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Racing Returns Today To Arlington Course Initial Meeting at Spacious North Side Course Since 1942 Continued from Page One a quarter of a million dollars in added money, with overnight purses scheduled to run as high as 0,000, which will make it the richest summer race meeting in the country. Heading the first weeks program will be the 0,000 Clang Handicap, a seven-furlong dash for three-year-olds and upward, on Wednesday, in which many of the leading handicap horses will compete, while on Saturday a double feature will find the Hyde Park Stakes, 0,000 and the Princeas Doreen, 5,000 added on top. The Hyde Park is for two-year-olds at five and one- half furlongs, while the Princess Doreen is for three-year-old fillies at six furlongs. Heading the opening program Monody will be the Spokane Purse, a 0,000 mile and one-eighth event, which, incidentally will be exactly one full turn of the track, this being the circumference of this course. A small field of five horses, aged three years and upward, will contest the issue, with Mrs. Ada L. Rices Richmond Jac, a colt who showed an exceedingly smart race in the 0,000 Suburban Handicap on Memorial Day at Belmont Park, looming as an odds-on favorite in the jaunt. A four-year-old son of Jacopo Richmond Rose, the Rice speedster, who is housed in the same barn with Snow Boots and Sirde, gets in the race with 111 pounds, which under the conditions gives him a decided advantage. In the Suburban he finished fourth to Armed after racing in the thick of contention all the way. He is a West Coast development and at present is re garded as one of the top handicap horses in the country. His main opposition in the Spokane is likely to come from either J. C. Stones Sgt. Spence, a handy winner at Hawthorne before bowing to The Dude in his last race and Old Kentuck, a speedster in the Walmac Stables barn, who is in the midst of a comeback. Sgt. Spence, a three-year-old is allowed in the race with the feather impost of 101 pounds while Old Kentuck must carry 111. Top weight of the field will be Mrs. Clyde Troutts Take Wing, another who is on the comeback trail, but who disappointed badly when he was beaten by sixteen lengths in his most recent performance at Hawthorne. Shut Eye, owned by Mrs. T. Ott, has been competing against a lower grade of horses with some success and it is considered the outsider in the field. Post time throughout the meeting has been set for 2:15 p. m., including Saturdays and holidays and the daily double races will be the usual first two.
