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NOT AN EMPTY STABLE AT POPULAR HAWTHORNE Great Influx of Horses From AD Sections of Country Chicago-Owned Stables Larger and More Powerful Than in Many Years — All Preparations for Opening of West Side Course Virtually Completed ■ Horses by carloads and motor transport loads continued to arrive at Hawthorne, Wednesday, and, with few unfilled stalls after the days arrivals had been put away, the showy and extensive array of racing talent obtained for the thirty-one day season at the west side course is ready for Saturdays opening. Several more fashionable stables were included among those to arrive Wednesday, and three of them are listed among the largest and most formidable Chicago-owned establishments. They are Henry H. Cross Tranquillity Farm Stable, Mrs. Emil Denemarks powerful string and the Pech-Emerich-Pelleteri stable. They came from Churchill Downs, where each accounted for its share of honors and prize money during the meeting just closed. Each of these stables, like other of the many additional important ones awaiting Saturdays inaugural, is weJ fortified with stakes and handicap material, and their colors may be looked for in practically all of the more important races to be run during the meeting. The Tranquillity and Dene-mark strings embrace thirty head each and the Peck-Emerich-Pelleteri combination will open the 1936 Chicago campaign with twenty-eight. CHICAGO ESTABLISHMENTS. Other large establishments owned by Chi-cagoans and quartered at the west side course, scheduled to campaign on the Chicago circuit through the season include Warren Wrights Calumet Farm, P. A. and R. J. Nashs Shandon Farm, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Milky Way Farms, W. E. Schmidts Superior Stable and the stables of Jake Lowenstein, C. W. Bidwill, B. H. Lindheimer, Mrs. W. R. OToole, John Marsch, J. H. Manheimer, H. Herendeen, J. J. Coughlin, J. E. Hughes, R. T. Watts and Mrs. A. Sabath. Each year since the return of racing to the state the number of Chicago and Illinois owners has increased and this season will find resident turf patrons meeting the challenge of Kentucky and the East with a more extensive and potent representation than ever before. Some of the stronger out-of-state establishments here for Hawthornes meeting and likely to remain for the sessions at Arlington Park, Washington Park ■ and Lincoln Fields include those of E. R. I I Bradley, Howard Bruce, Kentmere Farm, I : Woodward and Barnhill, Waggoner Brothers, j i E. K. Bryson, A. C. Compton, Bomar Stable, i Mrs. R. R. Russell, J. A. Nix, J. E. Widener, Howard Oots and others. PLENTY OF THOROUGHBREDS. The Chicago season will start with a thoroughbred in every stall at Hawthorne and adjacent Sportsmans Park and an overflow of racing material at Arlington Park ; land Aurora. Hawthorne officials estimate j that close to 100 horses slated for racing at j their course will stable at Aurora during the thirty-one days of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Associations meeting. Several stables, headed by Norman W. Churchs establishment, are moving into Arlington Park i ! and will van their Hawthorne starters be-I j tween the two courses. The Church stable j [ is expected from California any day. It embraces several horses of stakes caliber and a number of flashy juveniles. Meanwhile preparations for the operation of Hawthorne advance apace and with all improvements, remodeling and refurnishing completed only the usual last-minute details await administration or disposition. While the late assignment of racing dates by the racing commission forced Hawthorne officials to work fast in putting the plant in order for the seasons first meeting, they have accomplished much in the short period of °?Jyc.f,cw weeks and Patrons will find the old Stickney track more uptodate brighter snd complete than ever before. Hawthorne this year will introduce the first photographic finish placings in Illinois, and the camera will be in operation on opening day. Fully installed, it was tested several days ago. Placing of horses when the camera findings are not used will be done from the same position as formerly, the idea of situating the placing judges in the cen-terfield at the finish having been discarded.
