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SUPPLEMENTARY TO CLASSIC Late Three-Year-Old Developments Can Be Nominated. Owners Given Until April 15 to Name Prospective Stars for Arlington Parks Blch Stake. Supplementary entries for the 0,000 added Classic Stakes, the premier mid-summer race for three-year-olds, close ,bn Saturday, April 15, announced -Charles A. Mc-Culloch, chairman of the board of;- the Arlington Park Jockey Club, here today. Interest has increased in this important mile and a quarter test, which annually has drawn sportsdoms eyes to this city in July, because of the powerful array of divisional leaders already included in the list of seventy-three entries. The supplementary section of the Classic Stakes is designed to enable owners of late: three-year-old developments, or those who were waiting to see their horses in preliminary spring training, to get into the race for the 0,000 added money and the beautiful gold replica of the English Coronation Cup, most valuable intrinsically of American rac ing Liupmus. REPLICA OF CUP. The first Coronation Cup .replica, designed after the trophy won in England by Mrs. J. Hertz Reigh Count in 1929, was won by Willis Sharpe Kilmer through Nedayrs -victory last year and 14-carat solid gold replicas will be awarded to the Classics winning owner each year. Among those expected to be added to the already powerful list of the nations leading three-year-olds are William Ziegler, Jr.s El Chico and Our Mat; W. L. Branns triple Futurity winner, Challedon; the Saratoga Stables Volitant, and King Ranchs Ciencia, heroine of the 0,000 Santa Anita Derby. With 152 entries in the original nominations on July 15, 1938, and seventy-three remaining in after second payment of fees on November 15, the 1939 Classic Stakes, now on the first leg of its new "Futurity" conditions, should show a notable advance in value over recent renewals, said McCulloch. Fee for supplementary entry on April 15 is ,500. Previous winners of the Classic Stakes were: 1929, Blue Larkspur; 1930, Gallant Fox; 1931, Mate; 1932, Gusto; 1933; Inlander; 1934, Cavalcade; 1935, Omaha; 1936, Granville; 1937, Flying Scot, and 1938, Ned-ayr.
