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CRACK BRIGADE NOMINATED Named for Arlington Classic Jack High Entered in Sev ¬ eral Arlington Stakes Thomas M Cassidy has wired Roy Car ruthers managing director of Arlington Park that his good colt Crack Brigade winner a year back of the Colorado Stakes revival at Jamaica will surely make the second Arlington Classic at one mile and a quarter which will be run at Arlington Park in mid July The race has 70000 added this year and should be worth considerably above that sum to the winner winnerCrack Crack Brigade a splendidly developed son of Light Brigade and Crack o Doom was a brilliant performer in this years early spring racing He made a splendid showing against Gallant Fox in the Wood Memorial at Ja 7iiaica in April and then went down to Pim lico in May to put William Woodwards great colt to a hard drive in the Preakness He finished second in both race It was reported from Louisville after the running of the Kentucky Derby that Crack Brigade came out of the race with sundry cuts and bruises Cassidy found when he got Crack Brigade back to Jamaica that his hurts were super ¬ ficial They are yielding already to treat ¬ ment and Crack Brigade should be in fine fettle for the Classic ClassicCrack Crack Brigade on his performance in the Preakness loomed up among the topnotchers of the threeyearold division He is a colt of high speed and carries it splendidly under weight Cassidy has an idea that his failure to go on with Gallant Fox at Louis ¬ ville after the challenge in the far turn was due to his cuffing an ankle His rear ankle was bleeding when he returned to the scales after pulling up This was Crack Brigades most serious injury injuryCrack Crack Brigade is in the Arlington Cup a 25000 weightforage race for threeyearolds and over of one mile and a quarter that will be run toward the end of the thirtyday meeting meetingAnother Another distinguished nomination for Arlington July stakes received by Carruthers this week was Jack High That son of John P Grier which defeated Blue Larkspur in a Hopeful renewal at Saratoga a year ago last summer and licked Chestnut Oak in a renewal of the Shevlin at Aqueduct last July after bowing to Blue Larkspur in a Withers and a Belmont set a new American competi ¬ tive mark of 135 for one mile at Belmont Park last Saturday when he won a renewal of the famous Metropolitan Handicap HandicapJack Jack High belongs to George D Widener of Philadelphia a nephew of Joseph E Wid ¬ ener president of the Westchester Racing Association and reconstructor of Belmont Park He is trained by Andrew Jackson Joyner a veteran horseman famous on both sides of the Atlantic for his skill in handling thoroughbreds Jack High has been named for the Stars and Stripes and Arlington han ¬ dicaps gallops of one mile and a furlong and one mile and a quarter respectively for threeyearolds and over and the Arlington Cup
