view raw text
WASHINGTON PARK MEETING Illinois Racing Scene Shifts to Beau ¬ tiful Homewood Course Thursday 25000 Added American Derby Outstanding OutstandingFeature Feature of TwentySeven Days of Racing Plenty of Good Horses Assured The special express trains with hundreds of fleet thoroughbreds and their grooms lounging restlessly in the padded cars are rolling toward Chicago from Kentucky New York and Maryland For on Thursday aft ¬ ernoon the Illinois racing scene shifts to beautiful Washington Park to the south of the city and so attractive is the twenty seven day schedule of stakes and purses headed by the 25000 added American Derby that virtually every major stable in America is anxious to be represented when the curtain rises afHomewood afHomewoodThe The shortage of horses which was threat ¬ ened when so many new race tracks opened this season has passed over Washington Park to judge from the number of jjood thoroughbreds already stabled at the Home wood course and the number of others for which stable reservations have been made About GOO horses have already arrived Four special trains are expected from Louisville within the next two days and prominent New York and Maryland owners have re ¬ served stables at either Washington Park or Lincoln Fields that will be filled before the week is out All indications are that the twentyseven day meeting will have 1000 horses to draw from to fill its daily cards of eight races racesAlways Always one of the most interesting races of the Chicago season because it furnishes the first line upon what sprinters are going to dominate the short races at the local tracks the Washington Park Handicap which serves as the opening day stake fixture promises to be of higher interest in its 1934 running than ever before For one thing fortyfour of the best sprinters in training were named before its closing on May 1 The Australian sprint star Michael Poisons Winooka has been nominated and is a certain starter starterThe The high spot of the Washington Park meeting and of the local season as far as the threeyearolds situation is concerned will be the American Derby to be run over a mile and a quarter Saturday June 2 At present there seems no threeyearold in training capable of beating the Brookmeade Stables Cavalcade at a mile and a quarter or over and as this is the standard dis ¬ tance for determining which horse has enough bottom to win consideration as three yearold champion Cavalcade ranks as the logical candidate candidateThe The American Derby which drew the nom ¬ ination of every ranking threeyearold save Cavalcades stablemate High Quest fur ¬ nishes one of the few opportunities which the other good threeyearolds are going to be accorded to upset Cavalcades claims to the title It is not expected for instance that the trainer of Cavalcade will send him out for such a threeyearold special as the Withers for the horse seems to do his best racing at distances longer than the mile of the Withers and Cavalcade was not named for the Belmont Stake at a mile and a half which shares with such fixtures as the Kentucky Derby the Preakness the American Derby and the Arlington Classic the distinction of determining the three yearold championship championshipThere There are plenty of thoroughbreds of class contained in the list of seventynine Derby nominations from which a dark horse win ¬ ner can be drawn A few are First Minstrel and Spy Hill from the Grentree Stable Dis ¬ covery Agrarian and Mata Hari second third and fourth in the Kentucky Derby George Ogles improving Patchpocket Wil ¬ liam Sachsenmaiers Texas Derby winner Plight and Gf orge D Wideners Chicstraw the colt that proved best of last seasons twoyearolds at the fall meeting meetingThe The largest stable which will be cam ¬ paigned at Washington Park is Joe Patter ¬ sons Audley Farm Stable with sixtyfour horses Col E R Bradley has twentyfour Warren Wrights Calumet Farm Stable has twentyeight Joseph Widener has twelve and the Nash brothers Shandon Farm Sta ¬ ble has twenty twentyThe The admission price at Washington Park this season will be 1 plus tax for grand ¬ stand seats and 200 plus tax for clubhouse privileges There will be no service charge on badges the 30 cents grandstand tax and the 40 cents clubhouse tax being the only charges Transportation by Illinois Central electric train a thirty minutes service faster than that to any other local track will be furnished at a 75 cents roundtrip charge There will be a special train at 1015 Wednesday morning for such of the public as is anxious to visit the course in advance of the meeting
