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EVENING IN CLASSIC G. D. Wideners Florida Derby Winner Among the Entries. Jamestown, Another Owned by Philadelphia Sportsman, Also to Race at Arlington Park. .Evening, which became the sensation of winter racing by winning five straight races, climaxed by the Florida Derby, is among the more than 100 nominations received for the fourth running of the 0,000 added Classic, the worlds most valuable race for three-year-olds and the feature of Arlington Parks thirty-day meeting here this summer. Nominations to seven major events at the beautiful noth side course closed last Tuesday. The daughter of St. James and Crepus-cule and Jamestown, juvenile champion of the 1930 season by virtue of six victories and a second out of seven starts, head the entries of George D. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman, whose stable will make its first trip away from the tracks on the Atlantic seaboard when it comes to Arlington Park late in June. Directing the Widener horses is A. J. Joyner, dean of American trainers, who enjoyed great success for several years in England just prior to and during the early days of the Great War. Evening, in addition to being in the Classic, is a nominee for the Arlington Oaks and Arlington Matron Handicap, along with Sheltered and Tittanita, and Jamestown is a candidate for the Stars and Stripes Handicap, Arlington Handicap and Arlington Cold Cup, each a 0,000 added event. Jamestowns juvenile triumphs included the Saratoga Special and Futurity Stakes, the latter under 130 pounds. Only his sire, St. James, and Domino were others to annex the great juvenile attraction under the maximum impost for colts, equal to the load of 127 pounds carried by the filly Top Flight last year. The latter, incidentally, is in the Classic, also the Arlington Handicap and Arlington Gold Cup. As a three-year-old last spring Jamestown started out auspiciously by taking three straight races, including the valuable Withers Stakes, but Twenty Grand took his measure in the Belmont Stakes and after failing to show any semblance of his form in the Shevlin Stakes he was retired for the season. Mr. Joyner often has expressed himself as being disappointed with the race run by the son of St. James and Mile. Dazie in the Belmont and in reporting several weeks ago that Jamestown was in fine condition, said both he and Mr. Widener were anxious for another clash with Twenty Grand, gen-enerally accepted as the three-year-old champion last year. Mr. Joyner also announced that Jamestown would have no stake engagements this season prior to those at Arlington Park, and he intends to train the colt with the Stars and Stripes, Arlington Handicap and Gold Cup in view, making no effort to have him in racing condition before midsummer. This is "also the promised program of Twenty-Grand, so the two Belmont rivals of last year may be expected to come up to their Arlington campaigns without facing the chances of becoming jaded from prior racing. The feats of Evening during the recent meeting at Hialeah Park are fresh in the minds of racing enthusiasts. In her first start at the Miami course, the daughter of St. James failed to distinguish herself, and in a moment of disgust Mr. Joyner ordered his assistant, W. F. Mulholland, to place her in a claiming race at a valuation of ,750. Happily he was not claimed, and she won that event so easily that she gained new importance with her connections. Her next, four victorious starts included the Hialeah Highweight Handicap and the 0,000 Florida Derby, in which she soundly trounced Cathop, Lucky Tom and others. No other campaigner this winter caught the eye of the public so fully as did the comely Widener filly, which Chicago fans may expect to see in action during July at Arlington Park.
