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i • « . 1 t . 1 " ■ i i • 1 I i I : I i . I AVENGER NAMED FOR OAKS I * Whitney Filly Supplementary Nomi- J nation for Arlington Filly Race. ♦ Opiopio and Issaquena Also Entered for ] Rich Fixture — Gross Value Expected to Be About 0,000. ♦ Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys Avenger is one supplementary nomination for the second Arlington Oaks, which will gross about 0,000 July 11, at Arlington Park, i Others are Charles Hartwells Opiopio and 1 the Paradise Farms Issaquena. Each of J these nominations cost 00. It must be considered significant that they were not 1 named March 7, at the first closing of the Oaks when they might have got in at 5 each. A dash of one mile and a furlong, the second Oaks will be for three-year-olds i fillies exclusively. It should gross about 5,- ! 000, and pay its winner close to 0,000, the j size of the purse depending on the number of starters at 50 each. It will be a close finish between the second Arlington Oaks and the fifteenth Coaching Club American Oaks as regards value. The Coaching Club American Oaks is a fixture of spring racing at Belmont Park. It is a gallop of one mile and three furlongs. ] Avenger is a daughter of Dis Done and Nemesis. She won three of ten races last j season, finished second once and third three j times. She has won one race this season . and manifested a pronounced disposition to go on in two or three others, sprints of six | furlongs. The March 7 Oaks nominations , of the C. V. Whitney stable were: Thais, a , half sister of The Nut; Peter Polly, a sister of Macaw, Prudery and Prudish; Summer Day, a daughter of Chicle and Maud Muller, , and Zelide, a daughter of Mad Hatter and j Wendy. Wendy is a half sister of the bril- . liant Boojum. , Opiopio, a chestnut daughter of Bon Homme and Kitty Troxell, bred in California, won two of three races at two, and finished third in the other. Her last winning race was at Tanforan in April. That made three out of four, which is no bad average for any kind of horse. Issaquena, a daughter of Tryster and Joys Delight, won two of fourteen races at two, finished second twice and third twice. She defeated a fair band at Latonia July 3, last when she defeated Deemster, Elysium, Town Limit, Polinos, Knights Call, Gun Fire, Pollys Boy, Peace Lady and Right Now over five furlongs and a half. She acts like she might go on, too. Joys Delight is a daughter of Gay Crusader, daddy of Bright Knight and grand dad through Bright Knight of Gallant Knight, Her Grace and Knights Call. Other Oaks eligibles are Cousin Jo, Risque, Buckup, Tambour, Dark Magnet, Ladana, Baba Kenny, Tony Princess, Betty Derr, Sunny Lassie, Silver Beauty, Peake, Brusher and Allez Vite. Alcibiades won the Oaks inaugural last July, with Dustemall second and Valenciennes third. »
