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ARLINGTON STAKES Eight Features Scheduled, With an Estimated Gross of 85,000. Five Headliners Closing for Entries on June 1 — Classic Stakes to Be Run on July 22. Eight stakes, with a gross value estimated at 85,000 and added money of 6,000, will be the features of a brilliant Arlington Park meeting of thirty days, opening here on June 26, it was announced by Otto W. Lehmann, president of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, today. In announcing the conditions for the Arlington stakes, Lehmann set the closing date for nominations for five of them as Thursday, June 1. Three of the eight stakes — the Arlington Futurity, the Lassie Stakes and Classic Stakes — closed earlier. The progression of stake features will roll up in crescendo of importance from opening day to the final week of the meeting, when the 5,000 gross Classic Stakes, premier American mid-summer race for three-year-olds on July 22; the 0,000 gross Arlington Futurity, for two-year-olds, and the ,500 gross Arlington Handicap, for older horses, on July 29, will strike the climax. STARS NAMED. Highlighting the swank north side meeting will be the eleventh renewal of the Classic Stakes on July 22. The list of seventy-seven nominations holds the names of virtually every ranking three-year-old in America, including Technician, Challedon, Johnstown, Porters Mite, Eight Thirty, Benefactor, Ciencia, Inscoelda, Impound, Day Off and Sun Lover. Inaugurating "futurity" condi- Continued on thirty-ninth page. ARLINGTON STAKES Continued from first page. tions this year the Classic will be one of the most handsomely endowed races for three-year-olds in this country. Following is the full list of Arlington Park Stakes: Monday, June 26 — ,500 added Arlington Inaugural Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at seven furlongs. Saturday, July 1 — ,000 added Matron Handicap, for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and upward, at one mile. Tuesday, July 4— 0,000 added Stars and Stripes Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at one and one-eighth miles. I Saturday, July 8— ,500 Hyde Park Stakes, for two-year-olds, at five and a half furlongs. ARLINGTON LASSIE JULY 15. Saturday, July 15— 0,000 added Arlington Lassie Stakes, for two-year-old fillies, at six furlongs. Saturday, July 22— 0,000 added Classic Stakes, for three-year-olds, at a mile and a quarter. j Saturday, July 29— 0,000 added Arlington Futurity, for two-year-olds, at six furlongs; ,000 added Arlington Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at a mile and a quarter. As the headquarters of the Arlington Park Jockey Club were removed from downtown Chicago to the track on April 22, all nominations for the five stakes closing on June 1 are to be sent to: Arlington Park Jockey Club, Arlington Heights, HI. Stake blanks will be distributed to horsemen throughout the country within a few days, said Lehmann.
