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ARLINGTON CONDITION BOOKS First Issue Being Distributed to Horsemen Today by Officials. Two Stakes, Graded Handicap and Races Over Turf Included McLennan Visits Boston. Two stakes, graded handicaps and races over the turf course feature the first edition of the Arlington Park condition book, covering the programs from June 29 to July 9, inclusive, which will be distributed to horsemen Friday. Racing secretary Charles J. McLennan will personally distribute his first book in Boston and starter Roy Dickcrson will hand it out to horsemen in the New York sector while these officials are on missionary tours in the interest of five Arlington stakes closing Monday. Holding the salient positions during the first ten days of Chicagos most important meeting are the seventh running of the ,500 Inaugural Handicap, for three-year-olds, over seven furlongs, and the eighth running of the 0,000 Stars and Stripes Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, at a mile and one-eighth. The former will be run on opening day, Monday, June 29, and the Stars and Stripes will be the feature of the holiday card on July 4. Arlington Park is one of the three tracks in the United States which offers flat racing over the turf. In this first book five races over the mile grass course in the infield are listed and should provide colorful highlights of the cards on the three days each week they will be run. Racing secretary McLennan has liberally sprinkled graded handicap events throughout his book. These races will close on the Saturday prior to the race and weights will be posted two days before the running. As in the past, the Arlington Park officials have been generous in purse money. Eight thousand dollars a day will be given away in purses, exclusive of stakes. There are seven stakes calling for added money of 7,500 and in all more than 00,000 will be distributed to horsemen during the thirty days. The purses in claiming events will be judicially graded in order to give larger prizes to the better horses. Other items included in the McLennan book note that the preferred list will be in order and that horsemen entering claims must have started a horse at the meeting.
