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ENTRIES FOR LASSIE STAKES With Twelve Starters Arlington Juvenile Race Will Gross 4,100. . Dixiana, Calumet Farm and Milky Way Farms Leading Nominators, Each With Five Named. With ninety-six remaining in it after the final nomination fee was paid in May, Ihe 1936 Lassie Stakes promises to be the richest of the eight runnings of this six furlongs special for two-year-old fillies at Arlington Park. If twelve start, as did last year, the Lassie will gross 4,100, as compared to the 3,120 when Forever Yours won it in 1935. Numerically, the leading nominators are Charles T. Fishers Dixiana, Warren Wrights Calumet Farm and Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Milky Way Farms. Each of these establishments named five. The Milky Way Farms Stable, which has swept like a cyclone through the juvenile set of both sexes at the current Hawthorne meeting, has named Sunset Girl, Mars Shield, Not Asleep, Miss Min and Talma Dee. Warren Wrights list sparkles with popular blood lines with two fillies by Sir Gal-lahad III., sire of Gallant Fox and grandsire of Omaha and Granville; two by the fashionable Bull Dog, and one by Haste, a successful sire in the service of J. E. Widener. Apogee, which won impressively for Hal Price Headley at Belmont and Rockingham Park, heads the quartet nominated by the Kentucky horseman, which also includes The Queen, Middle Brook and All Agog. Another notable entry is the Tranquillity Farms Challite, which blazed five furlongs in :59 to win the St. Clair Stakes at Detroit on June 6. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt has named two fillies, Swiftply and Cherry Orchard, which have raced impressively in the East. The former was a winner in Maryland and ran well in her New York engagements. Another which proved herself in the early juvenile racing in New York is Drawbridge, from the Wheatley Stable of Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps and her brother, Ogdcn Mills. For this stable trainer "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons also has named Devils Pace. Up from Texas came nominations of five fillies from the Waggoner Brothers plutocratic Three Ds Stock Farm. Among this quintet is the first foal of Pansy Walker, a mare which carried the Waggoner banner high in mid-western racing several years ago. This youngsters sire is Phalaros and is aptly named Pansys First. The three branches of the Whitneys, the first family of the American turf, are represented in the Lassie list. Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable has four named, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney three and John Hay Whitney one. Joseph Early Widener, vice-chairman of The Jockey Club and head of the Belmont and Hialcah Parks, has nominated Premiere and Magic Circle, the former by Sickle and the latter by Chance Shot, two fashionable Widener stallions. Four more fillies remain in the lists after the third and final fee was paid than in 1935. In this years Lassie 290 paid the first nomination fee of 0, 220 the second fee of 0 and ninety-six the third fee of 0. The association will add 0,000 as in 1935 and if twelve start, as in 1935, this will bring the gross value of the eight-year-old stake up to 4,100. Previous winners of the Lassie were Capture, 1929; Risque, 1930; Top Flight, 1931; Hilena, 1932; Mata Hari, 1933; Motto, 1934, and Forever Yours, 1935.
