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TURF RACES AT ARLINGTON Three Contests Each Week on Grass Course at Mammoth Northwest Side Track. Arlington Park is the only track west of. the Appalachians which offers flat, races over a turf course as- a feature of its mid-summer meeting. Races over grass courses in the infield are high lights of the Hialeah Park meeting in Miami and the Aqueduct meeting in . New York the latter course being constructed this summer inside of the regular steeplechase track. Three races will be run over the mile turf course each week, according to the plan outlined by secretary Charles J. McLennan. He has included five of them in the first edition of his condition book covering the first ten days of the thirty days meeting opening on June 29. Interest has been stirred in races on the grass by the successful invasion of the English turf course by William Woodwards Omaha this summer. The 1935 American three-year-old champion already has won two stakes on the turf in England and is now being pointed for the Ascot Gold Cup, his major engagement abroad. Turf course records at Arlington Park are: Big Beau, one mile in 1:39; Pot au Brooms and Motley, one and one-sixteenth miles in 1:45, and Even Up, one and one-eighth miles in 1:52. Horsemen find that the cushiony turf course is favorable to horses with weak underpinning, and many a bad legged veteran returns to his old time form over it. Mud-ders also go well on the turf, as their peculiar stride seems ideally adapted to this sort of footing.
