the course of the summer meeting from June 30 to August 2, inclusive, suggested last June hy John Hertz when he and Mrs. Hertz returned from England with Reigh Count, American three-year-old champion of 1928, which had just lost, after a gallant struggle and hy a narrow margin, an Ascot Gold Cup, a gallop of two miles and a half, to the brilliant Invershin, winner, also, of the Gold Cup of 1928, after scoring himself at Epsom in a renewal of the Coronation Cup, a gallop of one mile and a half. Mr. Fitzgerald sailed from New York the other day on the Berengaria. If he can bring the right horses overseas the International will be run on August 2. It will be a weight-for-age gallop of one mile and a half for three-year-olds and over, three-year-old colts carrying 11G pounds, fillies 111, older horses and geldings 126 pounds, mares 121. Three horses from England, Ireland or continental Europe acceptable to the racing committee of the Arlington Park Jockey Club must come to America in due time and one of these must start, but none at any course on this side of the Atlantic save Arlington Park before August 2. The Arlington Park Jockey Club will add 00,000 to a subscription of 00 each and a starting fee of ,500. The field will be restricted to fourteen horses picked by the racing committee, with discrimination from the various nominations. Fees paid for rejected horses will be returned, but 00 must accompany each nomination. With fourteen contestants the International would gross 28,000, of which 8,000 would go to the winner, 5,000 to the second horse, 0,000 to the third and ,000 to the fourth. AMERICAS REPRESENTATIVES. With Blue Larkspur, champion three-year-old of 1929 : Diavolo, ,Sun Beau, Misstep, The Nut, Curate, Ben Machree, Victorian, Petee-Wrack, Mike Hall and other approved long distance runners available, there will be no dearth of American talent for the International. And, Mr. Fitzgerald is supremely confident that he can bring over some first rate Europeans, possibly more than three. He has especially in mind Palais Royal and Cacao, two of the field that trailed Reigh Count in the Ascot Gold Cup ; Athford, contender in the Coronation Cup, and the Italian distance running champion Othello. A steward of Arlington racing, a producer of thoroughbreds in this country and a buyer in American and European markets for other producers, Mr. Fitzgerald has had successful experience at the busi-he is in. He brought the Epsom Derby winner Papyrus over the Atlantic in the summer of 1923 to be beaten by Zev at Belmont Park in October in the Westchester Racing Associations 00,000 match race of one mile and a half. Also he persuaded the French sportsman Pierre Wertheimer, to bring Epinard to America in the autumn of 1921 for a series of three International races. Should the foreign horses fail to qualify by a day to be set the Arlington Park Jockey Club will substitute a weight-for-age gallop of one mile and a quarter, open to all comers, for three-year-olds and over, with an added money value of 5,000.
