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ARLINGTON CUP ELIGIBLES ♦ Great Array of Star Long Distance Campaigners Among the Entries. • Sun Beau, Blue Larkspur, Gallant Knight, Mike Hall, Spinach and Others Expected to Strive for Rich Prize. ♦ ■ A survey of the ninety-four nominations for the second Arlington Cup, with 0,000 added, at one mile and a quarter, which probably will be the countrys most richly dowered weight-for-age race for three-year-olds and over this season, as the first, which Blue Larkspur won was last, reveals the eligibility of such distance running stars of mature years as Blue Larkspur, Mike Hall, Sun Beau, Gallant Knight. Mirbat, Sun Beau and Spinach, with a raft of lesser horses and many of the most promising three-year-olds. The subscripitions of the ninety-four nominations have already increased the cup value to 4,700 and there may be several "supplementary nominations" at 50 each June 1. With so many good distance running three-year-olds about, it is fairly certain that there will be eight or ten starters at 00 a head, which assures a gross of close to 0,000 and 2,000 or 3,000 to the winner. There will be ,000 for the second horse. ,000 for the third and ,000 for the fourth, also, an addendum of plate for the winner. Sun Beau, which has won two Hawthorne Gold Cups, two Washington Handicaps, a Potomac, a Havre de Grace, a Latonia Championship, etc., is the great money winner among the Cup eligibles. Recently he won a Philadelphia Handicap at Havre de Grace, increasing his earnings to 81,769. The only American horses topping him now are Gallant Fox, 28,165, and Zev, 03,639. Sun Beau is after Gallant Fox mark with a good chance of passing it before the end of the year. The big Sun Briar horse is resting in the East now awaiting a July campaign at Arlington Park. OUTSTANDING TURF STARS. Blue Larkspur, whon won a Stars and Stripes Handicap last year, as well as the Arlington Cup Inaugural and an Arlington Classic the year before last after having scored at Belmont Park in a Withers and a Belmont, has accounted for 72,070. Mike Hall, Chicago owned, the property of the publisher R. M. Eastman, pushed his earnings above the 00,000 mark in March when he won the second Agua Caliente Handicap, one mile and a quarter, in which Sun Beau was a beaten favorite. Mirbat, a French horse Edward Riley Bradley bought last July, won a Pimlico Cup, two miles and a quarter, last November. Spinach, which licked Sun Beau in a Havre de Grace handicap last September, won upward of 00,000 after the middle of last August. Other veterans among the ninety-four cup possibilities are Bargello, which has just won a Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs; Jim Dandy, which defeated Whichone and Gallant Knight in the last Travers at Saratoga; Her Grace, winner of the last Maryland Handicap at Laurel; Paul Bunyan, winner of the last Dixie at Pimlico; Jack High, which set a new American competitive mark of 1:35 flat for one mile when he won a Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park last spring; the 00,000 Englishman, Challenger II., and Sydney Grant. Conclave, Caruso. Escutcheon, Ned O., Nopal, Jimmy Moran, Pigeon Hole. Valenciennes, Prose and Poetry, Sun Falcon, Porphyry, Fortunate Youth, Dixie Lad, Whiskery, Plucky Play. Crucifixion, Michigan Boy, Mokatam, Houssain, Brown Wisdom, Naishapur, Tippy Toe, Milkman, Live Oak. Snowflake, Sortie, Quarter Deck, Sandy Ford, Kai Feng, Calf Roper, Pansy Walker, Battle Axe, The Nut, Boojum, Lady Broadcast and Gone Away. Pigeon Hole won an Arlington handical last July, Sandy Ford a Dixie a year ago last April. The Nut won a Lawrence Realization and a Latonia Championship at three, Whiskery a Chesapeake Stakes and a Kentucky Derby and revivals of the Huron and Twin City handicaps in 1927. BRILLIANT THREE-YEAR-OLDS. brilliant three-year-olds and others not yet called brilliant but hopeful, are Jamestown, Twenty Grand, Equipoise, Sun Meadow, Insco, Magnifico, Bar Hunter, Barometer, Levanta, Ilium, Phantom Star, Portenesia, Purple Dust, Noon Whistle, Fervor, Blenheim, Hyman, Black Forest, Sir John Alden, Charmer, Arab, The Tide, Schooner, Major Lanphier, Spanish Play, Gaelic Prince, Boys Howdy, Bosafabo, Surf Board, Checkerberry, Anchors Aweigh, High Day, Don Leon, Smile On, Polydorus, Pilate, Sir Percival, King Arthur, Blind Bowboy, Ormesby, Launcelot, Manchonok, Knights Call and Hillsborough. Three-year-olds get in weight-for-age races at one mile and a quarter in July under 114 pounds, while older horses must pack 126. And generally it takes an uncommonly good four or older to lick a top hole three-year-old. Reading backward revivals of the Saratoga Cup since 1901 have been won by the three-year-olds Gallant Fox, Reigh Count, Espino, Mr. Mutt, My Own, Johren, Omar Khayyam, Friar Rock, Countless, Olambala, Beldame, Africander and Blues. ■
