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BEN JONES Has entered three of the Calumet Farm horses in todays renewal of Arlingtons Equipoise Mile the winner of which will receive the Whitney chal ¬ lenge cut donated by Col C V Whit ¬ ney in whose colors the immortal Equi ¬ poise ran Seventeen Will Seek Equipoise Mile Dwyer Tops Aqueducts War Bond Card Sun Again Faces Occupation Rounders at Homewood Oval OvalTopweighted Topweighted Calumet Farm Racer Will Be Part of Entry With MarKell Son of Peace Rate Marsch Colt Doubtful Starter in 10000 Stake Honoring World Record Holder HolderHOMEWOOD HOMEWOOD 111 June 23 A field of 17 of the shiftiest runners in training has been named to compete for the fourth edition of the 10000 added Equipoise Mile stellar offering on tomorrows attractive ArlingtonatWashington Park program The tremendously successful Calumet Farm has no fewer than three from which to select representa ¬ tion including Sun Again who will be starting top weight under 127 pounds if he journeys postward The other two are MarKell leading 1943 handicap mare with 110 pounds and the improved Son of Peace under 108 108John John Marschs Occupation second high weight under 120 pounds would seem tobe the Calumet entourages principal rival on paper Equipoise Mile 10000 ThreeYear ThreeYearOlds Olds and Upward One Mile PP Horse Jockey Wt 1 Quizzle S Freeman 98 2 War Knight No Boy 105 3 Night Shadow G Seabo 100 4 MarKell C McCreary 110 5 Salto N Jemas 102 6 Equif ox A Bodiou 102 7 Corona CoronaNoBoy 100 8 Georgie Drum G Woolf 108 9 Brief Sigh No Boy 95 10 Sun Again CMcCreary 127 11 Martian B Pucci 96 12 Fire Dust W Gillespie 93 13 Daily Trouble No Boy 100 14 Anticlimax A Skoronskl 104 15 Rounders N Jemas 117 16 Son of Peace C McCreary 108 17 Occupation O Grohs 120 120Coupled Coupled MarKell Sun Again and Son of Peace Salto and Round ¬ ers Equif ox and Daily Trouble but there exists some doubt if the Futurity specialist will appear With the uncertainty as to the actual starting field it is futile to attempt guessing the public choice But that it will be a keen mile and a firstrate weekend feature seems as ¬ sured suredOther Other name horses entered are William Helis Celtic Rounders under 117 pounds Allen Drumhellers Georgie Drum with 108 and the stakes winners Anticlimax who has up 104 and Equifox carrying 102 Round ¬ ers is coupled with Salto and still another entry is the Wells Straus duo of Equi ¬ fox a son of the Chocolate Soldier who cap ¬ tured the Equipoise Mile inaugural in 1941 and Daily Trouble TroubleRounding Rounding out the field are War Knight a recent arrival from the West Coast carry ¬ ing 105 Night Shadow 100 Corona Corona 100 Quizzle 98 Martian 96 and Fire Dust 93 93Yet Yet to Run Unplaced This Year YearSun Sun Again has been to the post nine times this season and has finished in the money each time The crack fiveyearold son of Sun Teddys most notable triumph came in the Dixie Handicap at Pimlico on May 6 and he also was victorious in the Gittings and Southern Maryland Handi ¬ cap at the Baltimore course He was the hero in defeat in both the Suburban SuburbanContinued Continued on Page Three Sun Again Occupation Vie in Equipoise Mile MileTop Top Field of Seventeen Going Postward at Homewood Today TodayContinued Continued from Page One OneHandicap Handicap at Belmont and the Widener at Hialeah but he did not leave the Florida track without a victory that coming in the renewal of the McLennan Handicap HandicapIf If Occupation accepts the issue tomor ¬ row he will be out in quest of his fourth straight score having yet to taste defeat this year He displayed fine speed to win the Beau Pere Handicap at this course on opening day after having captured the Crete Handicap at the LincolnatHaw thorne meeting and proved victorious in an overnight sprint at Churchill Downs DownsWilliam William Helis Rounders who won the Stars and Stripes Handicap at the Home wood course last year will have a few things to say about the decision of this stake He impressed the railbirds Wednes ¬ day morning when he reeled off a mile in 139 under the watchful eye of trainer Edward Snyder His lone stake triumph of the year came in the Philadelphia Handi ¬ cap and in his next start after that score he was the one to finish closest to Sun Again in the Dixie DixieIndications Indications are for a fast track and the mile track record of 135 joint property of Gallant Knight and Myrtlewood may be endangered endangeredAs As most know the Equipoise Mile cele ¬ brates Ekkys world record mile of 134 at Arlington Park on June 30 1932 This year Col C V Whitney in whose colors he performed is the donor of an elaborate perpetual Equipoise Challenge Cup which the winning owner will have in his posses ¬ sion for one year yearThe The Equipoise Mile is the best event on a thoroughly interesting weekend program of the usual eight events No fewer than six of these are under allowance conditions There is also a 3500 handicap of six fur ¬ longs for fillies and mares called the Misty Isle which promises to bring together Sil ¬ vestra Roman Sox Traffic Court and other prospects for later stakes designed for the sex The remaining race is for maiden twoyearold fillies
