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rr- v, I reflectionTI By Nelson Dunstan Arlington, to Award George Woolf Trophy Eighteen Stake Events in Next Fiye Days Page Boots Has Half Brother in Sales Stymie Probable Starter in Sussex NEW YORK, N. Y., June 28. At Arlington Park on the week-end they ran the Equipoise Mile and, on the coming week-end, they will stage the Modesty Stakes. They have not only honored great horses of the past, rr- v, I but but they they have have also also done done the the rare rare thing thing at at but but they they have have also also done done the the rare rare thing thing at at American tracks in naming a race the George Woolf Memorial, which will be "run at Washington Park on August 4. While talking about this race with Ben Lindheimer, we suggested that he offer a trophy to the jockey who rides the winner, and he promptly said that it was a fine suggestion and that he would do so. A few years ago, Lindheimer instituted the idea of awarding a gold trophy to the jockey of every stake event at his track. "George Woolf was not only only a a fine fine boy, boy, but but he he was was a a great great credit credit to to only only a a fine fine boy, boy, but but he he was was a a great great credit credit to to racing, and we will be only too glad to present the winning jockey of the race that is named after him with a trophy in keeping with the event," Lindheimer said. The only other track that we know who presents a trophy to the winning rider is Delaware Park, and the event is the Tom Roby Steeplechase, named in honor of the steeplechase rider who was badly injured in a race at Belmont Park some six years ago. It has always been this writers belief that trainers and jockeys should have some memento of their part in the winning of an important race. Lets hope that other tracks will follow the lead in naming races for great jockeys and also "award the winner of those races with a trophy that will be theirs permanently. Starting tomorrow, and through Monday, July 5, racing: will enter five of the busiest days of the season, insofar as stake events is concerned. During: that period, exclusive of hurdles and steeplechases, 18 stakes with a total added value of 20,000 will be staked. At Aqueduct Wednesday, the feature event will be the 520,000 Shevlin Handicap for three-year-olds, at a mile and a sixteenth, while down at Monmouth the main race of the day will be the 0,000 Select Handicap for three-year-olds at six furlongs. At the moment, "who will go in which" is something of a guessing game. In the Shevlin, Better Self and My Request will have to carry 126 pounds due to the penalties of the former winning the Paumonok and the Yankee, and My Request taking both ends of the Experimental. Escadru is next on the list at 120, while all other starters will carry 112 pounds. Both Better Self and Saggy were assigned the top weights of 126 pounds for the Select but, if we are guessing right, Better Self will stay in New York, and Saggy, the speedster who beat Citation in the Chesapeake Trial, will be the highweight of the field in the Monmouth race. Page Boots, winner of the Kent and the Leonard Richards Stakes at Delaware Park, is in the Select with 112 pounds. This colt from the Woodvale Farm carried 119 pounds to win the Leonard Richards on the week-end and, if Saggy is a starter, he will have his job cut out for him in defeating this colt who is by Our Boots out of Our Page, by Blue Larkspur. Just a day or two back, we were saying how the victory of Miss Mommy in the Princess Doreen Stakes at Arlington would center attention on her younger brother, who will be sold by Coldstream Stud at Keeneland late next month. Here we have another such case, for the Woodvale Farm will consign a yearling to Keeneland who is by Bull Lea out of Our Page, thus a half-brother to Page Boots. Our Page, the daughter of Blue Larkspur, is a high class winner of the Spinaway Stakes. Page Boots was the first foal of Our Page and this bay colt by Bull Lea will be her third foal. While in Kentucky last week we had a good look at this youngster, and he is a beauty in every sense of the word. He should be in high demand when in the salesring, for he is one of the only two colts by the famous sire of Armed, Citation and Coaltown to be sold in Kentucky at the summer sales. . With the running of ihe 0,000 Dover Stakes, which is for two-year-olds, Delaware Park enters the last five days of its successful meeting. The most important event still to be decided is the 5,000 Sussex Handicap which, at one and one-quarter miles, will be the feature race on the week-end. Weights for this race are due tomorrow and it is a foregone conclusion that Stymie, who now boasts earnings of 83,385, will be given the post of honor as the highweight. Should he be a starter, a victory for the Jacobs champion, would carry him over the 00,000 mark and have eastern racing fans rooting hard for him to continue his winning ways and be the -first in the annals of racing throughout the world to earn ,000,000. No less than 71 three-year-olds and older horses were named for this race and on the list are many of the topnotchers of the older ranks. The July 5 stake race will be the 7,500 Delaware Oaks, which is, naturally, for three-year-old fillies, and there is just a possibility that Mrs. Dale Shaffers Miss Mommy, who defeated Bewitch in the Princess Doreen, will be shipped east Tor the race. Arlington Park near Chicago is still another track that will play heavily in the news of racing from tomorrow through next Monday. The 0,000 Primer Stakes, for two-year-olds, will lead off tomorrow and will be followed on July 1 by the 0,000 Skokie Handicap for three-year-olds; on Saturday by the 5,000 Modesty Stakes, for fillies and mares three years old and older, and then, on Monday, by the traditional 0,000 Stars and Stripes Handicap, which is for three-year-olds and older horses. At this writing there is no intention of starting Citation in the Skokie. It is barely possible that the sensational colt will appear in the Stars and Stripes. This has been one of the mainstays of the Arlington Stakes schedule for the last 20 years, and it was in this event, last year, that Armed defeated With Pleasure and Mighty Story. The great Calumet gelding will not be a starter on Monday, but this race could again be the meeting ground of Fervent and Mighty Story, who ran such a stirring race in the Equipoise Mile just a week back.
