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EPITHET NAMED FOR CLASSIC Epithet, son of Epinard and Fairy Wand i and the only horse that can claim the dis- tinction of having finished in front of 1 Jamestown, last years American two-year- ; old champion, was the first "supplementary nomination" for the Arlington Classic and the other specials for three-year-olds and i three-year-olds and over to be revived in the 1 course of the summer meeting at Arlington I Park that will begin June 29, to continue 1 through August 1, and be characterized by a I purse distribution of between 25,000 and 50,000, which had a first closing March I 7, the ten attracting 1,499 nominations; 1 others must be in June 1. The nomination of Epithet for the Classic, I 0,000 added; Stars and Stripes Handicap, 0,000 added; Arlington Handicap, 5,000 added; Arlington Cup, 0,000 added, and Ar- I lington Inaugural Handicap, ,000 added, 1 came Thursday from the headquarters of I the Warm Stable — Silas Mason and Arnold Hanger — at Lexington, Ky. The Warm Stable acquired Epithet at Belmont Park for 0,000 last week at the executors sale of the estate of Gifford Cochran, late of New York, who bred him and whose silks he bore last season, his first 1 in racing, when he won 5,700. 1
