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Entry Blanks Mailed For Oak Brook Chase ChaseOffers Offers SixRNace Card Featuring ChallengeXup at Three Miles MilesInvitations Invitations to participate in the Oak Brook Steeplechase scheduled June 5 at the Butler Estate near Hinsdale 111 have been mailed to some 550 horse owners through ¬ out the country it was announced today by A D Plamondon TIL chairman of the entries committee A sixrace program the only one of its kind offered in Illinois this year has been announced and work on the course is nearing completion completionThe The main event will be a race titled the Oak Brook Challenge Cup booked at three miles over timber The course itself is a mile and onehalf in circumference circumferenceOther Other events are arePolo Polo race Onequarter mile straight ¬ away to be ridden hi polo attire attireGinger Ginger Creek Hunter Race Three miles over hunting fences to be ridden in hunt uniform only open to qualified hunters of a registered hunt huntThe The DuPage One mile over turf to be ridden in silks or hunting attire for three yearolds and upward upwardThe The Rabbit Hill Hurdles About a mile and onehalf over hurdles Ladies Race About one mile on the flat catchweights ratcatcher ratcatcherEd Ed Note Ratcatcher in hunts parlance means wear anything you want The meeting will be op en to the public and plans are being made to accommodate a crowd exceeding 20000 The Oak Brook course is approximately four miles northwest of Hinsdale at the corner of Cass Avenue and 22nd Street
