Reserved For The Classic: Gallant Fox and Whichone to Meet in Rich Arlington Fixture.; Each Reported to Have Suffered No Ill Effects From Stamina-Testing Race in Belmont Stakes., Daily Racing Form, 1930-06-11

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RESERVED FOR THE CLASSIC Gallant Fox and Whichone to Meet in Rich Arlington Fixture Each Reported to Hare Suffered No 111 111Effects Effects From StaminaTesting Itace Itacein in liclmont Stakes The next appearance of Gallant Fox hero of the last renewals of the Wood Memorial Preakness Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes and his most formidable threeyear old rival Whichone if they do not start in the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct will be in the second Classic at Arlington Park July 12 Word to that effect came from New York to Roy Carruthers managing director of the Arlington Park Jockey Club It was con ¬ firmed by James Fitzsimmons trainer of the fourtime winner and Thomas J Healey in charge of Whichone WhichoneWilliam William Woodward and trainer Fitzsim ¬ mons were loath Sunday to discuss the future of Gallant Fox They preferred to wait until they could be sure as to his condition They did not know how a gallop of a mile and a half through slow going at Belmont Park might have affected him They decided Mon ¬ day evening that a training letup of a few days would right him himHe He is sound eating heartily and full of pep But he has nothing on Whichone which he beat in the Belmont That son of Chicle and Flying Witch came out of the Belmont Stakes in splendid condition too Neither Healey nor any other member of the board of strat ¬ egy of the H P Whitney stable will concede that the Belmont result was conclusive They Continued on twentyfourth page RESERVED FOR THE CLASSIC Continued from first page refuse to believe that Wlnchone ran his race Saturday The second Classic a gallop of one mile and a quarter for threeyearolds will with ten horses competing gross 86900 of which 70000 will be added money The winners share will be 70000 The Classic will there ¬ fore be the most richly dowered horse race exclusively for threeyearolds run anywhere in the world this season as the first in which Blue Larkspur confirmed his claim to the threeyearold championship of 1929 by beat ¬ ing Clyde Van Dusen Windy City and Dr Freeland winners respectively of the Ken ¬ tucky and American Dcrbys and the Preak ness Stakes topped all last season seasonTwo Two other prospective starters eastern colts that didnt take part in the Belmont Stakes barring sickness or accident arc Crack Brigade and Gone Away Crack Brig ¬ ade gave Gallant Fox a stiff argument in the Preakness renewal Gone Away split Whtch one and Boojum at the finish of the last Champagne renewal at Belmont Park last September at a time when the Whitney colts were supposed to be unbeatable in twoyear old racing


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