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CLASSIC DATE JULY 15 Arlington Park Jockey Club Announces Stake Schedule. 0,000 Futurity Reserved for Last Saturday of Meeting Great Array of Rich Fixtures. With the 5,000 added Arlington Classic set for Saturday, July 15, and the 0,000 Arlington Futurity scheduled for the final afternoon of the thirty-day meeting, dates for the stakes were announced Saturday by Charles A. McCulloch, chairman of the Arlington Park Jockey Club directorate. They are as follows: Monday, June 26 Arlington Inaugural Handicap, ,500 added, for three-year-olds and over, seven furlongs. Saturday, July 1 Hyde Park Stakes, ,500 added, for two-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs. Tuesday, July 4 Stars and Stripes Handicap, 0,000 added, for three-year-olds and over, one mile and a furlong. Saturday, July 8 Lassie Stakes, 0,000 added, for two-year-old fillies, six furlongs. Saturday, July 15 Classic, 5,000 added, for three-year-olds, one mile and a quarter. Saturday, July 22 Arlington Handicap, 0,000 added, for three-year-olds and over, one mile and a quarter. Saturday, July 29 Arlington Futurity, 5,000 added, for two-year-old colts and fillies, six furlongs. "The total distribution of money from the seven Arlington stakes should amount to approximately 30,000," chairman McCulloch said, "and with our overnight purses closely approaching the levels of previous years, Arlington Park should again have the highest total and greatest average daily outlay in the world." The stakes program was arranged following a conference of the executive committee and racing secretary Joseph McLennan and was designed so the shorter Hyde Park Stakes would serve as a stepping stone for the richer Lassie Stakes and Arlington Futurity, the same also holding true in the case of the Stars and Stripes and Arlington Handicaps, it was pointed out. Only the Inaugural and Stars and Strides Handicaps of the seven stakes are not scheduled for a Saturday, but there will be numerous other attractive features for the mid-week racing, Mr. McCulloch said, as racing secretary McLennan will have the finest horses in the country from which to draw.
