Twenty-Five In Arlington Inaugural Handicap: Thirty-Day Meeting Begins Today at Magnificent Northwest Side Track.; Championships of All Divisions May Be Settled in Many Rich Stake Races on Schedule--Leading Stables of Country Competing., Daily Racing Form, 1934-06-25

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TWENTYFIVE IN ARLINGTON INAUGURAL HANDICAP ThirtyDay Meeting Begins Today at Magnificent Northwest Side Track I IChampionships Championships of All Divisions May Be Settled in Many Rich Stake Races on Schedule Lead ¬ ing Stables of Country Competing Arlington Park Chicagos magnificent 4000000 race course opens its gates Monday for its annual thirtyday meeting which promises to bring together the great stables horses and jockeys of East and West in larger numbers than ever before When the Arlington meeting ends on July 28 there should be established Americas championship thoroughbred of all ages the undisputed titleholder of the threeyearold division and the identity of many of the nations leading juveniles Bidding for the crown in the dis ¬ tancerunning division are Cornelius Whit ¬ neys brilliant veteran Equipoise William R Coes flashy Ladysman Wheatley Stables Dark Secret and the two outstanding con ¬ tenders for threeyearold supremacy Cav ¬ alcade and Peace Chance ChanceTwo Two 10000 handicaps the Stars and Stripes and Arlington have attracted the nomination of every worth while older horse and most of the leading threeyearolds Cavalcade triple Derby winner and Peace Chance sensational victor in the Belmont Stakes are being groomed to settle their issue in the Classic ClassicTwentyfive Twentyfive of the nations fastest horses were entered Saturday to compete in the Ar ¬ lington Inaugural Handicap feature of the opening program at Arlington Park here Monday With all starting the 2500 added event will have a gross value of 5560 5560Among Among the brilliant speedsters due to start is D A Woods Indian Runner win ¬ ner of the race last year and also of the Stars and Stripes Handicap He is to carry top weight of 118 pounds Second in the im ¬ posts is E R Bradleys fleet filly Barn Swallow whose assignment is 114 pounds poundsFive Five entries are in the Inaugural which is a dash of six furlongs Bien Fait Clarify and Croon representing the Corsicana Sta ¬ ble W C Stroubes Bright Shadow and Miss Patience entered by Audley Farm Patchpocket and Indian Runner running for G W Ogle and D A Woods Hadagal Sir Ten and Some Pomp for Calumet Farm and Contessa and Pairbypair for Mrs John Hertz HertzShould Should there be only a few scratches the field will be sent away by starter Roy Dick erson without using the Bahr starting gate Prospects are for the track to be in its best condition conditionNearly Nearly 100000 will be distributed among the owners of juveniles sharing in the purse distribution of the Hyde Park Stakes Ar ¬ lington Lassie Stakes and Arlington Futu ¬ rity and if the twoyearolds race as they did during previous meetings at the beauti ¬ ful north side course they will develop among them the outstanding candidates for the seasons championship championshipArlington Arlington Park whose policy ever has been sport on a nonprofitsharing basis is adding several innovations Noted for hav ¬ ing helped pioneer the Bahr starting ma ¬ chine and the allelectric mistakeproof totalizator the Arlington Park Jockey Club Continued on twentyninth page TWENTYFIVE IN ARLINGTON INAUGURAL HANDICAP Continued from first age this year is inaugurating racing over a grass course a beautiful thicklysodded track hav ¬ ing been laid out inside the main track Should racing over the turf be as successful as Arlington officials predict a daily race on the grass track will be scheduled for the latter half of the meeting meetingIn In attracting the horses of such leading stables as those of Mrs Isabel Dodge Sloane Mrs Payne Whitney Mrs Kathcrine Elkins Hitt Mrs John Hertz Mrs John Hay Whit ¬ ney Mrs Frank C Mars Bernard B Jones William Woodward E R Bradley Rogers Caldwell Warren Wright William R Coe Charles B Shaffer Frederick A Burton F M Grabner Hal Price Headley Willis Sharpe Kilmer Sylvester W Labrot John Marsch P A and R J Nash Charles Bacharach Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt C V Whitney and Joseph E Widener Arlington Park will add to its stakes and purses more money than is given away by any other American race track The total distribution will be in the neighborhood of 400000 400000The The schedule of stakes events with their probable values follows Monday June 25 Arlington inaugura Handicap 5000 for threeyearidld arid up ¬ ward at six furlongs Saturday June 30 Hyde Park Stakes 8000 for twoyearolds atfive and onehalf furlongs Wednesday July 4 Stars and Stripes Handicap 15000 for threeyearolds and upward at one mile and a furlong furlongSaturday Saturday July 7 Arlington Lassie Stakes 35000 for twoyearold fillies at six fur ¬ longs longsSaturday Saturday July 14 Classic 45000 for threeyearolds at one mile and a quarter Saturday quarterSaturday July 21 Arlington Handicap 15000 for threeyearolds and upward at one mile and a quarter r Saturday July 28 Ar ling pn Futurity 60000 for twoyearolds at six furlongs


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