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ARLINGTON PARK READY Thirty-Day Meeting at Northwest Side Track Begins Monday. Rich Stakes and Overnight Entries Attract Cream of Thoroughbred Division of All Ages. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 25. Arlington Park is ready for the opening of its thirty-day meeting Monday. Its 1,000 acres of verdant prairie terrain present a masterpiece of cool, pastoral beauty and its appointments are the last word in modern efficiency and facility. Here in a setting of natural beauty characteristic of the pleasant Illinois countryside, a group of wealthy Chicago sportsmen stage thirty days of racing that brings the sport in the mid-west to a high point each year, A stupendous sum has been spent i. x to make i Arlington Park a great racing grounds. For eight years it has operated "for the sport," and this year again it follows that nonprofit tradition which pours back all earnings into improvements and purse, increases. Annually Arlington Park is the mecca of society and celebrities, the testing ground of great horses and the countrys best stables, horsemen and jockeys. STRONG RIDING COLONY. Meeting the invasion of the crack eastern jockeys who will come to Arlington with their stables or for special stake engagements, will be the strongest riding colony that has graced midwestern racing in many years, reports Chris J. FitzGerald, Jr., clerk of scales at the ranking north side course. When Washington Park closes Saturday, the valets will pack and ship the tack of the following seasoned jockeys to Arlington: Charley Kurtsinger, who rode War Admiral; Alfred Robertson, developed under the Whitney banner and now riding for the Milky Way Stable; Lester Balaski, the Hertz rider who won the 1937 American Derby with King Ranchs Dawn Play; Irving Anderson, contract rider for Warren Wrights Calumet Stable; Bobby Dotter, sensation of the California winter campaign; Sammy Roberts, fighting now for the American leadership; Jack Westrope, who in 1933 led the American jockeys with a modern record score of 301 winners; Sidney Hebert, veteran light weight rider, formerly with Greentree and now with the Denemark stable; Leon "Buddy" Haas, Charley Landolt, Charley Corbett, H. Hauer and a score of . others. Continued on thirty-sixth page. ARLINGTONPARK READY Continued from first nage. Paul Ryan, leading rider at the Aurora and Washington Park meetings, sets the pace for the apprentice jockey colony heading for Arlington. "I want to make it three straight meetings in front, and I think I can round out my third session at Arlington," said Ryan. Among the other promising "bug boys" who will ride at Arlington are E. Phillips, Chuck Calvin, W. F. Ward and R. Morris. Charley Stevenson, champion rider of America in 1935, will come here from Chicago to ride for his employer, Clyde Van Dusen, the Dixiana trainer. From the smart riding colonies of the Atlantic seaboard are expected for Arlington stake engagements other nationally renowned jockeys such as Eddie Arcaro, Johnny Gilbert, Wayne Wright, "Sonny" Workman, Sammy Renick, Earl Steffen, Johnny Longden, Nick Wall, Silvio Coucci, Jimmy Stout and Hubert Le Blanc. While the leading jockeys of the country prepare for the big Arlington meeting, the railroad siding and highways bring an ever heavier stream of the nations best thoroughbreds to the north side course by horse, pullman and van. DIXIANA STABLE. A powerful division of twenty-two horses owned by Dixiana will be shipped in from Detroit by trainer Van Dusen Saturday, with the stable rider, Charley Stevenson, arriving Sunday. The advance guard of the large Bomar Stable division trainer Emmett Potts will race here got in yesterday, numbering six horses. Nine arrived by van from Washington Park to occupy the stalls allotted to the Nash Brothers Shandon Farm. Trainer Frank Gilpin has despatched nineteen of Mrs. Emil Denemarks stable, which was sensationally successful in Florida last winter, to Arlington Park. Twelve owned by the Woolford Farm and trained by B. A. Jones also got in yesterday. Among others getting in yesterday were eight for the Blue Ridge Farm, three for Clifford Helm, five for L. M. Severson, three for Al Horton, and six racing for Warren Wrights Calumet Farm.
