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Powerful Calumet Farm Stable Arrives En Masse at Homewood Crack Sprinters Point or Arlington Parks Inaugural Day Beau Pere Handicap HandicapHOMEWOOD HOMEWOOD 111 June 15 The arrival of Warren Wrights prodigiously successful Calumet Farm entourage highlighted ac ¬ tivities at Washington Park today Ben Jones charges had an uneventful journey from Belmont Park and the presence on the grounds of such sports page headliners as Sun Again Pensive Twilight Tear Mar Kell and Miss Keeneland lends much addi ¬ tional tone and interest to the lavish pro ¬ gram of Arlington Washington stakes fea ¬ tures turesBarring Barring some misfortune the stable will have formidable representation in each of the quintet of 50000 handicaps during the 70 days at the Homewood course First of these opulent specials is the Stars and Stripes Handicap of a mile and a furlong for threeyearolds and upward on the Glorious Fourth The Stars and Stripes is the feature of five days sport devoted to War Relief and Charities It will be followed by the Arlington Classic on July 22 the Arlington Handicap on July 29 the American Derby on August 26 and the Washington Park Handicap on Labor Day DayMain Main Reliance in Wrights String StringSun Sun Again is the most prominent pos ¬ sibility for the handicaps with Pensive the stables chief reliance in the Derby and Classic As the winner of the Ken ¬ tucky Derby and Preakness Pensive is the current leader of the threeyearolds from an earnings standpoint despite his narrow defeat in the Belmont In addition to Pensive ownerbreeder Wright has the re ¬ doubtable pair of Amazons Twilight Tear and Miss Keeneland eligible for the Clas ¬ sic Miss Keeneland also is in the Ameri ¬ can Derby DerbyTwilight Twilight Tear has placed the Pimlico Oaks Acorn and Coaching Club American Oaks to her credit and presently is fresh ¬ ening while Miss Keeneland who defeated her for last falls Selima is being pointed for ArlingtonWashington engagements Jockey Conn McCreary will ride for the establishment here hereMeanwhile Meanwhile Mondays Beau Pere Handi ¬ cap a 5000 test of six furlongs gives promise of developing the most significant sprint thus far in the Chicago season Among the candidates are such vaunted members of racings fast set as John Marschs Futurity specialists Occupation and Occupy Brolites recordbreaker Chal ¬ lenge Me the West Coasts highly re ¬ garded Georgie Drum and Sirde Herbert Woolfs Silvestra and William Helis Rounders RoundersSirde Sirde is reputed to be a kind of con ¬ temporary Carlaris and his appearance will excite a good deal of interest Occupation is many observers nominee to the cham ¬ pionship of the 1944 sprinters If the track is fast some fancy fractions will be displayed for the Beau Pere it seems safe to predict
