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ARLINGTONS 1930 STAKES Entries for 70000 Classic and Other Events Close May 28 Ten Jticlily Endowed Tcalure Attractions AttractionsOffered Offered 30COO for Steeplechasers Xo 1urse 1css Than 1500 Otto Lehmann president of the Arlington Park Jockey Club and Charles McCulloch chairman of the board of directors expect a generous response from the horsemen of the United States and Canada to their call for nominations for ten stakes that will be inaugurated or renewed at Arlington Park in the course of a meeting of five full weeks that will begin June 30 These stakes will close this coming Wednesday May 28 28Between Between 625000 and 650000 will be dis ¬ tributed in prizes in the course of this meet ¬ ing ingThe The ten stakes closing Wednesday May 28 are areClassic Classic threeyearolds mile and a quarter 70000 added addedArlington Arlington Handicap threeyearolds and up ¬ ward mile and a quarter 35000 added addedStars Stars and Stripes Handicap threeyearolds and upward mile and a furlong 20000 added addedArlington Arlington Oaks threeyearold fillies mile and a furlong 15000 added addedPost Post and Paddock Stakes twoyearolds six furlongs 15000 added addedArlington Arlington Inaugural Handicap threeyear olds and upward seven furlongs 7500 added addedArlington Arlington Matron Handicap threeyearolds and upward fillies and mares one mile 7500 added addedHyde Hyde Park Stakes twoyearold colts and geldings five and onehalf furlongs 5000 added addedLassie Lassie Stakes twoyearold fillies five and onehalf furlongs 5000 added Cherry Circle Claiming Stakes threeyear olds and upward one mile 5000 added addedThe The Arlington Cup a weight for age race of one mile and a quarter for threeyearolds and over with an added money value of 25000 will remain open until June 14 This special will have the place on the program of August 2 that was to have been taken by the 100000 International a gallop of one mile and a half The racing committee declared the International off because of the impossibility of bringing over seas enough horses of class to make it a genuine inter ¬ national championship test No horse of any country is barred from the Arlington Cup but it is not likely that the inaugural will attract any outlanders outlandersThe The minimum purse at Arlington will be 1500 and there will be eight races on days of steeplechasing The Bahr starting gates will be generally used but the management reserves the right to dispatch fields with or without it as the exigencies of the sport require requireThe The Classic increased 10000 in added money should gross 90000 to 95000 and pay its winner upward of 80000 80000The The Arlington Handicap lengthened frqm one mile and a furlong to one mile and a quarter for threeyearolds and over will have 35000 added and should pay the win ¬ ner as much or more The added money in the Arlington Cup exceeds that of the Sara ¬ toga and Jockey Club Cups by 20000 and 15000 respectively The added money in the Stars and Stripes Handicap will be 5000 greater than it was last July The same will be PaddockLike true G the Post and Paddock Like the Arlington Cup the Oaks and the Matron and Arlington Inaugural handicaps are new races and there will be plenty of fillies and mares three years old and over for the Oaks and the Matron All races of one inile will be run over the new mile course the finishedThe construction of which is about finished The greatest innovation at Arlington this year is the steeplechase course which was built under the direction of H I Pels superin ¬ tendent of Belmont Park For the first time within living memory patrons of Chicago rac ¬ ing will see this coming July steeplechasing of the sort enjoyed at Belmont Park Sara ¬ toga Woodbine Park and Pimlico There ThereMnnn e 3 ° 00 ° for the Jumpers in fifteen Mnnn AOOO purses
