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BIG ARLINGTON PLANT GIVEN COMPLETE CHECKUP VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS READY FOR OPENING OPENINGMajor Major Portion of Every Task Finished Luro Delighted Over Beauty of Chicago Courses CoursesMonday Monday was checkup day out at Arlington Park where on next Monday the huge North Side plant will open its thirtyfourday meet ¬ ing which will be unequalled in the class of thoroughbreds and purse distribution within the past ten years so far as the MiddleWest is concerned concernedThe The checkup consisted of reports from the racing secretarys office the maintenance crew and the general office to generalman ¬ ager John D Jackson as to the state of af ¬ fairs in those various departments on the job of getting the 1000acre plant ready for Mondays go ahead signal The major por ¬ tion of every task is now completed Jackson declared and by Thursday Arlington Park in all its summer finery and new appoint ¬ ments will be ready for the first bugle call callArlington Arlington Park patrons always have found a colorful personality to provide sidelight interest to the racing If it was not a jockey it was a trainer or an owner or even a re c1itrant race horse with some little odd trait to evoke their interest When it comes to this kind of colorful added starter to regu ¬ lar racing affairs the coming meeting al ¬ ready gives much promise For instance if Senor Horatio Luro runs true to past per ¬ formances you will hear much of this gaucho gentleman from Pampas land landWHITE WHITE BRIDLES AND REINS REINSThe The scholarly Latin Chilean born proudly boasts racing colors said to have been in use by his family over 300 years They are white and gold braided silks He equips his horses with white bridles and reins Says the handsome owner from below the Equator I have fallen in love with Chicago and its environs had I known that your tracks offered so much in beauty and sport ¬ ing enterprise I would have raced here long ere this thisLuro Luro already has had more than a fair measure of success in North America It was he who imported the illfated Amor Brujo who raced successfully in California CaliforniaIn In addition Senor Luro imported and sold Mrs James F Waters the speedy miler Vino Puro for a sum in excess of 12000 Trainer Eual Wyatt will have this horse at Arling ¬ ton tonA A member of three exclusive jockey clubs in South America Luro has in the Chicago sector a stable of six South Americanbreds who will race at Arlington and Washington Parks under the capable handling of C Willingham a former jockey on western tracks tracksThe The runners are Sambo Rombon Stop II Bronte II Vino Blanco Gran Coso Poco CasaKNOWN Casa KNOWN AS THE GAY GAUCHO GAUCHOKnown Known as the David Harum of the land be low the Equator Luro proudly boasts that never has he sold a horse to anyone that did not prove a real runner Referred to by the California movie colony as the Gay Gaucho because of his ability to entertain with stories of the southern continent Luro is at the tracks daily a Beau Brummel of sartorial elegance handsome and erect and uore than likely surrounded by turfmen who seek his advice on Latin racing affairs affairsLuro Luro believes his charges will be at their best on the grass course at Arlington as that is the type of racing which his runners ex ¬ perienced in their early training days in the land of their birth Luros horses will be vanned from Washington Park within a day or so Trainer Willingham reports them to be on razor edge The Senor expects to do well in the gr ss races
