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TWELVE TO GO IN THE WASHINGTON PARK HANDICAP Australian Sprinting Star Among Entries for Opening Day Feature All Preparations Completed for Inauguration of 27 27Days Days of Racing at Popular Homewood Course Outlook Bright for Successful Meeting HOMEWOOD 111 May 23 Prefaced by the Aurora meeting Chicagos 1934 racing season opens Thursday when the Washington Park Jockey Club inaugurates under ex ¬ cellent conditions twentyseven days of racing at Washington Park one of the countrys HOMEWOOD 111 May 23 Twelve were named overnight for the 2500 added Washington Park Handicap the feature event on the opening days program This is the only sprint stake for the older division oh the tracks roster and it is one of the most im ¬ portant races of its kind ever run on a Chicago track the presence of Winooka in the contest making the result of international interest interestThe The field for the race in post posi ¬ tion order and with weights owners and probable jockeys follows PP Horse Jockey IfSome Pomp 102 J Westrope 2 Dogmata 102 E Arcaro 3 Isaiah 110 J Kacala 4 Pcess Carnelia108 Carnelia108SJClarify W Garner SJClarify 116 1166tBlessed 6tBlessed Event 112 J Smith 7 Advising Anna 112 C Corbett 8 Mr James 105 L Hardy 9 Evergold 113 A Richard 10 Pancoast 108 O Laidley 11 Winooka 126 L Humphries 12fSir Humphries12fSir Ten 106 J King KingfCalumet fCalumet Farm Stable entry W C Stroube and Corsicana Stable entry most extravagant successful and popular racing grounds This meeting the first of four of major magnitude for Chicago before the curtain rolls down at Lincoln Fields early in October brings much important racing engaging horses from many of the countrys leading stables and a galaxy of saddle stars It will be followed in order by thirtyday meetings at Arlington Park Hawthorne and Lincoln Fields The meet ¬ ing at miniature Sportsmans Park will bring the 1934 stand of the thoroughbreds in and near Americas second city to a close Although considerable improvement over last year when receipts were the low ¬ est since the American Turf Association acquired the local course is looked for Col M J Winn managing director of the track is making no overly optimistic predictions He is however confident that the meeting will be successful possibly the best in sev ¬ eral years I am gratified at the number arid quality of the horses that are to race with us said Colonel Winn today and with such cooperation from the horsemen Washington Park will be the scene of some of the finest racing of the year The Amer ¬ ican Derby 25000 added fixture for three yearolds tops the stakes program for the twentyseven days It will be renewed over the usual one mile and a quarter distance Saturday June 2 and with the date of the almost as keen and extensive as evinced in tomorrows opening Among other of the stakes programmed are the Illinois Oaks for threeyearold fillies Debutante Stakes for twoyearold fillies Thomas Curran Memorial Stakes for juvenile colts and geldings and Francis S Peabody Memorial Robert M Sweitzer and Washington Park Handi ¬ cap for threeyearolds and over overWith With the superlative Cavalcade Mrs I Dodge Sloanes great colt taking up defense of his championship claim against a field that will include Discovery Spy Hill Mata Hari Blue Again Time Clock Riskulus Patchpocket Indian Salute Plight Bien Fait Boy Valet Roustabout Chicstraw and others the American Derby result is of far greater importance than in any previous year since it was revived It was won last pear by Mr Khayyam one of the claimants for the threeyearold crown crownPRETENTIOUS PRETENTIOUS STABLES STABLESReflecting Reflecting the importance of Chicago racing a number of the stables at Wash ¬ ington Park are among the most pretentious arid well known in the country Attracted from practically all of the larger racing centers principally Kentucky Maryland and Texas they include the establishments of Warren Wright Col Edward R Bradley Otto H Lehmann William C Stroube Jack Howard FrankC Charles C Van Meter Mrs Frank C Mars W T Payne Patrick A and Richard JamesD J Nash Fred K A Burton James D Norris Albert Sabath R A Firestone Stuyvesant Peabody Joseph E Widener L M Severson Wood F Axton Bernard B Jones J Lowenstein F M Grabner W M Sachsenmaier Thomas C Worden J B Partridge Chappel Bros A Pelleteri A B Letellier C T Fisher C B Shaffer Mrs Silas B Mason and many others othersStake Stake and handicap candidates from the stables of C V Whitney Mrs Payne Whit ¬ ney A Gwynne Vanderbilt Mrs I D Sloane H P Headley J H Louchheim Mrs H C Phipps William Woodward A C Schwartz M L Schwartz George D Widener W Sharpe Kilmer Mrs John Hay Whitney and others are expected from the East for en ¬ gagements during the meeting meetingFavored Favored by delightful weather and a racing strip that could not be improved upon there is prospect of near recordbreak ¬ ing sport at the seasons unveiling tomorrow Winooka Australian champion and holder of several sprint records is slated to make the second start of his second American cam Continued on twentyfifth page
