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TODAY AT ARLINGTON DOWNS Electra and American Legion Day Program, Featured by ,000 Added Handicap. ARLINGTON, Texas, April 9. Thirteen sprinters, representing the best which could be mustered together here, were named for the ,000 added Blue Bonnet Handicap, which tops the Electra and American Legion Day program ,at Arlington Downs here tomorrow. All, of the eligibles accepted the weights for the six furlongs sprint, with Leo J. Marks Marooned, a double winner here, assigned the top burden of 123 pounds. It is three more pounds than he carried in his Inaugural Handicap triumph and far exceeds the poundage he carried when winning the Baker Hotel Purse last Thursday. Bien Fait, W. C. Stroubes sterling four-year-old, which made his 1935 debut in auspicious fashion, comes next with 121 pounds, and Prince Fox follows with 117 pounds. The latter champion handicap star of the Houston fall and spring seasons, was turned back by Marooned and Money Getter in the Baker Hotel Purse. Under 116 pounds and the next in line of weights, Wise Daughter, the only member of the fair sex to be named for the sprint, has a hard task before her. In her first and only effort here she was three parts of a length back of Marooned in the Inaugural Handicap. Money Getter and Quatre Bras H., the Three Ds Stock Farm eligibles, carry 113 pounds each, and Rock X. gets in at 112 pounds. The weights scale down to ninety-eight pounds, the minimum package alloted Whereaway, a Texas Derby eligible, and the only three-year-old in the field. Supporting the Blue Bonnet is the Dallas American Legion, which will be decided at one mile as the sixth race. A field of eight accepted the weights, with Quatre Bras U. carrying the top impost of 115 pounds. Like Onrush and Indian Salute, he also is eligible for the Blue Bonnet. Although a light drizzle of rain was falling when the entries closed this morning, large and well-matched fields were named for most of the races. With the assurance that a large delegation will be here from Electra, the old home of the late Colonel W. T. Waggoner, arid the American Legion Posts of Fort Worth and Dallas also sharing in the program, the largest week-day crowd of the meeting is expected to witness the sport. and
