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— i ARLINGTON TRACK AT BEST ♦ Stands Acid Test of Recent Torrential Rain Storm. » Track Superintendent Billy Myer Promising Lightning Fast Course for Monday If No Bain Falls. The acid test of the track at Arlington Park, for the resoiling and improving of which 0,000 has been spent since last season by superintendent Billy Myers, a past master of the art of building and tending race courses, was applied last Monday night. The four hours torrential rain of that evening left the perfectly drained northwest side course in such condition that horses of all sorts were breezing three furlongs through the homestretch Tuesday morning in :36 and :37. With bright weather Sunday and Monday forenoon, superintendent Myers promises that he will have a track Monday afternoon over which a first class horse will turn a mile in 1:36 or better. The weather right, Myers believes that the winner of the Arlington Inaugural Handicap will shade the track record of 1:23% for seven furlongs which Ned O. established last year. Ned O. may do this himself. Saved specifically for Arlington Park racing, that Maryland-bred son of Campfire is at top form. But he will have his work cut out. Other Inaugural prospects whose speed has been edged up are Epithet, Siskin, Tannery, No More, Brown Wisdom, Satin Spar, High Foot, Pigeon Hole, Morsel, Silverdale, Con Amore, etc. The high quality of the Arlington racing impending is indicated by the circumstance that the stables, great and small, that will supply its material — the establishments of C. V. Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Bernard B. Jones, John Hertz, the Zieglers, Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, William R. Coe, Victor Emanuel, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Hal Price Headley, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Sylvester W. Labrot, Joseph Leiter, George Wingfield, Ral Parr, Mrs. Margaret Emerson Amory, Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, Walter J. Salmon, the Waggoners, etc. — have full representation or at least a formidable division of their establishments. With his stabling capacity doubled, general manager Roy Carruthers would not have been able to take care of all the horses for which stalls were asked. Nominators in Arlington Park steeplechases are Joseph E. Widener and his daughter, Mrs. M. W. Holden, James Simpson, Jr., the Sewickley Stable, Albert C. Bostwick, G. H. "Pete" Bostwick, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, J. Fred Adams, R. B. Allen, Edward Riley Bradley, Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, Victor Emanuel, E. J. Kaufman, George Elkins, Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, John W. Lawrence, Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart, A. Charles Schwartz, Morris Vehon, Bayard Warren, Miss Blanche Watson and John Pat McGovern.
