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FIELD OF FIFTEEN OR MORE : » Crack Band of Fast Sprinters to Start in Arlington Inaugural. ♦ Great Contest Assured With Track Record i in Danger in Mondays Opening Day Attraction. ♦ A field of fifteen or more is indicated for the third Arlington Inaugural Handicap, at seven furlongs, which will be Mondays introductory attraction of the thirty-day meeting at Arlington Park. There may be 1 three or four starters from stables that are arriving from Belmont Park and Aqueduct. The subscriptions and added money in this race already total ,525. Fifteen at 00 j each would mean a gross of 1,025, twenty a gross of 1,525. Fairly certain starters are Tannery, Epithet, Ned O., Siskin, High Foot, Morsel, Lady Broadcast, No More, My Dandy, Silverdale, Pigeon Hole, Cayuga, Brown Wisdom, Pansy Walker, Satin Spar, Ladder and Don Leon. Roy Carruthers hopes to hear before Sunday from Belmont Park that Thomas Healey will have Halcyon or Pennate, or maybe Marplot of the Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney stable at the track and, possibly, Balko of the Sagamore outfit of Mrs. Margaret Emerson Amory will report in time for the race. Halcyon, a son of Broomstick and Prudery and a three parts brother of Victorian and Whiskery, has defeated St. Brideaux in a Queens County Handicap at Aqueduct since trimming Great Gun and some others at seven furlongs in the mud at Belmont Park. He is in under 110 pounds. If Balko, the most successful sprinter in the East, reports he will have to pack 130 pounds, top weight. Satin Spar, of Willard Macks Bill Bee Stable, something of a sensation in sprinting on the Pacific Coast last winter, is in under 107 pounds, which is little enough, considering that he made Gallant Knight gallop a mile in 1:36% and establish a new record at Washington Park to beat him by a head recently. Gallant Knight, in under 123 pounds, probably will wait for the Stars and Stripes Handicap, a dash of one mile and a furlong, for three-year-olds and over, that will gross upward of 5,000, a week from Saturday. This son of Bright Knight can sprint when he has to, though. He set a new track mark of 1:16 % for six furlongs and a half at Churchill Downs Kentucky Derby day. Tannery, of E. F. Prichards establishment, must shoulder 115 pounds on account of the steady good form he has revealed Continued on twenty-first page. FIELD OF FIFTEEN OR MORE Continued from first page. at Washington Park after a smart beginning in Kentucky. He will come in for a generous play Monday. High Foot, one of the fastest of the three-year-olds that trained a year ago last spring for the Kentucky Derby, in the future betting about which he got a heavy play, has been saved specifically for the Inaugural by the Valley Lake Stable, otherwise the Nash brothers, Chicago native sons. In one of his trials last week he turned three-quarters of a mile in 1:11. The Inaugural coming will mark the first appearance as a three-year-old of Siskin, winner of last seasons Agua Caliente Futurity, a Hyde Park at Arlington and a Joliet at Lincoln Fields. The burden of this son of Epinard and Ruddy Light is 109 pounds. Siskin has trained satisfactorily at Lincoln Fields. Epithet, the only two-year-old that finished in front of Jamestown last year, must shoulder 113 pounds because he whipped the son of St. James and Mile. Dazie in the Hopeful revival at Saratoga, which netted him 5,000. He is top weight among the three-year-olds likely to start. Handi-capper Joseph McLennan allotted 117 to Equipoise, but that son of Pennant and Swinging is out for the season. Epithet has galloped handsomely for Jack Middleton since Mason and Hanger, who paid 0,000 for him at the dispersal sale of the G. A. Cochran stable at Belmont Park, sent him West. Henry McDaniel has described Epithet as the fastest horse he ever trained. Morsel and Ned O, the former winner of a Prince Georges Handicap at Bowie in April, the latter holder of the Arlington Park record of 1:23% for seven furlongs, which he made last July, freshened since early in May, like High Foot and Siskin, have been pointed for the Inaugural. Buck Foreman holds that Ned O. was never before as good as he is now. Morsel and the veteran Misstep are the best horses that will bear the silks of Leo J. Marks at Arlington. Misstep, the better horse, unluckily has no stake dates there. He was at stud service in the winter. Silverdale, which won last Julys Inaugural, picking up ,000 for running seven furlongs in 1:24% in front of Pigeon Hole, Golden Prince, Live Oak, High Foot, My Dandy, Jock, Cayuga, Karl Eitel, Brown Wisdom, Current and Sandy Ford, has been slow finding his racing legs this season, but his last at Washington Park promises sharp and immediate improvement. The same is true of Pigeon Hole, which was at Agua Caliente in the winter with Mike Hall, winner of the 00,000 Agua Caliente Handicap. Pigeon Hole won last years renewal of the Arlington Handicap. Ladder, Walter Salmons good three-year-old, a son of Ladkin and Panoply and half brother of Annapolis, perhaps will show to better advantage in a sprint like the Inaugural. Ladder has plenty of speed but does not appear to want to carry it farther than one mile. In a dash of seven furlongs he ought to manage 109 pounds nicely. It could not be said truthfully that Brown Wisdom, 110, or My Dandy, 115, are as good as in former years, but both are thoroughly fit. Lady Broadcast, holder of the Arlington record of 1:35% for one mile, is in at 108 pounds and may be dangerous.
