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REVIEW OF ILLINOIS RACING SEASON OF 1938 Total Distribution Slightly Larger Because of Long Fairmount Meeting Arlington Park Again Leader in Money Distributed Most Valuable Stakes and Daily Average Distribution Hawthorne and Aurora Lead in Winning Favorites Illinois and Chicago racing for the season of 1938 came to a close Monday October 31 at Sportsmans Park with Old Sol casting an autumnal smile upon the proceedings The final day of sport was staged under ideal conditions the little halfmiler at Cicero having enjoyed an almost unbroken run of Indian summer days that lured race fans out in everincreasing numbers as the final day of the season drew near Illinois rac ¬ ing during the past season was nothing to become excited about The sport was on a par with recent years and distribution in money prizes showed a slight gain over 1937 because meetingArlington of a longer Fairmount meeting Arlington Park had the outstanding meeting of the season but Sportsmans Park made the most money in ratio to the amount invested In both tracks Arlington was the leader in money given away in the number and value of stake races decided and also in attracting to Chicago the best horses to appear here during the year Only yearOnly four stake races were worth more than 10000 to the winner with the Arlington Futurity Illinois richest race Its winner was the unfortunate Thingumabob which was destroyed after an accident at Saratoga He v s the leading money winner of the state and one of the years most promising twoyearolds Arlington twoyearoldsArlington Park staged three of the four stake races with a value over 10000 the TTuturity Classic and Lassie Stakes and Hawthorne broke into the column with the Gold Cup won by Esposa Nedayr took the Classic and Inscoelda the Lassie and with Thingumabob on top of the money winners the others finished in that order behind him himSeabiscuit Seabiscuit appeared at Arlington in the Stars and Stripes Handicap and Mrs Kmil Denemarks War Minstrel took his measure over an offtrack He was on hand at Hawthorne for the Gold Cup but the footing being bad he did not appear in that race Chicago raceChicago may not have held the nations limelight in a racing way except on one or two occasions during the year but it certainly focused the attention of fans when Washington Park got rid of its bath of red ink by introducing the Patrons Handicapping Contest with prizes running as high as 5000 to the selectors of seven winners on Saturdays For the first time since the present management took over the track the Homewood course had a successful session It had no outstanding race or races but the handicappers contest drew big crowds into the grounds and resulted in big mutuel pools and a high daily average for the meeting I Continued on thirtieth page REVIEW OF ILLINOIS 1938 RACING SEASON Continued from fhst page P L Kelley with twentyeight winning races to his stables credit led the winning owners for the year with 32960 He was followed by the Woolford Farm stable with 32340 and C E Davlson with 32260 The Manhasset Stable and Mrs A M Creech v were also above the 30000 mark markKelley Kelley and Benny Creech tied for training honors by saddling thirtysix winners each j Alt Tarn was third with thirtytwo winners winnersR R Conley drove home eightythree winners to take the states riding title for 1938 his closest rival being Nunzlo Pariso who rode sixtynine winners Parisos percentage of 18 was much better than Conleys 15 however Kenneth McCombs topped both boys with mountsYale a percentage ot 21 with fiftynine winners from 275 mounts Yale oNine Idle Miss Crossbow II Gov Chandler Chance Ray Safe and Sound and Cardinalis were among the star horses which appeared during the year and won races while Stagehand Menow The Chief and others were here but failed to break into the win column columnFairmount Fairmount Parks first meeting had the highest percentage of winning favorites on any Illinois track operating During the first session it reached 38 per cent then during the second period dropped ten per cent to 28 Barring that first Fairmount meeting Hawthorne and Aurora were best in the state and highest of the Chicago tracks with 35 per cent favorite winners winnersHawthorne Hawthorne enjoying with Aurora the highest percentage of favorite winners despite a long run of bad footing was next to Arlington in money given away and daily average distribution Lincoln Fields was third on the daily average but raced only twentyfour days therefore its total distribution was lower than the other big tracks because of the abbreviated session Arlington Park only topped Sportsmans Park by one point 28 per cent to 27 to keep out of the cellar in the winning favorites column Total Money Distribution 1574615 Leading Money Winning Owner P L Kelley 33960 Leading Money Winning Horse Thingumabob 31110 Largest Dally Double Payoff 136820 Leading Trainers P L Kelley B Creech 36 Wins Leading Jockey R Conley 83 Wins Number of Racing Days 217 Number of Races Run 1716 Following are the figures showing the number of racing days at each Illinois track number of races run total distribution winning first choices etc 350 Track and Meeting Arlington 111Hawthorne Park 30 240 257 490 377270 68 62 111 10 28 Hawthorne 30 240 221 430 254365 PT Washington 111Lincoln Park 30 240 244 476 237390 77 53 111 Lincoln Fields 24 192 200 410 200730 60 45 87 Fairmount 87Fairmount 105Fairmount Park first meeting 31 243 184 346 139100 95 51 105 Fairmount Park second meeting 29 232 207 352 131700 66 42 124 A 4 172 168 320 320Sportsmans 126660 61 Sportsmans Park 19 152 220 334 107400 41 Totals and Grand Percentage 217 1716 Jl574615 551 372 799 NOTE There were three dead heats run at the first meeting at Fairmount Park One dead heat at Arlington Park Hawthorne and Washington Park Following are the figures for the past six years showing the amount distributed by the individual tracks and the yearly totals Organization 1933 1933Arlington 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 Arlington Park Jockey Club Inc 354505 354505Fairmount 351160 386160 378090 416450 J 377270 Fairmount Park Jockey Club 125500 125500Chicago 152700 75200 132000 270800 Chicago Business Mens Racing RacingAssociation Association Hawthorne 259680 259680Washington 270175 291300 210415 254365 Washington Park Jockey Club Inc 241640 241640Lincoln 314025 279780 323355 237390 Lincoln Fields Jockey Club Inc 187485 187485Fox 225465 192415 221275 200730 Fox Valley Jockey Club Inc Aurora 69905 90670 107160 106890 126660 National Jockey Club Sportsmans Park 136400 109380 98980 121300 107400 Grand Totals 1375115 1249875 1471075 1347725 1531685 1574615 1574615Following Following are the statistics showing number of racing days races run and dally average distribution for the past six years Racing Races RacesDays Days Run Daily Av Daily Av Daily Av Daily Av Daily Av Daily Av Track 1938 1938 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 Arlington 1938Arlington Park 30 240 1181683 1170533 1287200 1260300 1388167 1257567 Hawthorne 30 240 865600 667633 931638 939677 876729 847883 Lincoln 847883Lincoln Fields 24 192 624950 540000 901860 687197 737583 e36375 Washington e36375Washington Park 30 240 671222 757759 1012984 902516 1077850 791300 Sportsmans Park 19 152 426250 435714 496318 549889 505417 565263 565263Aurora Aurora 24 172 388361 438150 431762 564000 5 62579 s277so Fairmount Park 60 480 339189 299412 300800 425so6 4isi333 Totals and General Av217 1716 645594 593026 803822 858424 814726 7 256 29 Following are the ten leading moneywin ¬ ning horses of the season Horse 1st 2nd 3rd Amt Thingumabob 100 31110 Nedayr 100 27500 Inscoelda 300 18940 Esposa 100 10825 Cardinalis 443 10500 Chance Ray 354 10025 Gov Chandler ChandlerWar 100 9560 War Minstrel 100 9110 Leading Article 430 8150 Unselfish 6 5 2 8105 Following are the ten leading moneywin ¬ ning owners of the Illinois season Owner seasonOwner 1st 2nd 3rd AmL Kelley AmLKelley P L 28 33 25 32950 Woolford 32950Woolford Farm 16 8 9 32340 Davison 32340Davison C E 27 32 32 32260 Manhasset 32260Manhasset Stable 100 31110 Creech 31110Creech Mrs A M 33 25 18 30740 Calumet 30740Calumet Farm 16 19 11 28265 28265Kilmer Kilmer W S 1 0 0 27500 Milky 27500Milky Way Farm 12 10 4 27365 Le 27365Le Mar Stock Farm 19 23 20 24572 Denemark 24572Denemark Mrs E 11 6 10 20745 Following are the leading trainers in ini Illinois in 1938 1938Trainer WinsKelley Trainer Wins i Trainer Wins WinsBailee Kelley P L 36 36Creech Bailee J P 20 20Goose Creech B 36 36Tarn Goose R 18 18Sallee Tarn A G 32 32Davison Sallee W R 18 18Bagley Davison C E 26 26Hernandez Bagley 0 18 18Woodman Hernandez B 24 24Copenhaver Woodman A G18 G18Clelland Copenhaver L23 Clelland 0 17 17Wilson Haughton E 21 Wilson L J 17 Following are the ten leading jockeys in Illinois in 1938 Jockey Mts 1st 2nd 3rd Unp PO Conley POConley R 548 83 72 81 312 15 15Pariso Pariso N 389 69 54 51 215 18 18Wilson Wilson J G 436 67 59 56 254 15 15McCombs McCombs K275 59 36 34 146 21 Dew 21Dew E 281 54 45 32 150 19 19Fields Fields C 379 53 52 44 230 14 14Martin Martin T P 401 49 59 52 241 121 Ryan 121Ryan P 338 48 53 33 204 14 1 Robertson A 211 44 34 27 106 21 Anderson 21Anderson 1 245 41 34 36 134 17 Following are the most valuable stakes I run on the Illinois tracks in 1938 Stake Date Winner Value Arlington Futurity July 30 Thingum ¬ abob Arlington Park 31110 Classic Stakes July 23 Nedayr Ar ¬ lington Park Arlington Lassie Stakes July 16 In ¬ scoelda Arlington Park Hawthorne Gold Cup Sept 17 Esposa Hawthorne Illinois Derby May 28 Gov Chandler Aurora Stars and Stripes Handicap July 4 War Minstrel Arlington Park Arlington Matron Stakes July 2 Idle Miss Arlington Park Joliet Stakes June 11 Yale o Nine Lincoln Fields Stegcr Handicap June 4 Mountain Ridge Lincoln Fields Crete Handicap May 30 Crossbow II Lincoln Fields Lincoln Handicap June 18 Chance Ray Lincoln Fields Francis S Peabody Memorial Handi ¬ cap June 24 Safe and Sound Lin ¬ coln Fields Arlington Handicap July 30 Cardl inalis Arlington Park
