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CONSIDER TEST RACE SERIES Hawthorne Planning Preliminaries for Juvenile Handicap — Expect Big Two-Year-Old Colony. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111.. July 20.— The certainty that there will be more two-year-olds of class at the thirty-day Hawthorne meeting, which opens July 30, than has been the case in other seasons, is responsible for what may be a week of delay in setting the purse, date and conditions for the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap. The race was to have been planned in detail at a meeting of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association, but because racing secretary Francis Dunnes survey of Hawthorne racing material indicated more juveniles will be on hand than had been expected, the action was delayed. A novel method of assembling the best possible field for the Hawthorne Juvenile is under consideration. It involves the running of three separate preliminary juvenile handicaps, with a bonus should the winner of any one of them later prove the winner of the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap. In other seasons — when the race has been won by such good youngsters as The Choctaw, Hygro, Head Play and Signalman, there has been no planned series of tests and handicaps preceding the running of this most important of Hawthornes two-year-old races. The reason has been that in recent years the two-year-old crop has been pretty well sifted out by the time the Hawthorne meeting began. This season even the most observant horseman cannot single out many good two-year-olds as yet. Most of them began racing so late — due to the late spring in Kentucky — that many trainers do not themselves know which of their youngsters are good horses and which are not. The consequence is that the sifting process will have to be carried forward at Hawthorne - 1 One plan Hawthorne officials are considering is the staging of a test stakes for two-year-old fillies, a test stakes for two-year-old colts and geldings, and a test stakes for Illinois-owned juveniles of either sex. Should the winner of any of these three test races win the Juvenile Handicap, a sizeable oonus would be added to the Juvenile Handicap.
