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ARLINGTON DOWNS , MEETING OPENS THURSDAY ; 60 TEXAS POPULAR TRACK Practically Ready for Thirty-Three Days of High Class Racing. New Totalizator and Remade Racing Strip Among Innovations and Improvements. ARLINGTON. Texas, Oct. 19. With barns rapidly filling to overflowing with the nations best thoroughbreds, famous owners, trainers and jockeys already on the ground or en route, every part of the gigantic plant redecorated and freshly painted, shrubbery flashing brilliantly in the Texas sun and the whole official family on its collective toes for what promises to be the finest meeting ever staged in the Southwest, all is in readiness for the start of the Texas Jockey Clubs fall meeting of thirty-three racingdays, next Thursday, October 22. And, for the thirty-three days following the opening day ceremonies, Arlington Downs will be right in the center of the turf spotlight. Introduction of the new totalizator, said to be the latest and costliest machine of its kind in America, marks another step forward for the Waggoner track and the recently finished mile and a sixteenth track is yet another feature of interest to race en-thusiasts. GENEROUS OUTLAY. The Texas Jockey Clubs- fall meeting calls for a liberal distribution of purses, more than 00,000 headlining the 5,000 Waggoner Memorial Handicap, the 1936 renewal of the Southwest Breeders Futurity and eight stakes listed as features of the meeting. There will be eight races daily, post time at 2:15 and numerous overnight L handicaps of ,000 and ,200. Patrons will find many innovations in addition to the totalizator and new track, all ready at the palatial race track. E. Paul and Guy L. Waggoner, owners of Arlington Downs, together with general manager Trav Daniel, have left nothing undone to make the fall meeting; stand out Daniel and Paul Waggoner visited eastern tracks during the summer months, contacting many of the leading stables, stables which have never raced away from the metropolitan tracks before and which are visiting Texas for the first time. Engagement of judge Sam C. Nuckols as steward in charge of racing and judge Wlliam H. Shelley as associate steward and the return of Charles J. McLennan as racing secretary, gives the Texas Jockey Club the finest administration it has had since its inception. Both Nuckols .and Shelley are affiliated with Churchill Downs and other big racing organizations, and their association with Arlington Downs is in keeping with the intention of the Waggoner brothers to put racing at Arlington Downs in capable hands. LIST OF OFFICIALS. Larry Boganschutz, newly named placing judge, succeeding Charles F. Henry; Charles Kenney and Sidney S. Brown, are back at their places in the official family, and Emmet Hileman and Frank Otis will share patrol judge duties, with one occupying the patrol tower at the head of the back stretch during all races and one on duty in the paddock from the first to last race. A re-ceivlng barn, which will be used for saliva Continued on twenty-third page. ARLINGTON DOWNS MEETING OPENS THURSDAY Continued from first page. tests, will be under the supervision of Dr. W. G. Brock, track veterinarian, and track superintendent Jack Hayes is official timer for all events. With many of the countrys outstanding horses, headed by E. F. Seagrams Stand Pat; Tempestuous, Rosselli and Sablin, and A. A. "Bert" Baronis Top Row and Golden-eye, named for the Waggoner Memorial, this feature properly takes its place as the leading winter classic in the Southwest, and advance indications arc that a large field of handicap stars will line up before Starter Roy "Boots" Dickerson on November 14, when the 5,000 stake will be contested over the nine furlongs route. SOUTHWEST BREEDERS FUTURITY. Sharing interest with the Waggoner Handicap, at least in the eyes of Texas turf enthusiasts, is the Southwest Breeders Futurity, which this year has twenty-eight ellgiblcs yet in the field. Of this number, representing 1934 foals bred and owned by Texas and Oklahoma breeders, it is predicted that more than a dozen will be on hand for the purse, which this year will bo raised considerably. Heelfly, Gin Daisy and Phalasan probably will carry the Waggoner colors in this event. The whole infield at Arlington Downs has been planted in oats and the lake in midfield has been beautified. Parking space has been leveled and graded as have the walks and roads, and the changing of the clubhouse interior and exteriors affords patrons more room. An aproximate odds board under the clubhouse is an added feature.
