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Col. Whitney Offers Challenge Cup to Equipoise Mile Winner A challenge cup, the gift of Col. C. V. Whitney, owner of the beloved and lamented Equipoise, will go to the winner of the Equipoise Mile Handicap, one of Arlington Parks most popular fixtures, it was announced here Saturday. The cup must be won three times by an owner before becoming his permanent possession. The 0,000 Equipoise Mile is scheduled for the first week-end program of the Arlington-Washington 70-day season on Saturday, June 24. It was on June 30, 1932, at Arlington Park that Equipoise carried the Eton blue of C. V. Whitney to victory over the fleet • Jamestown in new world-record time, 1. 1:342,5 for the mile, a mark which still stands. Six years later, after four seasons at stud, the turfs great "Chocolate Soldier" died at the age of 10. In 1941 Arlington Park added the Equipoise Mile, a handicap for three-year-olds and upward, to its array of stakes as a permanent memorial to the worlds record-holder.
