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FRAIDY CAT VICTOR IN ARLINGTONS INAUGURAL f Thunderstorm Makes Track Sloppy for Running of Big Race Orientalist Second After Setting Exceptionally Fat Pace Count Morse Finishes Third Most Auspicious Opening in Years Big Attendance ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 28. Hal Price Headleys Fraid? Cat raced to a hard-earned victory in the ,000 added Inaugural Handicap, which featured the opening day program of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, where an enthusiastic gathering of approximately 10,000 persons welcomed back the sport to the fashionable Northwest Side racing plant. It was one of the biggest openings at Arlington Park in years, considering that the meeting was launched on a Monday, and the only jarring note was a downpour of near cloud-burst intensity which, however, fortunately lasted only a short time. Fraidy Cat, ridden by Jack Westrope and carrying 118 pounds, ran seven furlongs in the feature, through the sIoddv going, in the good time of 1:24, to be winner by a head and to earn ,570 for his Kentucky owner. Giv ing the Headley five-year-old sternest opposition was Mrs. Emil Denemarks good three-year-old Orientalist, which finished second after having shown the way to the final twenty yards,, while the Calumet Farms Count Morse, carrying top weight of 126 pounds and trying for his fifth straight stakes victory, finished third, a length and a half away. The Everglades Stables Deliberator, which was made second choice in the. betting to Count Morse, was fourth to complete the sprint, and then followed the winners stable-mate, Preeminent. The others to complete the field were Murph, Sir Emerson, Coulee-dam and Pompa. KURTSINGER FINED 00. Fraidy Cat probably was a little better than his head margin would indicate, for he was carried out in the run through the stretch by Orientalist, and for failing to keep the latter straight, his rider, Charley Kurt-singer, was fined 00 by the stewards. Fraidy Cat was close up and under slight restraint from the beginning. Going into the turn he improved his position and on the stretch turn launched his challenge. Orientalist swung wide into the stretch and the Headley starter moved up to him on the outside. Deliberator also challenged boldly about the same time, but he tired after his bid while Fraidy Cat stuck gamely to his task to wear down the Denemark performer in the last twenty yards. Count Morse was outrun for about three-eighths, but then gradually improved his position while saving ground. His impost, however, was too much for him under the circumstances and third was the best he could do. The others did not figure strongly in the running after the first quarter had been traversed. The winner, although not the favorite, received staunch support and paid 1.20 for in the mutuels. FREAKISH STORM. The storm, which broke just after the fourth race, unleashed itself almost without warning and, by a strange trick of nature, stopped just as abruptly after about fifteen minutes. During this period the rain fell literally in torrents, accompanied by thunder, lightning and a driving wind, sending spectators to cover in the upper sections, of the stand and the enclosures. Prior to the storm, weather conditions were most pleasant, although the sky was partly overcast. The track had been fast, but quickly changed to slop once the hard rain was definitely under way. Another shower of lighter intensity fell while the fifth was being run and stopped Continued on forty-third page. FRAIDY CAT VICTOR IN ARLINGTONS INAUGURAL Continued from first page. immediately, after which the sun once more broke through. The fifth race was the Barrington Purse, a mile event, and it fell to the Bomar Stables Classic candidate, Yellow Tulip which, under jockey Sid Hebert, made every post a winning one. The favored Military moved up strongly on the stretch turn to make his bid for major honors, but he was not quite equal to the assignment, having to be content with second money, a neck behind the Bomar representative and five lengths in front of Quincy, which finished third. Sir Midas was fourth, leading home Talked About and Good Catch, the only other starters. Talked About raced in closest pursuit of Yellow Tulips pace for about a half mile and then Military took up the fruitless chase. Quincy moved up from last place in the final quarter to be third with three lengths to spare over Sir Midas. The victory was the first of the year for the Bomar three-year-old which, however, had only been to the post four other times since January 1. C-NOTE IMPRESSES. C-Note, one of the Milky Way Farms seven eligibles for the Arlington Futurity and apparently a colt of much quality, scored his second victory in as many starts when he turned back a smart band of two-year-olds in the Park Ridge Purse, the fourth race, and one of the principal supporting events. Carrying Alfred Robertson to his second victory of the afternoon, the gray son of Royal Minstrel, a strongly backed public choice, took the lead early after a poor start, and never was headed thereafter. His winning margin was three lengths, Hermana being closest to him at the wire. Invincible took third money, two and a half lengths farther away, while Mar Le was best of the others. On Delivery had no chance here, being practically left at the post, although he was sent after the field. Bull Lea, another son of the already highly established stallion Bull Dog, made good in his second trip to the-post when he carried the devils r.ed and blue silks of the Calumet Farm to victory over -five and a half fur-, ..;.... .....,.., -.L longs in the first race. The colt, which was purchased out of the Saratoga sales as a yearling for 4,000, won by a length under jockey Irving Anderson, while following him past the line of finish were some other well regarded youngsters, though none of them had ever won a race. John One was closest to the Calumet youngster at the wire, while Mad Money, second choice in the betting to the winner, was third. VETERAN PRINCE PEST. The aged Prince Pest, now in his ninth year, scored his second victory in as many starts this year when he led home a band of platers over seven furlongs in the second event. The son of Prince of Umbria, owned by Mrs. J. M. Irwin and ridden by Alfred Robertson, was taken to the outside shortly after the break, and there he gradually improved his position. Turning into the stretch he moved to the pacemaker, Transfun, and, racing past her, withstood a bold challenge from Terpsichore to score by a little less than a length. Skalkahoe finished third, a half length behind Terpsichore, while Crout au Pot was fourth in the field of twelve. The favorite, Mibs, didnt fare well in the third event, principally through the incapable handling of apprentice Charles Calvin. Lutz and Carpenters Knee Action, a 10-to-l shot ridden by Bobby Dotter, was first to complete the mile and a furlong, while Mibs was second, Bullicioso third and Parity fourth. Mibs might have given a better account of herself, but she was poorly rated while setting the pace, and when Knee Action moved to her on the second turn, she was weakly handled, finishing on her own courage to take the place by a little more than a length and a quarter, and three lengths behind Knee Action. Because of the change in track conditions the eighth race, which had been carded as a mile and a sixteenth event on the turf, was staged as a mile contest on the main course. Turf and sports writers and radio sports commentators were guests of the Arlington Park Jockey Club at a luncheon in the clubhouse Sunday afternoon. They viewed a demonstration of the "lightning eye" finish camera and inspected the plant. Trainer Dan Stewart will be in charge of six horses racing under the international colors of Joseph E. Widener, vice-chairman of The Jockey Club and head of Belmont Park and Hialeah Park. The Widener string will campaign throughput the meeting. Starter Roy Dickerson will conduct schooling from the barrier in the seven furlongs chute at Arlington Park each morning from 6 to 8 oclock.
