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I I J * , , I 1 1 1 , • 1 . j RICH PRIZES AT ARLINGTON I 6,000 in Added Money, With Gross i Value of 90,000 in Eight Stakes. Classic and Futurity Two Most Valuable , and Eagerly Sought After — Three Cups for Winners. Champions and pretenders in all divisions , ! I of American racing will invade the Middle : West to battle for the gold and glory of eight stakes at Arlington Park, which opens its 3 thirty-day meeting here next Monday. Carrying 6,000 in added money Arling- " , tons eight stakes will gross in value in the neighborhood of 90,000. Most prized, not only for the gold but greatly for glory, is 3 the Classic Stakes, most important mid-summer race for three-year-olds, which likely * will gross 0,000. In the Classic, a race graced with a galaxy t of champion heroes, the best three-year-olds of the season have been nominated. Chief among the horses pointing for the Classic c honors on the heels of Blue Larkspur, Gallant " Fox, Granville, Omaha and Cavalcade will be Johnstown, winner of the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Wood Memorial. • Withers and Dwyer Stakes. The speed star r from Belair will be shooting for his owner, "» William Woodwards fourth Classic victory. • The chairman of The Jockey Club and patron " of Belair Stud has previously won the e race with Gallant Fox, Omaha and Granville, " all champions of their respective years. • CLASSIC ELIGIBLES. Other notables on the Classic list are W. ■ L. Branns Challedon, hero of the Preakness and a superlative mud runner, Millsdale Sta-I L" bles Sun Lover, second to Johnstown in the e Dwyer and an improving horse: John Hay Whitneys Heather Broom, winner of Keene-lands !" Blue Grass Stakes; Herbert M. Woolf s Technician, winner of the Flamingo Stakes; King Ranchs Ciencia, winner of the 0,000 t Santa Anita Derby; W. E. Boeings Porters Mite and George D. Wideners Eight Thirty, ft first and second, respectively, in the 1938 Belmont Futurity. Next most valuable stake is the Arlington Futurity, for two-year-olds on July 29, which n may gross 5,000. Last year this race was s won by Mrs. Payne Whitneys ill-fated Thingumabob which was destroyed after an accident 1_ in his next race at Saratoga Springs. s- A total of 121 nominations, including all Lhe top flight juveniles of the country, were received 2" for the Futurity. Three of the most costly gold cups given n away at any meeting in the world will be ie added prizes for the Classic and the Futurity. I_ These are fourteen-carat replicas ot r the historic Coronation Cup won in England " in 1929 by Mrs. John Hertz Reign Count, *i famous internationalist. PERMANENT POSSESSION. The Classic Cup goes into permanent possession s- of the winning owner and the first =t replica was won last year for Willis Sharpe e Kilmer, noted breeder and owner, by Ned-ayr. i- Then there is a gold cup for the winner of the Futurity. Another, named the ie Cary T. Grayson Memorial, is presented the ie breeder of the Futurity winner. This latter r . prize is the most valuable trophy given awav 9 I to breeders in America. Other stakes and their estimated gross val-1 1- ues are the ,000 added Inaugural Handicap .p next Monday, the ,500 in the Matron Handicap on July 1, the 5,000 in the Stars rs and Stripes Handicap on July 4, the ,000 0 Hyde Park Stakes on July 8, the 5,000 in the Lassie Stakes on July 15 and the ,500 0 1- .p rs 0 in 0 — a in the Arlington Handicap on July 29. j The influx of horses shipping in from east-m ern and mid-wdst racing grounds has stepped up briskly in the past few days and about I one-third of the 1,200 horses to be accom-in ; modated already are bedded down in Arling" I ton stalls.
