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j I EEVEN IN DALLAS HANDICAP ,000 Added Race and Roman Soldiers Debut Texas Highlights. Sweeping Light Top Weight in Arlington Downs Saturday Feature Seven Oppose Sachsenmaier Star. ARLINGTON, Texas, April 5 The fourth running of the ,000 added Dallas Handicap and the Texas debut of Elwood Sachsen-maiers Roman Soldier, favorite for the 5,000 added Texas Derby, are the highlights of a brilliant program to be offered at the Texas Jockey Clubs magnificent Arlington Downs course here tomorrow afternoon. The Dallas Handicap, which will have its decision at the trying distance of a mile and an eighth, attracted a field of eleven, while seven, including Morris and Keatings Louisiana Derby winner, McCarthy, will oppose the Sachsenmaier three-year-old at a mile and a sixteenth for the Dallas Cotton-Exchange Purse. With the exception of Ted Clark, which failed to accept under his top impost of 120 pounds, the Dallas Handicap attracted the best of the distance handicap performers here. Sprinters will meet at the Waggoner course distance for Station WRR Handicap that will serve as the fourth race. Roman Soldier, which has not been under colors since his third to Black Helen and Mantagna in the Florida Derby, has been training famously for tomorrows engagement. However, he has a trying ordeal before him for the son of Cohort will shoulder the top impost of 123 pounds. This calls, upon him to concede from eight to seventeen pounds to his opponents. The -Sachsenmaier representative will have the services of Lester Balaski, who piloted Sachsenmaiers Plight to his 1934 Texas Derby score. Whether the lad will be astride the Cohort colt in his Texas Derby engagement depends upon his handling of the horse tomorrow. In addition to McCarthy, which was under colors here Wednesday, others named lor the Dallas Cotton Exchange Purse are Mrs. A. M. Creechs Hasty Glance, the daughter of Haste, which was the leading juvenile of the Texas fall season. Tomorrow she will carry 115 pounds, the same burden allotted McCarthy and Gallaclay. The latter is coupled with South Gallant, which gets in at 112 pounds. MUST CARRY 118 POUNDS. Sweeping Light, the Eskay Stables sterling horse which bowed to Our Count in the renewal of the Fort Worth Handicap last Saturday, will carry the top burden of 118 pounds for the Dallas Handicap. He will be conceding three pounds to Our Count and four pounds to Late Date, which led Quatre Bras II. to the finish of the Zacaweista Purse, Wednesday. However, by the scale, Late Date will shoulder the top impost. Chance Line, another winner during the past week, comes next with 110 pounds and the weights scale down to 92 pounds, the minimum burden allotted Jflay Hooky. A small field of seven was named for Station WRR Handicap, with the Three Ds Stock Farm Stables Money Getter, which was a fast-closing second to Marooned on Thursday, assigned the top burden of 113 pounds. Onrush, which will be making his Texas debut, comes next with 112 pounds and Lucky Child, a recent graduate from the maiden ranks, totes the feather of ninety-five pounds. Ten topnotch sprinting platers meet at the Waggoner course distance for the Medical Arts Flower Shop Purse, and third race, while six plater three-year-olds were named for the mile and seventy yards. - In the event a change in track conditions would cause a cancellation of one of the original races, racing secretary Charles J. McLennan has carded a substitute race. The weather man promises an ideal day for Dallas Day. The races are dedicated to Dallas organizations and, from all indications, the city will be well represented in the attendance. An exceptionally large list of reservations is on hand in the clubhouse and many more tables will be pressed into service to accommodate the expected overflow crowd. The field for the Dallas Handicap, in order of post positions, weights and probable jockeys, follows: DALLAS HANDICAP. PP. Horse. Wt Jockey. 1 Sweeping Light. . 118 J. Westrope. 2 Chance Line 110 J. King 3 tHit and Run. . 105 .L. Balaski 4 tSazerac 109 L. Balaski 5 Noahs Pride 103 C. Parvin 6 Late Date . .114. ... P. Keester 7 Garden Message.. 106 F. Munden 8 Rip Van Winkle. .108. H. Dabson 9 Glynson 96 S. Hebert 10 Play Hooky.. 92. F. A. Smith 11 Our Count ...115 H. Hughes fMisses T. and M. and A. B. Letellier entry.
