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NO SHORTAGE OF STAYERS Hawthorne to Have Plenty of Route Runners for the Long Races on Its Schedule. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., July 18.— The fear of every racing secretary — when ha draws up the condition book" in advance of a new meeting — is that the races he designs to attract horses of the better grade at distances of more than a mile will not fill when the meeting gets under way. A preliminary survey of the stables that will be racing at Hawthorne when the thirty-day meeting gets under way on July 30 has convinced racing secretary Francis Dunne that there will be no shortage of stayers of good class. In writing the conditions for the frequent overnight handicaps that will serve as the backbone of the Hawthorne meeting he plans, therefore, to divide them about equally between sprints and distance races. If it proves as easy to carry out this policy as Dunnes survey has indicated, the 1934 Hawthorne meeting promises to develop more interesting racing than it has for several years. The fact that there is an over supply of sprinters of a class high enough to compete under handicap and allowance conditions has become something of a problem in recent seasons, and Hawthorne officials count the Cicero race course very fortunate to have drawn stables that will permit Hawthorne programs to reverse the general trend. The racing public has always made it plain that it prefers contests at distances greater than a mile, and with half of the feature events at Hawthorne over a route the sport at the west side course is certain to prove extremely popular. Despite the fact that such meetings as Saratoga, Narragansett and Detroit will be running during the Hawthorne meeting, the demand for stable accommodations ha3 already exceeded the supply. Using the barns at adjacent Sportsmans Park, Hawthorne can accommodate about 1,300 horses. By the time the strings of Illinois owners who wish j to race at home had been taken care of and the better stables now racing at Arlington Park had ben assigned accommodations, few stalls were left. At present applications from outside courses are being tabled. «
