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Former Stablemates Seek Myrtlewood Trio Wrote Unique Chapter in Racing Sun Again, Some Chance and Wishbone Ready for Opening Stake of Arlington Season HOMEWOOD, 111., June 16.— It would take a fiction writer to pack in more thrills than those already promised for Arlington Parks opening day feature at Washington Park next Monday, the ,000 Myrtlewood Handicap, a six-furlong dash for three-year-olds and upward. Late mails may bring additional entries for the Myrtlewood which closed at midnight Tuesday, but the early nominations include several horses which lend exceptional interest to the race. One of the extraordinary features of the entry list i3 the presence of the three former Calumet Farm stablemate, Sun Again, Some Chance and Wishbone. Those three made unique turf history in 1941 when they finished one-two-three as above named in the rich Arlington Futurity. Since that eventful day Some Chance has been sold to the Virginia sportsman and breeder, Abram S. Hewitt, while Wishbone has passed into the ownership of the Chicagoan, J. M. Hutchins. Sun Again still races for Warren Wrights Calumet Farm. Wishbone was a recent winner for owner Hutchins, having bested Eddie •Rochester" Andersons Burnt Cork in the Drake Hotel Handicap at Hawthorne. Incidentally, Burnt Cork, a winner last Saturday, vi also among the Myrtlewood nominees. Some Chance, always a sprinter of high rank, seems to be better than ever right now. He won the Plymouth Rock Handicap last Saturday, having previously taken the Roseben Handicap for the second consecutive year at Belmont Park. He was a sensational winner of the Northwestern Handicap at Arlington Park last season and as a juvenile won the Belmont Futurity. Trainer Ben Jones is said to have Sun Again going well again. He went wrong following the 1942 Preakness in which he ran a dead heat with Requested for second behind Alsab, and was then given a long rest. Fairaris Invader From Canada Besides this private fight between the three former Calumet stablemates, the Myrtlewood is given a touch of international flavor by the presence of the Canadian sprinter, Fairaris, a four-year-old imported son of the English sire. Fair Trial, who races for R. S. McLaughlin of Toronto. Fairaris won the Peter Pan Handicap last year. Another Myrtlewood candidate is the six-year-old Parasang, owned by Lt. Col. C. V. Whitney. This fast son of Halcyon, who has hung up a considerable string of stake victories in his five seasons of campaigning, is making his first invasion of the West. Still another challenger for the Myrtlewood is Suncap, winner of the Juvenile and National Stallion Stakes last year for Fox-catcher Farm. The three-year-old son of the 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap winner, Rosemont, was sold recently to V. L. Shea of New York and is being trained by Paul Kelley. Woolford Farms good sprinter Signator, triple stakes winner last year and who won the Crete Handicap last month for the second consecutive time, also is a candidate for the Myrtlewood. Racing secretary Webb Everett will make his weight assignments tomorrow for the opening daf feature at Washington Park. In the meantime he is accepting nominations for the three additional stakes to be run next week, Wednesdays ,000 Princees Doreen Stakes, which will engage a band of three-year-old fillies at six furlongs: Thursdays ,000 Primer Stakes, first of the added money events for juveniles, and Saturdays 0,000 Equipoise Mjle, which. In its brief history, has become one of Americas outstanding events at the distance. These three last named stakes close Jcr nominations on Saturday this week.
