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0,000 ADDED CLASSIC Heads Array of Rich Fixtures to BJ Run at Arlington. Seven Stakes With a Total oj 62,500 in Added Money Close: for Entries on March 15.: , I v The Classic, with 0,000 added, the moal valuable three-year-old race in the world, heads the list of seven stakes, to which thl Arlington Park Jockey Club will add a total of 62,500 and which will be highlights of the Arlington Park meeting of thirty days next summer. Entry blanks are now being sent to owners and trainers and nominations to these events will close March 15, with supplementary entries being received until June 1. Besides the 0,000 added Classic, there are three 0,000 added events, the Stars and Stripes Handicap, Arlington Gold Cup and Arlington Handicap, and the 5,000 added Arlington Oaks, ,500 added Arlington Matron Handicap and 0,000 added Hyde Park Stakes also will close at the same time as the classic. These seven stakes will not be the only important features at the beautiful and expansive northwest side course, others taking rank with them being the Arlington Futurity and Arlington Lassie Stakes. These are future events for two-year-olds, the Lassie being exclusively for fillies, for which nominations closed last July 20, with second payments having been received earlier this month. The Futurity will have 5,000 added by the Arlington Jockey Club and should gross above 5,000, while the Lassie, with 0,000. added, should value more than 0,000. BRILLIANT HISTORY. In its comparatively brief history, the Classic has assumed ranking with Americas greatest races for three-year-olds, as its first running in 1929 was taken by E. R, Bradleys Blue Larkspur, its second by William Woodwards Gallant Fox. and its third by Albert C. Bostwicks Mate. Blue Larkspur and Gallant Fox were champions of their respective years, and last summer Mate defeated the 1931 champion, Twenty Grand, in the third running of the rich mile and a quarter special. Officials of Chicagos finest race course are firmly convinced this years Classic will lack none of the lustre that attended the previous runnings of the race, and when the nominations are compiled after March 15 the names of all the prominent juveniles of the 1931 season should be found enrolled. Major Louis Arnold Beard, manager of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys breeding and racing interests and one of Arlingtons honorary stewards, already has announced that Top Flight, unbeaten juvenile champion last season, will make the Classic one of her major objectives. IMPORTANT RACE. Coming as it does in mid-summer after the running of other important three-year-old attractions, the Classic makes provision for a good contest in its condition, which grant non-winners of a three-year-old race of 0,000 three pounds, of such a race of 5,000 five pounds and of a sweepstake at any time, seven pounds. The entry blanks for these races will be returnable to the offices at 33 North La Salle Street Chicago office of the Arlington Park Jockey Club. Full details of the seven stakes are as follows: Classic Stakes, 0,000 added, three-year-olds, one and one-quarter miles. Stars and Stripes Handicap, 0,000 added,; three-year-olds and over, one and one-eighth miles. Arlington Gold Cup, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and over weight-for-age, one and one-quarter miles. Arlington Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and over, one and one-quarter, miles. Continued on second page. 0,000 ADDED CLASSIC Continued from first page. Arlington Oaks, 5,000 added, three-year-old fillies, one and one-eighth miles. Arlington Matron Handicap, ,500 added, fillies and mares, three-year-olds and upward, one mile out of chute. Hyde Park Stakes, 0,000 added, two-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs.
