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ARLINGTON STEEPLECHASES ♦ Over 0,000 in Prizes for Fascinating Races Through the Field. • Entries for Two Jumping Stakes and Supplementary Nomination for Other Events Due June 1. • There will be upward of 0,000 for steeplechasers at Arlington Park in the course ; of a summer meeting of five full weeks — - thirty days— that will begin June 29 and * be marked by a gross distribution of upward of 25,000, and nominations will be i due Monday, June 1, for tvo stakes, each , of which will carry an added money value of ,000. The stakes are the North Shore and the d Lake Forest, the first two miles, the other f two miles and a half. Both will be handicaps - for four-year-olds and over. The nomination fee in each will be 5, the starting fee 00. Of the added money, ,000 will 1 fall to the second horse in each race, 00 3 to the third and 50 to the fourth. Weights 3 will be announced five days ahead and winners after publication of other than claiming chases will be penalized three pounds. The North Shore inaugural, the salient t feature of last summers steeplechasing over r a course that had been constructed in the 2 spring preceding, under the supervision of f Herman I. Pels, the Belmont Park superintendent, to conform in almost every particular to the Saratoga standard, was won by Joseph E. Wideners six-year-old Arc 3 Light, which had scored in a Grand National 1 at Belmont Park in September, 1929. Mrs. ._ Helen Hay Whitneys Valorous, a son of f Pennant and Courage, that had sold on one 3 occasion for 5,000, and on another for r 0,000, brought up second, with Valentine 3 Cranes Personality third, William F. Hitts 3 Crumpler fourth, Wideners Milan fifth, and j William Sheas Fair Class sixth. ARC LIGHTS SUCCESSES. Arc Light was destined to win another r Grand National at Belmont last September, . but lost the winners portion of a 5,000 3 stake to Tourist II. through disqualification ■y and, after that, revivals of the Governor r Ogle, at Laurel, and the Gwathmey Memorial, at Belmont Park. Personality, a son ■! of Captain Alcock and Pandora Girl, and j half-brother of Dowagiac, a fencing development of the first steeplechasing patrons of f Chicago racing, had enjoyed in more than a x quarter of a century, traveled East in 1 . August to defeat Beelzebub, Caid, Huffy, Rooney and the veteran Jolly Roger in a I renewal of the Beverwyck at Saratoga. The coming Lake Forest will be the first t and, like the North Shore, revivals of it t will be features of future meetings at the ; spacious and beautiful North Side park. Last year there were not as many steeplechasers s out from the East, where the best are always s to be found, as there will be this year because :- nobody in the East knew how the e sport would take. That it took well the e institution of the Lake Forest attests. There e will be half a dozen new western stables s boasting jumpers this season. All will find 1 an improved course. Last summer the jumpers had to race over fresh sod that t had been put down on an inner skinned i track, one mile and a sixteenth around, 1, which lay within the fences of the main i track, which is one mile and an eighth around. Seeding last fall and the rains s and snows of the winter past have improved I this sod immeasurably. The Arlington i schooling course, standard in every particular, - is the best in the country. RICH ARRAY OF STAKES. With these steeplechases, ten stakes, to o be renewed on the flat, which had a first t closing March 7 and attracted 1,500 nominations, - will have a supplementary closing. f, These are the Classic, 0,000 added, one e mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds; Arlington - Handicap, 5,000 added, one mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds and over; ; Post and Paddock, 5,000 added, three-quarters, - for two-year-olds; Arlington Cup, , 0,000 added, one mile and a quarter weight t for age, for three-year-olds and over; Stars s and Stripes Handicap, 0,000 added, one e mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds and I over; Arlington Oaks, 5,000 added, one e mile and an eighth, for three-year-old fillies; ; Arlington Matron Handicap, 0,000 added, I, one mile, for mares, three-year-olds and I over; Hyde Park, 0,000 added, five and a J half furlongs, for colts and geldings, two-year-olds; Lassie, 0,000 added, five and a i half furlongs, for two-year-old fillies, and I Arlington Inaugural Handicap, ,000 added, I, seven-eighths, for three-year-olds and over. The Classic, with a field of normal 1 strength competing, should gross about t 0,000 and pay its winner close to 0,000. . It will be the richest special run anywhere e in the world this season for three-year-olds. Already there are 134 eligibles. The Post t and Paddock, for which 277 nominations s were made March 7, should top 5,000, with i between 7,000 and 8,000 for the winner. ■. The Arlington Cup, which probably will be the richest weight-for-age race of the season l on this side of the Atlantic, ought to gross s about 0,000.
