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LARGE EASTERN DELEGATION « Outstanding Stables of New York Circuit to Race at Arlington. ♦ foseph McLennan Brings Glowing Reports of Unusual Interest Manifested in Coming July Meeting. ——* "All Broadway will follow the thoroughbred class of the great eastern racing stables to Chicago for the July meeting at Arlington Park," Joseph McLennan reported exultantly to Charles McCulloch, chairman of the board of directors of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, immediately after his arrival from the East to collaborate with general manager Roy Carruthers in the fabrication of a program for the Arlington racing. "We ought to have a thousand more stalls," he mourned. "If we had we could easily fill them with eastern horses alone. At Belmont Park and about the other Long Island tracks one hears nothing so much as laudatory stuff about the generosity of the Arlington purses, which, whether offered in annuals or overnight events, are far and away the most generous hung up anywhere in the world, and the liberal character of our general program. The big folk of New York never talked more in advance of a meeting, of August racing at Saratoga than they are talking now of this coming July racing at Arlington Park. "We will have twice as many big stakes as we had last season, twice as many horses of all grades and ages. With the good horses, of course, will come the best of the Easts jockeys. We were not so terribly lucky in the eastern horses that came out last July. Spring and early summer casualties operated against us. Whichone went wrong after the Belmont and couldnt make the classic. Boojum, Whichones brilliant two-year-old stable companion of the season befort last, did not train at all. Whichone, through with racing forever, is at the stud, but we will have Boojum this summer. After a seasons rest that lightfooted son of John P. Grier and Elf is galloping soundly again under the eye of Thomas Healey, trainer-general of the stable of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. "The trek this way will begin after the finish of the Belmont Park summer meeting in mid June. It will be at its peak before the end of the summer session at Aqueduct. John J. Brady, Jr. of the Horsemens Transportation Company has already arranged to bring thirty-five palace-car loads of horses from Belmont Park. He will, very likely, be called on to fetch as many again from the other Long Island courses and from Maryland. "We will be exceptionally fortunate in the quality of our steeplechase horses. The fencing fraternity of the Atlantic seaboard was skeptical of the success of steeplechas-ing out here when we initiated it last season. The flattering reports of the attractiveness of our nsw course and the enthusiasm of the patrons of Arlington Park brought back last August by Tim Donohue, trainer for Joseph E. Widener; Tom Rodrock, trainer for Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt; Gwyn Tompkins, trainer for Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane; the elder James Healy, trainer for Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark; Vincent Powers, trainer for Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney; Willie Booth, trainer for John R. Macomber, and sundry others convinced all doubters that the Arlington Park Jockey Club had opened a new and splendid field for the exploitation of the jumping horse." •
