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LOCAL SEASON AT HAND Great Array of Horses Available for Washington Park Racing Secretary Shelley at Track and andBusy Busy Arranging Preliminaries Preliminariesfor for Inaugural 1 1Chicagos Chicagos metropolitan racing season will begin next Monday at Washington Park the opening feature being the Washington Park Inaugural Handicap 5000 added at six fur ¬ longs for threeyearolds and upward Nom inations for this race numbered 104 Each racing day there will be seven events rang ¬ ing in value from 1200 to 2000 the excep ¬ tions relating to those fixtures having a value of either 5000 or 10000 The star attraction the American Derby is to be decided Saturday June 14 It will have a total value around 63000 and probably 53000 for the winner including a silver trophy trophyThe The Washington Park Inaugural Handicap is one of three topline events to be decided the first week T ie second will be the Debutante Stakes on Decoration day One hundred and thirtytwo fillies in the two yearold division have been named in this five and onehalf furlongs race Saturday May 31 the Robert M Sweitzer Handicap will be run This drew 104 nominations from the threeyearolds and upward division The distance will be one mile and oneeighth The Thomas Curran Memorial will be the feature Saturday June 7 Eligibles number ¬ ing 150 were named in the twoyearold colts and geldings division The distance will be five and onehalf furlongs The Illinois Oaks 10000 added at a mile and an eighth will be for threeyearold fillies Eightythree were nominated The Francis S Peabody Memorial 10000 added at a mile and a quarter will be run Saturday June 28 In this race 111 threeyearolds and upward were named namedThe The array of entries in the seven stakes including many of the best horses in training supply finer tone according to C W Hay general manager of Washington Park than is usual in Chicago racing So pressing is the demand for stalls that he is experiencing difficulty in finding room at Washington Park also Lincoln Fields course He thinks the overflow will extend to Hawthorne track a situation hitherto unknown unknownW W H Shelley secretary of Washington Park Jockey Club arriving Friday at his office was greeted by a greater number of owners trainers and others identified with Continued on twentyfirst page LOCAL SEASON AT HAND Continued from first page the turf sport than he had ever encountered in connection with the opening of a meeting in Chicago He as accompanied by all of his assistants and Avithin a minute after he had removed his coat and hat he Avas about the busiest man in Illinois attending to the details and preliminaries for Mondays in ¬ augural of the thirtyday session sessionSecretary Secretary Shelley began the distribution of badges and the registration of horses number ¬ ing closo to 2000 half of which will be as ¬ signed stalls at Washington Park the re ¬ mainder at Lincoln Fields or elsewhere elsewhereJudge Judge Charles F Trice steward in charge of racing looked on the scene lie indicated that tho meeting holds higher promise in point of merit than any other in tho record of Chicago meetings Judge Pric6 said he was pleased over the extraordinary enthusiasm of horsemen as indicated in the splendid class of performers sent here or due to arrive within a week weekThomas Thomas Young track superintendent and his assistants after working until far into Thursday night were at their task before daylight Friday on account of the arrival of nine cars of racers from Louisville These included the shipments of IMose Lowenstein AV C and JB AV Ileichert K J Lehmann Jake Lowenstein and F 3VF Grabner all Chi cago turfmen including the horses of C II Trotter of Louisville and AV G Yanke of San Francisco FranciscoMisstep Misstep outstanding performer of those racers brought to the course yesterday looked oven better than last season when he sparkled as tho peer of the handicap division in these parts partsarose arose Lowenstein has the largest band of performers at AArashington Park In all twentyeight will be saddled by him He has other than Misstep his star the cracks Canaan Maudlin and Morsel stake material He has several twoyearolds every one of which has shown fast trials Horses trained by Moso Lowenstein Avill be prominent in Chicago racing Robert S Shelley assistant secretary at AVashington Park motored to Aurora today His mission was to complete arrangements for entries in Mondays card at AVashinglon Park
