Arlington To Honor Admiral Grayson, Daily Racing Form, 1939-05-06

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I "ARLINGTON TO HONOR i | ADMIRAL GRAYSON j *■ Arlington Park Jockey Club will honor the memory of the late Admiral Cary T. Grayson, personal physician to President Wood-row Wilson and noted breeder, during the thirty-day meeting here in July. A solid gold replica of the historic Coronation Cup won in England by Mrs. John Hertz Reigh Count in 1929 will be named the "Cary T. Grayson Memorial Cup" and will be presented to the breeder of the winner of the Arlington Futurity, most important mid-west race for two-year-olds, to be run on July 29. "Admiral Grayson was a stanch pillar of the American turf and particularly his good offices helped Arlington Park Jockey Club during its formative years," declared Otto W. Lehmann, president of the ranking Chicago racing association. Before his death in 1938 the late Admiral Grayson was American racings first friend in the nations capital, a leading breeder and raced his stable under his royal purple and white silks.


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