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JOHN HERTZ HORSES READY + Risque, Star of Stable, Reported in i Splendid Racing Condition. « Others in String on Edge for Engagements *- at Arlington Track — Misstep Not Far From a Race. ♦ Frank Hackett, manager of the stable of John Hertz, chairman of the executive committee of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, says he brought a score of mighty fit horses to Arlington Park for the thirty days of racing that will begin June 29, to run through to August 1. Bill Knapp is training the Hertz lot. Earl Steffen does the riding. The Hertz stable had a fine trip East. Risque, winner of a Lassie at Arlington Jast July, and a Spinaway at Saratoga in August, won three races at Belmont Park, and Well Heeled and Seb, which belong to Herbert Bayard Swope, and one or two others scored. It was not winning races at the big Long Island course though, that interested Hackett and Knapp. What the Leona campaigners did there was intended as preparatory work for the Arlington races. The various horses were brought gradually to form and held ready by moderate exercise. They are not only fit now, they are fresh and full of pep. "We are particularly anxious," Hackett said yesterday to Otto W. Lehman, president of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, who runs down from Fox Lake every morning to see his home-bred two-year-old Orphan Prince training and encourage the work of putting the West s finest racing place in a state of fitness for what is sure to be its best meeting as regards the character of the sport it will develop, "for a go at Tambour with Risque. We were unlucky in not having Risque in the Coaching Club American Oaks. Scuttle, a maiden, ran Tambour to a length. Scuttle, unquestionably is a smart filly. She wont remain in her maiden state long. But no maiden would have got that close to Risque in a gallop of one mile and three furlongs. We have an account to balance with Preston Burchs filly. She beat us in last falls revival, at Laurel, of the Selima and for more than 6,000." It was the conviction of many observers that Tambour owed her victory in the Selima, a dash of one mile, to the precipitation of Steffen. Master Earl made entirely too much of Hertz filly in the first three-quarters. Hackett and Knapp have not despaired of Wrigley Field, a highly tried yearling of the season before last, which disappointed last year at two. Wrigley Field is in the Arlington Inaugural Handicap, at seven furlongs, the first day at Arlington, July 29. Risque is in the Arlington Matron Handicap with Valenciennes, which won the Matron Inaugural last season. Valenciennes is in the Stars and Stripes and Arlington Handicaps and the Arlington Cup by herself. Two-year-olds of which plenty is expected are Well Heeled, Epin, Pairbypair, Watch Him, Gandhi and Risk. Risk, a daughter of Sir Gallahad III. and Risky is a half-sister of Risque. She was a 6,000 yearling of one of Arthur Hancocks sales of last summer at Saratoga. Epin is a Leona-bred son of Epinard daddy of Siskin, Epithet, et al, and Cotton Blossom. Hackett and Lehman looked over the Le Mar stable horses, some twenty, which Mose* Lowenstein brought to Arlington Park last week, and were impressed particularly by the condition of Misstep and Morsel. Hackett allowed that it was lucky for a lot of horsemen that Misstep, which did a season at the stud in the winter past, is not in the Inaugural and the Stars and Stripes Handicaps. "This one is up to a brisk race of six furlongs now," he stated. "To have had him ready for a sprint of seven furlongs June 29, and a gallop of one mile and a furlong the Fourth of July would have been dead easy for a trainer like Lowenstein. Watch Morsel. He was a bearcat in Florida last winter. Four out of five after New Years, tfce last three in a row. Then he came up to Bowie to trim Paul Bunyan and eight or nine others, easily, in a Prince George Spring Handicap. Paul Bunyan went right over to Pimlico and licked the best handicap horses of the East in a Dixie Lowenstein has freshened his horses «■• :~ the finish of Maryland spring racing. They are as right as rain." Lowenstein s _.uu.it_.. are as peppy as his stake horses.
