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CHICAGO RACING CHANGES TO ARLINGTON PARK MONDAY OPENING DAY 75,000 Offered in Stakes and Purses During 30-Day Meeting. Sixteen Named for ,000 Added Inaugural Handicap No Purse Less Than ,100 for Any Race. t - t j ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June j 26. The most stirring and probably the J fastest sprint contest of the season is j in prospect when the ,000 added In- I augural Handicap is renewed Monday J as the opening dqy stake attraction at J Arlington Park. Sixteen of the coun- I trys fleetest handicap performers were j named overnight and the list of them J in post position order, along with their j weights and probable jockeys, follow: j PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. j 1 fPreeminent ..117 J 2 Murph 106 A. Robertson i 3 Deliberator ....120 A. Morgan 4 Count Morse... 126 1. Anderson J 5 JPrairie Dog... 104 6 Sir Emerson. . .115 ..R. Dotter j 7 Visigoth 107 j 8 Orientalist ...109 S. Hebert 9 tHigher Cloud. 107 I 10 Fraidy Cat 118 L. Balaski j 11 Couleedam 102 j 12 Finance 124... C. Kurtsinger ! 13 t Whopper 130 I 14 Pompa 114 15 Prince Torch.. 103 16 Quincy 106 J. Westrope I fH. P. Headley entry. JMrs. E. Dene-I mark entry. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 26. On Monday major track racing in the Chicago area, now in full stride after a languid beginning, moves into its most important meeting with the opening of the Arlington i Park Jockey Clubs fashionable Arlington 1 Park course near here. With an extraordi- J narily attractive program featuring the sev- I enth renewal of the Inaugural Handicap, which will engage a high percentage of the countryb outstanding sprinters, ready for presentation, the opening is expected to prove one of the most successful, as well as important, during the glamorous history of this picturesque course. INTEREST INCREASING. Washington Park, which closed today, having brought its thirty-day season to an end with a good period of profitable business following a slow start which, incidentally, has been characteristic of the early season hereabouts. Arlington Park opens with interest running high and its operators, though they do not conduct racing for profit, may confidently anticipate maximum patronage from the very beginning of its five-week session. During the thirty days the Arlington Park Jockey Club will distribute approximately 75,000 among horsemen, and of this amount 02,500 represents the aggregate added value of eight stakes on the program In added value, the Classic, for three-year-olds, is the richest with its endowment of 0,000, but the Arlington Futurity, for two-year-olds, will carry the largest gross prize, Continued on thirty-ninth page. CHICAGO RAfifoG SCENE 1 CHANGES TO ARLINGTON 1 Continued from first page. though the added money is 0,000 less. Other of the richer features include the 0,000 added Arlington Handicap, for three- t year-olds and upward, and the 0,000 added Stars and Stripes Handicap, also for three- v year-olds and upward, and the 0,000 added u Arlington Lassie Stakes, for juvenile fillies. L.IST OF STAKES. The complete roster of stakes, with salient details and in the order of their running s follow: j- Arlington Inaugural Handicap, ,000 added; F for three-year-olds and upward, seven fur- longs, Monday, June 28. Arlington Matron Handicap, ,000 added; j for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and i upward, one mile, Saturday, July 3. t Stars and Stripes Handicap, 0,000 added; for three-year-olds and upward, one mile 1 and a furlong, Monday, July 5. Hyde Park Stakes, ,500 added; for two- year-olds, five and a half furlongs, Satur- t day, July 10. Arlington Lassie Stakes, 0,000 added; for J two-year-old fillies, six furlongs, Saturday, July 17. j Classic, 0,000 added; for three-year-olds, i one mile and a quarter, Saturday, July 24. r Arlington "Handicap, 0,000 added; for three- j year-olds and upward, one mile and a quar- j ter, Saturday, July 31. Arlington Futurity, 0,000 added; for two-year-olds, six furlongs, Saturday, July 31. FAST SPRINTERS. J In Mondays stellar event, Arlington will present a majority of the nations leading speedsters. Sixteen have accepted for the stake, which will be having its eighth run- ning since 1930, and while the top weighted Whopper, which drew an impost of 130 i pounds, is not likely to start, the sprint will engage such other swift moving performers j as Count Morse, veteran ace of Warren Wrights Calumet Farm stable; Mrs. Emil j Denemarks Finance, Everglades Stables J Deliberator, E. F. Woodwards Sir Emerson, i along with others, including H. P. Headleys Fraidy Cat and Preeminent, stable compan- : ions of the renowned Whopper. i Trying for his fifth straight stakes sue- cess, Count Morse will shoulder 126 pounds, 1 two more than Finance, which, after starring 1 here last summer, went on to prove one of 1 the outstanding horses in winter racing. De- 1 liberator, recent winner of the Quickstep ! Handicap at Latonia, will try for victory under 120 pounds, while Fraidy Cat will take up 118, Preeminent 117, Sir Emerson 115, and the others lighter burdens, scaling down 1 to 102 pounds for Couleedam. ; The others entered with assigned weights : are Qrientalist, 109; Higher Cloud, 107; Visi- : goth, 107; Quincy, 106; Murph, 106; Prairie ; Dog, 104; Pompa, 104, and Prince Torch, 103. ; IN FINE FORM. All of the candidates are reported in their finest form and a fast and stirring contest ; is sure to ensue when they get together over the seven furlongs. The race last year was ; won by Where Away. Other winners included Some Pomp, Gold Step, Indian Runner twice and Silverdale twice. Other features are the Barrington Purse, for three-year-olds, over the Hertz course; the North Gate, in which the field will meet at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf, and the Park Ridge, for two-year-olds and at five ! furlongs. These and other of the eight events ; comprise without question the most attractive . opening day program in the history of the track. As the Inaugural is bringing to the post a high number of the leading sprinters, so will other of the richer races attract the best of the various other divisions. In the point of actual value, the Futurity, if as many as fifteen of the 102 eligibles reach the starting post, will have a gross monetary value of 2,190, while the Classic, with ten acceptors from among the fifty-six qualified entries, will carry 6,400 in prize money. These and other of the principal races, together with a ,100 minimum for overnight races, many of which type will carry larger purses, provide thirty golden days for horsemen at- the local track. PROMINENT OWNERS. Here to vie for the gold and glory of Arlingtons ambitious schedule of turf events are the thoroughbreds of such prominent stables as those oiMrs. John Hertz, Warren Wright, Chas. T. Fisher, Hal Price Headley, Emerson F. Woodward, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, Morris Vehpn, Mrs. William H. Furst, M. L. Emerich, Patrick A. and Richard J. Nash, Joseph E. Widener, Mrs. P. A. B. Widener, Herbert M. Woolf, Cary T. Grayson, F. A. Burton, Mrs. Roy Carruthers, C. A. Bohn, P. A. Markey, Mrs. Emil Denemark, Leo J. Marks, Mrs. A. M. Creech, C. E. Davison, A. C. Ernst, H. C. Hatch, N. L. Naylor and many others. In addition to these and others to participate in the entire meeting representatives from other prominently known establishments will come here for their stakes engagements and these may include horses owned by Samuel D. Riddle, C. V. Whitney, Mrs. Fay- Whitney, John Hay Whitney, A. G. Vanuerbilt, Maxwell Howard, E. R. Bradley, J. W. Parrish, W. S. Kilmer, Robert J. .Kleberg, Jr., E. Paul and Guy L. Waggoner, William Woodward, Marshall Field, Mrs. H. C. Phipps, E. Dale Shaffer and Mrs. Walter OHara. EXPECT WAR ADMIRAL. Into the Classic the Arlington Park Jockey Club hopes to entice the three-year-old champion, War Admiral, winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and the Belmont, together with such other foremost ones in that division as Pompoon, Dawn Play, Case Ace, Dellor, Eagle Pass, Gerald, Over the Top, Albubble, Orientalist, Brooklyn, Burning Star and Flying Scot. The Stars and Stripes and Arlington Handicaps are expected to bring together the ranking older stars and with every good juvenile eligible for the Lassie Stakes and Arlington Futurity, these events will be among the finest to be run anywhere during the year. As for the past several seasons, Arlington Park programs will consist of eight races daily with distinct stress on distance events as Arlington inaugurates a new policy of special awards to trainers who saddle winners of such events. On week days racing secretary Charles J. McLennan will draw on better class horses for the principal races, at least one of which will be worth ,500 daily. Encouraged by the interest which attended the best part of the Washington Park session, heads of the jockey club hope to hold not only one of the best meetings in Arlingtons history, but one of the finest and most successful in the country. Arlingtons society clientelle is evincing the same fervent enthusiasm as in seasons past and the same may be said of Chicagos turf regulars whose loyal support of local racing always is strongest during the Arlington season.
