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74 LASSIE ELIGIBLES REMAIN Best of Age and Sex on List After the Third Payment. Gross "Value of Arlington Prize Will Be 4,900 Providing Fifteen Go to the Post. Seventy-four two-year-old fillies, the cream of their age and sex in American racing, have been nominated for the eleventh running of the 0,000 added Arlington Lassie Stakes, with the payment of final fees on May 15, announced Otto W. Lehmann, president of the Arlington Park Jockey Club. This, shows an advance of two nominations over 1938. If fifteen start in the race Saturday, July 15, the gross purse will be 4,900 and the net to the winner 3,820, a notable increase over last year. A total of ,500 will be distributed among the owners of the second, third and fourth horses, while the breeders of the first, second and third horses will receive 50, 00 and 50, respectively. As the Midwests most important test for two-year-old fillies, the Lassie Stakes has a colorful history. Divisional leaders stud its list of heroines, Apogee in 1936 and In-scoelda in 1938 later winning the divisional awards as the best juvenile misses of their respective seasons in the Best Horses of the Year Poll of the nations leading turf and sports writers. LASSIE WINNERS. The full list of Lassie winners is: 1929, Capture; 1930, Risque; 1931, Top Flight; 1932, Hilena; 1933, Mata Hari; 1934, Motto; 1935, Forever Yours; 1936, Apogee; 1937, Theen, and 1938, Inscoelda. With the Classic Stakes, Arlington Futurity and Lassie producing increases in nominations over last year, Arlington Park officials are looking optimistically towards the closing of the remaining five stakes on June 1. These five races, which round out the features of the thirty-day meeting running from June 26 to July 29, are the 0,000 added Stars and Stripes Handicap, the ,000 added Matron Handicap, the ,000 Arlington Handicap, the ,500 added Hyde Park Stakes and the ,500 added Inaugural Handicap. Nominations may be sent to the Arlington Park Jockey Club, postoffice box Q, Arlington Heights, 111.
