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RACING AT ARLINGTON Elite of Turfdom Assembling for Meeting Beginning June 27. Awards in Stakes and Purses to Exceed 50, 000 Americas Greatest Stables to Be Represented. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 18 Americas great racing stables, owned in the East, far West, middle West and South, already have begun to assemble at Arlington Park, Chicagos largest and beautiful race course for the thirty-day meeting convening a week from Monday and marking a distribution of awards which may well surpass 50,000 and perhaps reach 00,000. Arrivals at the expansive north side course during the past ten days of the stables of Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, William R. Coe, Mrs. John Hertz, Warren Wright and Morris Vehon have created a bustle even greater than that furnished by the large crew of workmen employed for several months previously in putting every inch of the 1,000-acre property in spick and span order for the opening. With several shipments due to arrive daily during the coming week, at least a thousand horses are expected on the ground before Saturday, while reservations for the full 1,400 stalls at the track should be taken up before the meeting is many days old. At least two special trains bearing thoroughbreds from Belmont Park, Jamaica and Aqueduct have been scheduled. Racing secretary Joseph McLennan, who returned from a visit to the New York tracks Friday, brought word that horses owned by Edward R. Bradley, Foxcatcher Farms, Walter Jeffords, Albert C. Bostwick, Belair Stud, Wheatley Stable, Greentree Stable, A. C. and M. L. Schwartz, K. E. Hitt, William Ziegler, Jr., C. V. Whitney, Le Mar Stock Farm, W. W. Vaughan, George D. Widener and Warm Stable were being intended for early shipment to Arlington and their quarters were made ready. CHICAGO-OWNED STABLES. Every Chicago-owned stable of - note is prepared to mass its strength at Arlington to resist the bids of invading interests for the chief shares of the ten major and twenty minor features on. the stake-a-day program and these, in addition to the several already mentioned, include the racing establishments of Richard and Patrick Nash, Robert M. Eastman, Mrs. E. L. Swikard, James D. Norris, Albert Sabath, Charles B. Shaffer, Val Crane, Abraham Bartelstein, John Marsch, -John J. Coughlin, Emil Denemark, Richard Morris, Fred M. Grabner and L. M. Severson. From other parts of the country, Arlingtons non-profit policy of sport will attract the thoroughbreds of B. B. Jones, Hal Price Headley, A. B. Letellier, R. W. Collins, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Jouett Shouse, Desha Breckinridge, J. Fred Adams, J. W. Y. Martin, Charles T. Fisher, C. H. Knebel-kamp, S. W. Labrot,- Howard Oots, George Wingfield, Charles C. Van Meter, J. B. Res-pess, Wood F. Axton and other prominent owners. Arlingtons racing again will be under the control of Christopher J. Fitzgerald and George Brown, Jr., regular stewards, and the honorary stewards, Admiral Grayson, Major Louie Arnold Beard and Arthur B. Hancock. In addition to being the racing secretary and handicapper, Mr. McLennan also will serve as placing judge with Noah H. McClelland and Charles Henry, and the i . starting again will be under the direction of Roy Dickerson.
