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Seventeen Seventeen Likely Likely to to Seek Seek Derby; Derby; List List Arlington Arlington -Washington -Washington Stakes Stakes Offer ,250,000 , At Two Meetings Feature 5#000 Handicap At North Side Course; Run 27 Events in 67-Day Period Benjamin F. Lindheimer, executive director of Arlington Park and Washington Park race tracks, yesterday announced a 1950 coordinated stakes and purse program for the two Chicagoland tracks totaling over ,250,000, Americas richest summer racing program. The program designed by lindheimer and racing secretary Frank E. "Jimmy" Kilroe continues the policy of giving horses in all classifications frequent stakes opportunities. In announcing the stakes schedule for this year, Lindheimer stated: "Arlington Park and Washington Park are pleased to offer this stakes program as a continuation of their efforts to help build American racing. We believe that the owners, breeders and trainers are entitled to a program of these standards." A total of 27 stakes events will be run during the 67-day season which begins at Arlington Park on June 19 and closes at Washington Park on Labor Day. The handicap division is highlighted by the Arlington Handicap, which this year becomes the richest handicap of the summer season. The Arlington will carry an added value of 5,000 for its 1950 running. Transfer Stars and Stripes to Grass The 0,000 Washington Park Handicap remains the top event in the division at the Homewood course, and added to these are Arlingtons Equipoise Mile, Washington Parks Whirlaway Stakes, both 5;000 added, at a mile. Of increasing importance through the years in the handicap division has been stakes events on the grass, where Arlington Park and Washington Park have led the way in establishing a high caliber of sport in this colorful phase of racing. The movement to bring the top horses to the grass-course events receives great impetus this year with the announcement that the traditional Stars and Stripes Handicap will be run on the turf course. The Stars and Stripes, and Washington Parks Meadowland Handicap, will each carry an added value of 5,000. In the three-year-old division, the nationally prominent 0,000 Arlington Classic and 0,000 American Derby will again be featured events. Both are expected to Continued on Page Three Arlington and Washington to Disburse ,250,000 in Stakes,PursesThisYear Feature 5,000 Handicap At North Side Course; Run 27 Events in 67-Day Period Continued front Page One achieve a gross value of 0,000 each. In addition, the Dick Welles Stakes and the Sheridan Handicap at 0,000 added each, give the three-year-olds two other attractive events restricted to their division. No less than 85,000 is being offered in filly and mare stakes, a continuation of the policy that has exerted the most important influence on the success and development of the breeding industry in the last decade. Nine stake events are offered for the female horses in the various divisions. The Arlington Lassie and Princess Pat Stakes, 5,000 added, will achieve a gross value of 0,000 each, maintaining their position as the worlds richest races for two-year-old fillies. The two-year-old division, of course, headed by the Arlington Futurity and the Washington Park Futurity expected to gross 0,000 each, in addition to which the Hyde Park and Primer Stakes will be run at Arlington Park, the Woolf Memorial . and Prairie State Stakes at Washington Park. The stakes schedule follows: June 19, Hyde Park Stakes, 5,000 added, two-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs. June 21, Princess Doreen Stakes, 5,000 added, 3-year-olds, fillies, six furlongs. June 24, Myrtlewood Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. June 28, Dick Welles Stakes, 0,000 added, three-year-olds, seven furlongs. July 1, Modesty Stakes, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, fillies and mares, six furlongs. July 3, Primer Stakes,- 5,000 added, two-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs. July 4, Equipoise Mile, 5,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, one mile. July 8, Arlington Lassie Stakes, 5,000 added, two-year-olds, fillies, six furlongs. July 12, Cleopatra Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds, fillies, one mile. July 15, Arlington Classic, 0,000 added, three-year-olds, one and-one-quarter miles. July 19, Stars and Stripes Handicap on the turf. 5,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-eighth miles. July 22, Arlington Futurity, 0,000 added, two-year-olds, six furlongs. July 26, Arlington Matron Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, fillies and mares, one mile. July 27, Pollyanna Stakes, 5,000 added, two-year-olds, fillies, six furlongs. July 29, Arlington Handicap, 5,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-quarter miles. July 31, George Woolf Memorial, 5,000 added, two-year-olds, colts and geldings, six furlongs. August 2, Sheridan Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds, one mile. August 5, Princess Pat Stakes, 5,000 added, two-year-olds, fillies, six furlongs. August 9, Clang Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, seven furlongs. August 12, Meadowland Handicap on the turf, 5,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, one and three-sixteenths miles. August 16, Misty Isle Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, fillies and mares, six furlongs. August 19, Whirlaway Stakes, 5,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, one mile. August 23, Prairie State Stakes, 5,000 added, two-year-olds, six furlongs. August 26, American Derby, 0,000 added, three-year-olds, one and one-quarter miles. August 30, Beverly Handicap, 5,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, fillies and mares, one and one-eighth miles. September 2, Washington Park Handicap, 0,000 added, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-quarter miles. September 4, Washington Park Futurity, 0,000 added, two-year-olds, six furlongs.
