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ARLINGTON INVITES PUBUC FOR SIGHTSEEING WEEK « Mammoth Northwest Side Plant to Be Thrown Open to Visitors » Ladies to Be Guests of Arlington Park Jockey Club on Opening Day, Monday, June 26 — Big Influx of 4 Racing Stars — Expect Banner Meeting ♦ Arlington Park, immaculate in a new 40,000 dress, awaits thn opening of the thirty-day meeting, which annually climaxes the mid-west racing campaign here, now just nine days away. Throughout this final week of preparation for the inaugural on Monday, June 26, the gate of the great 1,000-acre plant will be thrown open to visitors, eager to view the re-beautified track. Until Saturday the gates have been closed to permit the improvement program to be rushed to completion but this week will be "sightseeing-week" and hundreds of turf pilgrims are expected to motor to the North Side picture plant from Chicago and Illinois, and lower Wisconsin points. Meanwhile, the leading stables of East and West are — •« dispatching dispatching fast fast flying flying squadrons squadrons to to dispatching dispatching fast fast flying flying squadrons squadrons to to Arlington Park to fight out the battles of the eight handsomely endowed stakes that stud the thirty-day meeting. The influx of thoroughbred racing stars started last week, will speed up during tha next nine days until a capacity horse colony of 1,200 is bedded down in the modern, refurnished stable blocks. RICH CLASSIC STAKES. Most important of Arlingtons galaxy of stakes will be the 0,000 gross Classic Stakes on July 22 and the 5,000 gross Arlington Futurity on July 29, closing day. Immediately before patrons and horsemen is the Inaugural Handicap, seven furlongs, opening-day feature on June 26, which is expected to attract the top-flight sprinters of the season. Fifty-four sprint stars have been nominated for this opening stake and it is likely that a large field of fifteen or more will face starter Roy Dickerson at the barrier. Capping the plan to display to sight-seeing visitors the beauties of Arlington Park during the week preceding the opening, the management has gone a step farther to invite the women patrons to be their guests on Inaugural Day, June 26. On that day, women patrons will be admitted free to the grounds upon payment of state and federal taxes. This is not a "ladies day" in the general sense of the word, as it will be the only day on which this gate exemption will be in force. Arlington officials believe that it will be the medium of showing the beautified course to many of the fair sex who have, hitherto, not been regular racing patrons. COURSE OF CHAMPIONS. As in other years, Arlington Park promises to be truly the "Course of Champions." I Studding the history of its major stake races are such illustrious names as Equipoise, Discovery, Sun Beau, Blue Larkspur, Cavalcade, Gallant Fox, Twenty Grand, Seabiscuit, Omaha, Granville and many others. Standing out among the 1939 Arlington racing colony will be such princes and pre- Continued on thirty-fifth page. , | , | , ■ i . , * 1 ; ARLINGTON INVITES PUBLIC FOR SIGHTSEEING WEEK Continued from first page. tenders of the racing strips as Johnstown, hero of the Kentucky Derby, Belmont and Withers Stakes; Challedon, the Marylander, which won the Pimlico Preakness; Bull Lea, hero of the 0,000 Widener Cup; and the cream of the two-year-old colts and fillies of the season. The famous mile and a furlong main track is lightning fast, speeded up and safely cushioned by application of 3,000 cubic yards of new top-soil this year. On June 26 will begin a serious assault on Arlingtons time records, and many horsemen believe that new records will be written into the books before the thirty days of action are complete. However, speed stars will have to shoot at high marks, as Arlington Park has been rated for years as one of the fastest racing strips in the world, and, indeed, two worlds records have been established over it.
