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STARS IN GOLD CUP RACE Secretary Joseph McLennan, of Hawthorne, Leaving for East to Arrange Shipments to Cicero. CICERO, 111., Aug. 17. Joseph McLennan, secretary of the Hawthorne race track, will leave Thursday morning for Saratoga, N. Y., to arrange for the shipment of horses that are to compete in the Hawthorne Gold Cup, which will be run Saturday, August 27. The Hawthorne Gold Cup will probably be the last of the important stakes run in the Chicago district in 1932 and will be a fitting climax to the various prizes which have been run. at the race tracks already operated and which have brought to the Chicago public the outstanding horses of all ages in the United States. The Hawthorne Gold Cup has always been accepted as the championship race of the year and, while it is much earlier than usual this season, it will probably go down in history as producing the champion winner of the year. Outside of Twenty Grand and Questionnaire, both of which are more or less doubtful quantities on account of unsoundness, every great horse of the country is entered in the race and the best of them will no doubt be seen at the post on Cup Day. The Hawthorne Gold Cup is now on exhibition at. a prominent corner on Michigan Avenue and is considered by those who have seen it as the most beautiful of all those offered in previous years. The Chicago Business Mens Racing Association has always attempted, in selecting the cup, to get away from the old established pattern of a trophy and offer something distinctive. This years cup is m tripod shape, set on amber colored marble, with a horse of pure gold standing in the center of the tripod, symbolic of the thoroughbred enshrined. Photographs of the cup have been sent to owners of prominent horses entered in the race and several replies have been received complimenting the management on its selection.
