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i CATERING TO ALL CLASSES Sprinters Will Open and Stayers Will Close Arlington Meeting. Inaugural Handicap Over Seven Furlongs — Arlington Handicap Mile and a Quarter Stakes Close Thursday, June 1. Sprint stars will open and route runners close the thirty days Arlington Park meeting, which will be sent under way here on Monday, June 26. The sprinters will be tested over seven furlongs in the ,500 added Inaugural Handicap on opening day, and distance runners will be asked to race a mile and a quarter in the ,000 added Arlington Handicap, a companion feature to the 0,000 added Arlington Futurity on July 29, the final day. Nominations for the Inaugural and Arlington Handicaps, both for three-year-olds and upward, will close on Thursday, June 1. After failing to win the Stars and Stripes Handicap in 1929 and 1930, Sun Beau, the worlds greatest money winner, redeemed himself in the third invasion of the North Side course by winning the Arlington Handicap in 1931. MISSTEP WON. Misstep turned back the redoubtable Display in the first running of the Arlington in 1929, but six years later, Displays best son, Discovery, came out to win the race. In 1933 Plucky Play snatched victory from Equipoise, but the Whitney champion returned the next year to redeem himself. Arlington Park officials expect that the Inaugural Handicap will attract the best sprinters in the Middle West to oppose the speedy horses coming from the East for this important July meeting. The Arlington Handicap helps to round out the attractiveness of the final two weeks of the meeting. Horsemen planning to ship to Arlington will find opportunities for the best in their stables in all divisions with the 0,000 added. Classic Stakes for three-year-olds on Saturday, July 22, the: 0,000 added Futurity for two-year-olds and the 0,000 added Arlington Handicap for older horses on Saturday, July 29. Nominations for the Inaugural, Arlington, Hyde Park Stakes, Matron Handicap and Stars and Stripes Handicap, all closing June 1, may be sent to the Arlington Park Jockey Club, P. O. Box Q, Arlington Heights, 111.
