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y ] I i ! ! I - I j t f 1 s, :s in n r n r- ie a a a a .n !£ ie r_ in in ,n st 5r „ Id the ld t j£ a . last • ■ at of of VALUABLE RACING TROPHIES Arlingtons Three Gold Cups Greatly Admired and Coveted Turf Prizes. Awarded to Owners of Winners of Classic and Arlington Futurity, Also Breeder of Last-Mentioned Event. Arlington Parks three gold cups form the most valuable set of racing trophies in the sport, declared John Hertz, chairman of the Arlington Park executive board, which is preparing the big north side racing grounds for the opening of its thirty-day meeting on June 26. "I do not know of any meeting in Europe or America which gives away prizes of this value to horsemen or breeders," Hertz said, "And at Arlington Park we will have racing the high caliber of owners of stables who generally value more those trophies with historic background and designed by master goldsmiths than the purses that accompany the cups." Hertz referred to the three 14-carat gold cups which are given annually in permanent possession to the winning owners of the I Classic Stakes and Arlington Futurity and the breeder of the winner of the Arlington i Futurity. Largest of the three trophies is the Classic b Gold Cup, next is the prize to the owner of f the Futurity winner and the third is the - Cary T. Grayson Memorial to the Futurity t winners breeder. All are exact replicas of the ornately de-ie signed Coronation Cup won by Reigh Count in England in 1929. Hertz said that the Classic Cup was the most costly gold trophy f in American racing and the Grayson Memorial is the most costly cup given to breed-Id ers in this country. The three form the most [ intrinsically valuable cups given at any turf f | i meeting in the world, he said. j The three gold cups will be placed on dis- ¥ I I play in a Chicago downtown store on June „ I 20 and will remain there in public view un- til the Classic is run to decide the American championship of the three-year-olds at Ar- lington Park on July 22 and the Futurity running brings the meeting to a close on n July 29.
