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STARS AND STRIPES HANDICAP TO INDIAN RUNNER —A a Largest Crowd of Current Arlington Park Meeting Sees Great Race • — Winner Registers Unique Double, Carrying Off Both Inaugural and Fourth of July Features of This and Last Year — Riskulus Back in Form • ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., July 4.— All doubts that D. A. Woods gelded Indiat Runner is one of the ranking members of the handicap division were dissolved this afternoon when the courageous and consistent son of Dis Done got up in the late strides tc win by a nose the sixth running of the 0,000 added Stars and Stripes Handicap at a mile and a furlong. He beat Mrs. Jack Howards Advising Anna, a filly which had always been close to ®the Hhe pace. pace. Finishing: Finishing stoutly stoutly outside outside and and a a — ®the Hhe pace. pace. Finishing: Finishing stoutly stoutly outside outside and and a a half length back of this battling pair was W. R. Coes Ladysman, top weight and short priced favorite, which was forced to race rather wide all the way. The Brookmead/ Stables three-year-old, Good Goods, was fourth, another length and a half back. The victory completed a unique double for Indian Runner. Both last year and this year he won both the Arlington Inaugural Handicap and the Stars and Stripes Handicap. The race was worth 0,760 to ownet D. A. Wood. His triumph today was probably the best race he has ever run. For one thing his time of 1:49% was closer to Sun Beaus track record of 1:49% than horses usually come. For another he shouldered 118 pounds, second only to the 120 assigned Ladysman, to beat a field of fourteen other horses that was as good a field as the stake ever mustered. NONE THE BEST OF IT. Finally he had none the best of the running, having been shuffled back on the inside coming around the far turn and being forced to make up the lost ground in the final quarter. Indian Runner was away with the leaders after the field of fifteen had been at the post five minutes and, as they rounded the first turn, he was fourth. Bicn Fait was in fiont, with Advising Anna second, ; Barn Swallow third, and Ladysman seventh. I Jockey Tipton went to the rail at once to save ground with Indian Runner, and kept him fourth as they raced in the same order down the back stretch, with Bien Fait drawing out to a lead of four lengths atfer a half mile had been run. Going into the far turn Indian Runner was forced to drop back on the inside as Ladysman and Evergold moved up on the outside. But he began to come on again at once, and when Bien Fait dropped oack coming out of the stretch turn and Advising [Anna moved up into the lead. Indian Run- 1 ner began to race up outside her. A furlong out he was lapped on the leader, with Ladysman closing stoutly outside him. Hard 1 ridden by jockey Al Tipton, Indian Runner gained slowly all through the final furlong and just got up in the last two strides for an advantage of a nose. GAY MONARCH BY LENGTH. The crowd, estimated at 25,000, was the largest of the Chicago season. Jockey Wayne Weight continued upon his victorious way in the Independence Handicap at six furlongs, which was the fourth race and secondary feature when he brought A. C. Schwartz Gay Monarch home the winner by a length over the Calumet Farms heavily backed Hadagal in a driving finish. The Corsicana Stables Blessed Event was third, back another length and a half. It was Wrights third win in as many races, Good Gamble in the second and Broad Meadows in the third having been the earlier victors. He had Gay Monarch away best of the field of six and was never headed. Hadagal, giving away weight to all the others, wa always second, following the early paca closely just a neck in front of Pairl ypair. In the stretch run Pairbypair began to drop back behind Blessed Event, but Hadagal moved up courageously and closed well under punishment. The time of 1:10%, with a quarter in :23 and a half in :45%, was the fastest six furlongs of the meeting. Riskulus, the three-year-old which Norman W. Church counted upon to represent him in the major stakes, won his first race since Continued on twenty-sixth page. STARS AND STRIPES HANDICAP TAKEN BY INDIAN RUNNER Continued from first age. last winter when he closed well on the outside to beat the Audley Farms Signalman a length in the Columbia Purse, at a mile. Signalman had a nose the better of H. W. Maxwells Growler for second. The race was run in 1:37. The race was Signalmans 1934 debut and he indicated that the opinion which has tabbed him as strictly a sprinter may be wrong. Fractious at the post, he unseated jockey Don Meade and ran away more than two miles. The other riders in the field of seven were allowed to dismount while Signalman was being overtaken and while he was led back to the paddock to permit the substitution of W. D. Wright for Meade. After a fifteen-minute delay, Signalman sprinted to the front and made the pace under urging from the second place Con-tessa. Riskulus was slow to begin, but began moving up on the outside on the stretch turn. He had to be placed under punishment to overtake Signalman in the final sixteenth. Three stitches were taken above Don Meades eye after his mishap on Signalman. He cancelled his stake mount on E. R. Bradleys Barn Swallow, C. Landolt replacing him. S. M. Looks two-year-old filly Hathy, somewhat unfortunate in the Hyde Park Stakes Saturday, was dropped down into a cheaper field of six other juveniles in the first race, at five and one-half furlongs. She led all the way under urging and although not gaining at the end managed to hold a ! lead of a half length to the finish. K. E. Hitts Barcarolle was always second and had a final margin of a length and a half . over the third place Polly Rita, which raced for D. B. Midkiff. The time over the fast track was 1 :05%. A field of six maiden two-year-old fillies, all eligibles for Saturdays Lassie Stakes, was left in the second race, after the late scratching of Baby Sis and Rapere, but none of them offered much competition to Morton L. Schwartz* chestnut, Good Gamble. Breaking forwardly, she led all the way to beat Norman Churchs Toro Nancy easily by four lengths in a race run in 1:05%. Mrs. John D. Hertz* Royal Duchess, in front momentarily at the start, came again on the inside i through the late stretch to be another length back for third. ! . i The victory qualified Good Gamble as a Lassie contender, for she was never threatened and won in hand. The veteran Broad Meadows, racing for Jones and George, got up late under punishment to win by three-quarters of a length the third race at six furlongs, but he had jockey W. D. Wright to thank for the victory. Made the favorite in the field of seven. Broad Meadows was away so slowly he was not a factor until he moved up on the outside coming into the stretch. By that time the Allen and Baxter racer, Siskin, had passed the pacemaking Pryor and assumed the lead, but the inexperienced Jim Henry on Siskin was no match for Wright in the drive through the stretch, and when he failed in the drive Siskin finished second. George Ogles Some Knight, closing on the outside, was another length and a half back for third.
