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Opening of Arlington Park v Meeting Is Only Week Away Big Influx of Stables Due From East Reggie Cornell Rates Flower Bed Highly HighlyARLINGTON ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 111 June 12 Luxuriant Arlington Park Chicagolands pride among the nations most lavishly appointed courses is ready for action As its stakesstudded 36day meeting sched ¬ uled to begin a week from Monday nears horses are beginning to stream into the spacious plant A mere handful had checked in up to this morning but by mid ¬ week the barns will be fairly filled by horses from virtually all racing centers centersThese These powerful units will supplement the array of better stables that have been cam ¬ paigning during the Lincoln Fieldsat Washington session which closes out next Saturday SaturdayAmong Among the more successful stables that will be bedded down when the opening bugle sounds are those of Calumet Farm Brookfield Farm Mrs Ada L Rice Hal Price Headley Reggie Cornell with a strong public unit H Guy Bedwell and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt among others othersCalumets Calumets first contingent was slated to arrive at noon today This lot comes from Kentucky and is comprised mainly of two yearolds most of whom have not faced the barrier The others forming the main division will come from the East in sec ¬ tions during the week Once assembled there will be no less than 46 horses housed in the Warren Wright barn barnCitation Citation to Arrive Thursday ThursdayCitation Citation reigning champion of the three yearolds is not expected until some time Thursday his fatherandson trainers B A and Jimmy Jones preferring to allow the brilliant colt opportunity to fully re ¬ cover from his Belmont Stakes effort be ¬ fore entraining from New York to this point Other leaders of the fabulous Calu ¬ met menage are Armed who has done little in the way of serious training for several weeks but who may return to competition possibly during the late part of the meet ¬ ing Beau Dandy a promising threeyear old who has won four of his five starts Bewitch queen of last seasons twoyear old fillies Coaltown Citations fleet run ¬ ning mate in sophomore fixtures Fault ¬ less winner of the Gallant Fox Handicap Fervent one of the leaders of the handicap Comparative Earnings Calumet Farm FarmJanuary January 1 to June 12 1948 inclusive 646935 January 1 to June 12 1947 inclusive 454591 454591Horses Horses carrying the devils red and blue silks of Calumet Farm earned 1402436 in 1947 a worlds record division In the Pink who is undefeated in four starts this year and many others othersCalumets Calumets galaxy of juveniles will be watched with considerable interest It was at Arlington Park last season that Bewitch first showed signs of brilliancy even though her earlier performances in Ken ¬ tucky offered mute testimony as to her speed and class Then Citation and Free America were brought out and they too attained outstanding form over the local strip stripReggie Reggie Cornell astute young trainer who says with a break in luck we may not have to take a back seat to Calumet has a youngster of established quality in Flower Bed whom he acquired for H B Delman of New York for 20000 at the Louis B Mayer dispersal sale last January JanuaryFlower Flower Bed won both of her two starts at Garden State once establishing a track record of 59 This mark however was later eclipsed by the sensational Blue Peter who handled the distance in 58 Cornell said he had her all set for a stakes engage ¬ ment in the East when a training mishap put her on the sidelines sidelinesBut But shes okay now the curleyheaded conditioner relates and Im putting in with her as the best Ive seen this year until something better comes along Cor ¬ nell also has two horses who were flown from France recently Birachiem and Budapest Both have trained smartly since their arrival They are owned by Dnitri Djordjadze who now owns a breeding farm in Virginia Djordjadze recently purchased several other Frenchbred horses They are scheduled to arrive here from France some time next week says Cornell He expects to have some 30 horses in his care by the opening openingArlington Arlington Park appeared in all of its lush beauty this morning Both the main racing strip which is a mile and one eighth in circumference and the one mile training track were open to horses and the turf course presented its usual picture of richness
