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I ARLINGTON DOWNS STATISTICS Milky Way Farm Stable Wins Major Share of Prizes I Mars Shield Scores Second Consecutive Vic ¬ tory for Mrs Mars In Texas Derby Creech Leader The Milky Way Farm stable owned by Mrs Ethel V Mars and the leading money winning stable in the country last year du ¬ plicated its success at the 1936 spring meet ¬ ing at Arlington Downs by again carrying off the major share of the prize money offered by the Waggoner Brothers The Texas sportsmen gave away 186840 during the twentyeight days of racing and the Milky Way Farms share was 14375 most of which Mars Shield the filly contributed by winning the Texas Derby worth 510825 510825The The Arlington Downs meeting began on March 31 and ended May 1 Many people in Texas and others throughout the country regard it as probably the last meeting to be held at the palatial track Their views are the result of the determined fight being made by the reform element to have the legislature repeal the racing bill In the face of this determined opposition Arlington Downs staged its most successful meeting in several years M MMars Mars Shields triumph in the Texas De the outstanding race on the stake proa marked the second consecutive victoryj the Mars silks in the race The Fighter ning last year yearW W Cornay and S Roberts staged a nip and tuck fight for riding honors not many winners separating them at the windup Benny Creech saddled eleven winners and had no real opposition for training honors The percentage of winning favorites was 32 32Following Following are the owners whose horses won 2650 or more 1st 2nd 3rd Amt Milky Way Farm 6 6Creech 2 14375 Creech Mrs A M 10 10Three 2 7377 Three Ds Stock Farm 4 4Davison 5 5825 Davison C E 3 3Woolford 4 4615 Woolford Farm 7 7Allen 1 4400 Allen Mrs C E 4 4Wyse 3 4075 Wyse Mrs V 3 3King 1 4000 King Ranch 6 6Orr 3 3975 Orr F G 6 6Stroube 2 3850 Stroube W C 3 3Burns 1 3310 Burns Mrs R 0 5 5Turner 2 3175 Turner F Jr 5 5Mikel 3 3100 Mikel W A 4 4Marshall 8 2900 Marshall Mrs T 2 2Thompson 6 2750 Thompson E N 3 3Higdon 1 2675 Higdon Mrs R 0 4 Following are the horses which won 1425 or more each Horse HorseMars 1st 2nd 3rd Amt Mars Shield 1 0 10975 I Heelfly 1 Huskie Boy 3 Reaping 2 Trouper 2 Eastport 0 Boston Sound SoundMiss 1 Miss Ginbar 2 Bacon 2 Ashen 2 Color Bearer 3 Bon Centime 2 Gilbert Elston 2 Following are the jockeys who rode four or more winners each Jockey JockeyRoberts 1st 2nd 3rd Unp PC Roberts S 25 6 14 57 25 Cornay W 23 28 21 95 14 IVedder R L LHauer 21 14 17 75 17 Hauer H 18 20 19 92 12 Richard J 18 20 16 83 13 Neal B 13 8 10 48 16 I Johnson W L 13 16 8 50 15 j Adams J 8 5 10 58 10 Grill F 8 5 14 57 10 j Fallen M L 7 3 3 32 16 Robertson A 7 8 3 20 18 Ward W F 7 8 8 53 09 Haas L 6 4 9 22 15 Lake L 6 4 4 29 14 McDermott L LManifold 5 2 0 20 19 Manifold H 4 8 7 23 10 Smith G L 4 6 2 20 12 Thornton B 4 10 10 40 06 Albrecht H 4 0 2 27 17 Following are the trainers who saddled four or more winners each eachTrainer Trainer Wins Trainer Wins WinsCreech Creech B 11 Felkner G 4 4Jones Jones B A 7 Harrison M M 4 4Crump Crump W 6 Haughton E 4 4Orr Orr F G 6 Higdon R O 4 4McGarvey McGarvey R 5 Johnson W 4 4Preston Preston M 5 McCuan E 4 4Williams Williams J 5 Orr S 4 4Coward Coward R A 4 Allen C E 4 Following is the list of stakes that were weredecided decided decidedStake Stake Date Winner Value ValueInaugural Inaugural Handicap March 31 Bos ¬ ton Sound r 1465 1465Three Three Ds Handicap April 3 Empty Bottle 1100 1100Blue Blue Bonnet Handicap April 10 Reaping 1865 1865Texas Texas Derby April 17 Mars Shield 10825 10825Juvenile Juvenile Stakes April 21 Huskie Boy 1785 1785Dallas Dallas Handicap April 24 Miss Gin bar 1100 1100Fort Fort Worth Handicap May 1 Trouper 1450 1450The The percentage of winning favorites was below normal as shown in the subjoined tabulationJlumber tabulation Jlumber of days 28 28Number Number of races 225 Winning 225Winning favorites 73 Winning 73Winning second choices 53 Winning 53Winning outsiders 100 100Winners Winners at oddson 10 10Defeated Defeated at oddson Percentage of winning favorites 32 32One One dead heat was run
