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• . , . . ■ [ j ! ; j J ] ■ • ! 1 l l 1 1 | : . i t i • i i • j AMBITION OF JOHN HERTZ i To Stage "a Stake a Day" for Fu- , ture Meetings at Arlington Park. » Optimistic Over Outlook for This Years Racing Feature, the Classic, Richest of All Three-Year-Old Events. • A stake a day is the aim of John Hertz, chairman of the executive committee of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, for racing at Arlington Park, the biggest and most com- . modious racing place with the possible ex- ; ception of Belmont Park in the world. And i that objective should profoundly interest J horsemen and producers of thoroughbreds ! in all parts of the country, also abroad. ; For the Arlington Park Jockey Club is committed to a program of thirty days of racing ; annually and no stake of less than ,000 in added money could find a place on a card that boasts a Classic with 0,000 added, the greatest sum contributed anywhere in the world to a special event for three-year-olds; a Post and Paddock Stakes and an Arlington Handicap, each of 5,000 added; J a 0,000 Arlington Cup and a 0,000 Stars , and Stripes Handicap, etc., and a ,500 mini- ! mum for overnight races. Mr. Hertz, back from the great Lexington . thoroughbred sales, is collaborating earn- . estly with Roy Carruthers, general manager -of Arlington Park, in preparation for the coming summer session, the third under the , aegis of the organization he brought into existence three years ago, which boasts of j a directorate of the biggest men in Chicagos big affairs that will be marked by a purse . distribution of nearly, if not quite 50,000. , There will be more than 00,000 in added money. There is no profit to promoters in | Arlington Park racing, no interest to in- j vestors on the 2,000,000 odd dollars they | staked to make it a go. Arlington racing is a civic enterprise, for the glorification of Chicago, the entertainment of its citizens and the people of the country round about, and of visitors from states near and remote, who, in annually increasing numbers, are ! making Chicago their summer vacation ! place, and for the improvement of the breed . of horses. AWAIT BETTER TIMES. i Mr. Hertz does not expect to realize his ■ stake a day ambition until times are better, ] and he will not stop until he attains it. But, he does not fear that the business depression . will materially affect the coming meeting. j "If our receipts are somewhat curtailed," ] he said, "it will not matter greatly. There i will be other years when business will be good. We want native sons and daughters, and Chicagos summer visitors to come to . Arlington Park, which is as pleasant a place as anybody could find at which to spend a day as could be imagined, whether to bet, j or to look on. Amid the most attractive surroundings all will find the best things to i eat and drink at loop prices, and see a great i show of thoroughbreds. "Whether the meeting is as successful as j was last years, from the office angle or not, y it will be vastly better from the standpoint ,• of sport, and as good as the best the country ■ will afford. We will have the finest horses of the most powerful eastern and western t stables competing in our overnight races, as j well as in our stakes, and the most famous ] ; jockeys in the country riding. "It may come to pass that no single colt t j is going to monopolize the three-year-old f j racing of the country this season as Gallant j Fox, . which defeated Gallant Knight, Ned O. and . others in the second Arlington Classic, j after scoring brilliantly in a Wood, a Preak- ] : ness and a Kentucky Derby, and then went j East to win a Lawrence Realization and a , Jockey Club Gold Cup, dominated last sea- 1 son. So it is more than merely probable that the third Classic, like the first, which , saw Blue Larkspur, winner at Belmont Park , of a Withers and a Belmont; defeat Dr. J Freeland, winner of a Preakness; Clyde Van j Dusen, winner of a Kentucky Derby; Windy City, winner of an American Derby, and . Grey Coat, his own conqueror in a Dwyer, c j at Aqueduct, and establish, beyond dispute c his claim to the three-year-olds champion- * , ship of 1929 may fix the championship of ] . 1931. Jamestown, Instigator, Sun Meadow t j and sundry other pretenders to the current i , seasons championship have not taken part ] . in the recent Preakness, Wood Memorial T and Kentucky Derby revivials. Mate the ! ] Preakness winner and Instigator am1 one t or two others are not Withers and Belmont c ehgibles. All the stars, barring Epithet are j m the Classic, and it is a good bet that i j Epithet will be nominated when supple- g j mentary entries are made June 1 in the c Classic and all other Arlington stakes that j had a first closing March 7. So the lot of them must come to Arlington Park for the determinative struggle. We may have fif- t teen contestants. SUPPLEMENTARY ENTRIES. l "When supplementary nominations are i x made June 1 for the Classic, the Cup, the i 1 Arlington and Stars and Stripes Handicaps, I t the Post and Paddock Stakes, etc., entries F will be made, also, for the North Shore c J Steeplechase revival and the Lake Forest f Steeplechase inaugural, our specials of 000 t each, for four-year-olds and over, the one a ■ gallop of two miles, the other at two miles ■ and a half. j "We were much gratified last summer by t ± the support eastern horsewomen and horse- * men, interested particularly in steeplechas-mg, t and the Chicago public accorded our * to € efforts to stage at Arlington Park the first c racing for jumpers on a considerable scale d . t this part of the country had had in more s than a quarter of a century. The chasing ° of coming will be more attractive than that 8 was because there will be more and better 1] In fencers I from the representative establishments r of the Atlantic seaboard and Canada * out. We are warranted in believing that the J local patronage of this spectacular phase of t * racing will be more generous. No patron i J of flat racing stays away when steeplechas- * 1 ing is featured, and steeplechasing appeals ■ E strongly to many men and women for whom * * flat racing holds no particular interest." s
