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i - i t I t s - I , J 1 t - , / i e i ;. - t I r i y i i s f •- o II [ARLINGTON PROGRAM BOOK « No Purse Less Than ,500 With Steeplechase Every Other Day. ♦ Alluring Opening Day Card Featured by ,000 Inaugural Handicap — Same Officials as Last Year. 1 The overnight racing during the Arlington Park annual summer meeting of thirty days, opening Monday, June 29, is patterned after that of 1930, when opportunities for the top • flight horses in all divisions widely outnumbered those granted the less fashionable • thoroughbreds, according to the program of • conditions for the opening ten days, as re- leased by general manager Roy Carruthers 1 for distribution among the horsemen at ; Washington Park and Lincoln Fields. No purse of less than ,500 is offered, and one event for steeplechasers of ,000 j minimum will be run every other day. On , days when a steeplechase is on the program , seven races on the flat will be run. In addition to the ,000 added Inaugural Han-l . dicap, for three-year-olds and over, at seven , furlongs, and the ,000 Onwentsia Claiming , Steeplechase, the opening program includes J the ,000 Highland Park Purse, for three-l , . year-olds and over, at nine furlongs; the ,G00 Springfield Purse, for three-year-olds, at one mile, and four races of ,500 value I i each. Including the steeplechase four of the eight races making up the Inaugural card will be decided over distances of a mile , or more. Officials in charge of the racing will be the same as last year, C. J. Fitzgerald and [ George Brown, Jr., returning as stewards, while Cary T. Grayson, Major L. A. Beard [ and Arthur B. Hancock are to serve as hon-3 orary stewards, and H. P. Conkling as stew- and representing the National Steeplechase J and Hunt Association. Joseph McLennan, racing secretary, will ! be assisted by N. H. McClelland and Mr. Conkling in the placing judges stand, while Roy Dickerson will direct the starting and . | Charles J. McLennan is to act as clerk of scales and assistant racing secretary, Horsemen are advised of the closing on July 20 of nominations for the 5,000 added l Arlington Futurity, and 0,000 added Ar-e lington Lassie Stakes, to be run in 1932. The former is for two-year-old entire colts and fillies of 1930, and the latter for two-r year-old fillies of 1930. In addition to conditions for the first ten | days the program booklets as distributed Wednesday, contain nomination lists for the 4 Arlington Handicap, Stars and Stripes Han-i dicap and Lassie Stakes, the first three of the twelve stakes arranged for the meeting.
