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FIFTY-FOUR ELIGIBLE FOR ARUNGTON INAUGURAL I Millsdale Stables Isaroma Assigned Top Weight of 1 22 Pounds ♦ Chicago Racing Shifts Next Monday From Lincoln Fields to Mammoth North Side Track — Many Inaugural Nominees Now on Grounds • ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 22.— Robert S. Shelley, racing secretary at Arlington Park, today announced his weights for the Inaugural Handicap, and placed the Millsdale Stables Isaroma at the head of the list, under 122 pounds. The Inaugural, worth ,500 in added money, will feature the opening program at the popular and palatial North-side racing plant, next Monday. The Inaugural drew a list of fifty-four nominations, and among those eligible for the seven furlongs sprint are some of the foremost sprinters in the Middle West. The speedy Isaroma is not considered among the likely starters, but several of the high weights grouped just below the Millsdale performer are almost sure to be found ■ = —-Mil — e in the the field field of of three-year-olds three-year-olds and and in the the field field of of three-year-olds three-year-olds and and older horses which will vie for honors in the first of eight features on Arlington Parks lavish stakes program. FORMIDABLE ENTRIES. Included in the group of second highest weights, 116 pounds, are Calumet Farms Cross Bow II., W. F. Morgans The Fighter, Mrs. Anthony Pelleteris Old Rosebush, and Friedberg and Axtons Manie OHara. The latter has become quite an imposing figure in the Chicago handicap division this season, for at Lincoln Fields this miss already has earned first money in three stakes. She is to try for her fourth Lincoln Fields stakes triumph Saturday in the Lincoln Handicap. Among other horses of prominence in the Inaugural field are Higher Cloud, Beau James, Diavolo Boy, Finance, Grey Gold, Talked About, Dora May, Lightspur, Taxes, Don Creol.e Joe Schenck, Flying Lill, Co-Sport, Smart Trick, Smart Crack, Prairie Dog, Mar Le, Dusky Prince, Olney and Drudgery. A large field is in prospect for the opening feature at Arlington, particularly, if the track is fast. Many of the nominees for the Inaugural already are on the scene receiving their final preps, while a number of others are still at Lincoln Fields to be transferred here over the week end. STAKE LISTS LARGE. Just as the Inaugural Handicap drew a large subscription list, so did other stakes on Arlingtons calendar. The Matron Handicap, for fillies and mares, attracted thirty-two representatives of this division, the Star3 and Stripes Handicap, twenty-seven three-year-olds and upward, of both sexes, and the Hyde Park Stakes, for two-year-olds, ninety-one juveniles. Of the 247 which were nominated last September for the Arlington Lassie Stakes, seventy-five still are eligible; seventy-seven, including four supplementary entries, remain in the Classic, which originally drew 152 nominees, and of the 337 named for the Ar- Continued on thirty-third page. I FIFTY-FOUR ELIGIBLE FOR ARLINGTON INAUGURAL Continued from first page. lington Futurity, 121 still have the right to start. The Arlington Handicap, another fashioned for the older handicap division, will draw its starting field from among twenty-one nominees. The weights for the Inaugural Handicap j follow: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Isarcma 122 Dolly Val 106 Cross Bow II.... 116 Double B 106 The Fighter 116 Flying Lill 106 Old Rosebush.. .116 Magic Key 106 Manie OHara...H6 Steel Heels 106 Higher Cloud... 115 Buttermilk 105 Beau James 114 Co-Sport 105 Drudgery 112 Chance Ray 105 Diavolo Boy 112 Dusky Prince. ..105 Easy Mon 112 Floragina 105 Finance 112 Olney 105 Grey Gold 112 Reaping 105 Grass Cutter 112 Noel H 104 Talked About ... Ill Smart Trick 104 Dora May 110 Court Counsel. . .103 Lightspur 110 No Competition. 103 Taxes 110 Prairie Dog 103 Tiger 109 Smart Crack 103 Don Creole 108 Sly Gal 103 Joe Schenck 108 Hi Cliff 102 Kings Blue 108 Mad Money 102 Melodist 108 Speedy Booger. .102 Novelette 108 Wiskover 102 Some Count 108 Montsin 100 Mar Le 107 Madison 100 Up the Creek 107 Syracuse 100 Calexico 106 Yankee Lad 100 Winners of ,500 after announcement of weights to carry three pounds additional; penalties accrue from 5 p. m., Thursday, June 22. — ■ _
