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MORE OFFERS FOR CAVALCADEEQUIPOISE SPECIAL Col Winn Says Lincoln Fields Surely Will Make a Bid for it Plan to Hang Up Larger Purse Than Was Offered Before for Similar Contest Hawthorne Is Also Desirous of Securing the Event j With Robert A Smith who directs the racing affairs of Mrs Isabel Dodge Sloane whose silks have been phenomenally successful in no hurry to send the champion three yearold Cavalcade out of his division to meet Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys superlative Equipoise ruler of the handicap domain in a special match efforts to bring the two equine giants together may not bear fruit before fall This was indicated from east ern dispatches and information obtained in Chicago Wednesday The several racing asso ¬ ciations led by the Arlington Park Jockey Club and the New Hampshire Breeders Association which operates Rockingham Park seeking the match as a summer attraction were reported as still negotiat ¬ ing and hopeful of bringing the owners of the two thoroughbreds into an agreement Arlingtons proposal as made in New York Tuesday is according to trainer Smith con ¬ tingent upon Cavalcade adding the Arlington Classic his next engagement to his string of triumphs triumphsWhether Whether or not negotiations already launched are successful racing men regard the match as inevitable From Smiths state ¬ ments he would prefer to have the triple Derby winner fill his natural or three yearold engagements and if at the close of campaigning in his own division he is as good as at present a special for him may be arranged It is known that officials of several major tracks which operate later in the season are keenly interested in the outcome of launched efforts to match the two stars If the horses are not brought together for a summer meeting the late summer or fall tracks may be expected to indulge in some spirited bidding for the race raceDEEPLY DEEPLY INTERESTED INTERESTEDWhen When questioned as to whether he would be interested in such a race for Lincoln Fields the last of Chicagos major courses to operate Col Matt J Winn directing head of the Crete track said I should say so As a matter of fact I discussed such a race with Mrs Sloane and Mr Smith when they were at Washington Park for the DerbyThere American Derby There is no doubt that if Cavalcade holds his brilliant form and nothing happens to Equipoise a match between the two would be a great attraction Yes indeed Lincoln Fields will be bidding for it and willing to offer perhaps a larger purse than for any special match in the record of racing racingColonel Colonel Winn has staged a big majority of the special races of the past twenty years In collaboration with the last August Bel mont he brought off the big international series starring the remarkable French star Epinard He brought Zev and In Memoriam together at Churchill Downs and at Laurel staged matches between Hourless and Omar Khayyam and Eternal and Billy Kelly There is no question that the Epinard series closing in the most sensationally run mile and onequarter race in turf annals is with ¬ out parallel as an international turf event eventHawthorne Hawthorne which follows Arlington Park and precedes Lincoln Fields will not over ¬ look any chance to land the tilt of champions Officials of Chicagos south west side course are hopeful that if present negotiations fail the final Saturday September 1 of the meeting an earlier date would be acceptable
