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CLASSIC RUN ON JULY 25 Arlington Parks Big Three-Year-Old Feature Again Has 0,000 Added. Seven Stakes, Totaling 7,500 in Added Money, Provided for 30-Day Meeting Opening June 29. — » Seven stakes, totaling 7,500 in added money, will feature the annual thirty-day meeting of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, president Otto W. Lehmann announced here : Monday. The northside course will open [ on Monday, June 29, and close on Saturday, August 1, with a double stakes program. The Classic, which almost annually determines the three-year-old championship, has been set for July 25, the fourth Satur-! day of the meeting. This great race again will be endowed with 0,000 and is designed to attract the winners of the Kentucky, Latonia, Detroit, Chicago and Illinois Derbys, the Belmont Stakes and Preakness. The complete stakes program follows: Monday, June 29 — Arlington Inaugural Handicap, ,500 added, for three-year-olds and upward; seven furlongs. Saturday, July 4 — Stars and Stripes Handicap, 0,000 added, for three-year-olds and upward; one and one-eighth miles. Saturday, July 11 — Hyde Park Stakes, ,000 added, for two-year-olds; five and one-half furlongs. Saturday, July 18 — Arlington Lassie Stakes, 0,000 added, for two-year-olds fillies; six furlongs. Saturday, July 25— The Classic, 0,000 added, for three-year-olds; one and one-quarter miles. Saturday, August 1 — Arlington Futurity, 0,000 added, for two-year-olds; six furlongs. Arlington Handicap, 0,000 added, Continued on thirtieth page. CLASSIC RUN ON JULY 25 Continued from first page. for three-year-olds and upward; one and one-quarter miles. Nominations for these stakes with the exception of the Futurity and Lassie will close on June 15, just two weeks before the meeting is to open. Final payments for the Futurity and Lassie, which closed last September 4, are due Friday, May 15. The Lassie is expected to gross nearly 0,000 and the Futurity value may reach 0,000 as the subscriptions to these important future events are greater than ever. In four of its seven previous runnings, the Classic has settled three-year-old supremacy, Omaha defeating the filly bid of Black Helen and Bloodroot last year while Cavalcade in 1934 demonstrated for the final time that he was the master of Discovery and the other good members of the division out that season. Blue Larkspur and Gallant Fox in Accounting for the 1929 and 1930 runnings of the mile and a quarter special became established as champions, the E. R. Brad-f ley colt taking the measure of Clyde Van Dusen and Rose of Sharon and the Belair Studs racer turning back the challenge of Gallant Knight. Other Classic winners were Mate, Gusto and Inlander, the first-named adding the event to his Preakness and American Derby victories. Gusto won the Classic after the American Derby to become the leading money-winning three-year-old of his season and Inlanders mud-running ability stood him in good stead in capturing the 1933 running.
