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WHIRLAWAYS CHANCE TO UPSET PRECEDENT PRECEDENTIf If He Starts and Wins Stars and Stripes Would Be Only ThreeYearOId to Do So SoShould Should Ben Jones elect to start Warren Wrights Whirlaway in the 10000 added Stars and Stripes Handicap at Arlington Park on the Fourth of July and word here now is that he will be shipped west on Sun ¬ day with that objective he will be attempt ¬ ing to accomplish something never done before Not that there is anything unusual to Ben Jones trying to accomplish some ¬ thing never before accomplished with Whirl away but in this instance it happens that in the twelve runnings of the mile and one eighth Stars and Stripes Handicap it has never been won by a threeyearold No less than twelve of that age have tried to turn that feat but the fact that Whirlaway will be the thirteenth threeyearold to attempt to win the holiday feature and that he will be doing so in the thirteenth running of the race will hardly deter Jones from sending his speedy colt out after the winners end of the 10000 added purse Checking back through the twelve fields which have contested the Stars and Stripes it is found that the first threeyearold to attempt to win the event was Caruso a filly who finished fifteenth in a field of sixteen in the second running of the race in 1930 Col E R Bradleys B ue Larkspur a four yearold at the time was the winner that year over a field which included Misstep and Sun Beau The following year when Plucky Play won the race from Mike Hall and The Nut only one threeyearold A La Carte was in the field and he finished ninth in a tenhorse contest contestHEAD HEAD PLAY FAILED FAILEDOne One may be prone to say that there was nothing outstanding about Caruso and A La Carte as threeyearolds And probably that contention is right But in 1933 while Head Play was good enough to win the Preak ness and had the Kentucky Derby taken from him by Brokers Tip he represented the threeyearold brigade and finished eleventh in a twelvehorse race which was won by D A Woods Indian Runner Among the other starters that day were Gallant Sir and Tred Avon AvonThe The biggest representation the threeyear old division ever had in the Stars and Stripes was in 1934 when no less than four went to the post Indian Runner won his second straight running of the race that year as the Brookmeade Stables Good Goods made the best showing made of a threeyearold up to that time by finishing fourth to Mrs Isabel Dodge Sloanes repre ¬ sentative Advising Anna and Ladysman New Deal who finished sixth Bien Fait who finished seventh and Thomasville who finished thirteenth were the other three yearolds Fifteen horses contested the is ¬ sue sueThe The following year 1935 Discovery car ¬ ried 126 pounds to victory in the Stars and Stripes as a fouryearold Six lengths be ¬ hind him Gallaher Coombs Chief Chero ¬ kee accounted for second money Thats the best any threeyearold has done in the race There were eight horses in the field and Calumet Dick who finished seventh was the only other threeyearold on deck deckRECALL RECALL 1936 RUNNING RUNNINGE E F Seagrams stand Pat won the 1936 running of the Stars and Stripes while Corinto Whopper and Hollyrood finished in that order behind him The last named was a threeyearold That was the day Discov ¬ ery carried 138 pounds and finished ninth without extending himself himselfEagle Eagle Pass and Chief Onaway are the other threeyearolds who have attempted to win the Arlington feature The former finished fourth when Mrs Emil Denemarks Corinto won in 1937 and the latter finished fifth when Mrs John Hertzs Count dOr won in 1939 1939None None of the twelve threeyearolds who went to the post in the Stars and Stripes Handicap had the class of Whirlaway of course but then how many threeyearolds have been as sharp at that age as the son of Blenheim II has shown himself to be In winning the American Triple Crown Whirlaway appears to have things pretty much his own way right now and with the handicap division the way it is right now it is hard to visualize even older horses giv ¬ ing him a whipping even in a race like the Stars and Stripes where the racing secre ¬ tary can tailor the weights to give just about every horse a chance
