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| i c Arlington Notebook By J. J. MURPHY ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 21. — Stuyvesant Peabody, Jr., chairman of the Illinois Racing Board, is strictly against two bills pending in the Illinois State legislature. The first bill is framed to extract an additional 1 per cent from the pari-mutuel handle ; the second measure provides that half the stable space at Illinois tracks must be allotted to Illinois owners. Of the latter bill Peabody says "the t c I c c t s c t I i 1 t I 3 bill if passed could result in lowering the quality of horses running in Illinois. This provincial type of legislation will invite other states to pass retaliatory legislation discriminating against Illinois owners, so that they will find it difficult to race outside Illinois when our tracks are closed during the winter.". . It is expected that the Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt colors will be seen here for the first time this season in the Arlington Matron Handicap on July 14. Next Move will be a starter in that race. Owner Vanderbilt may arrive in time for the Independence Day program, which will be featured by the Stars and Stripes Handicap. Some slants of the Equipoise Mile: Equifox, a son of Equipoise, was the first winner, and came back four years later to win it again. The race was "split" on that occasion, and Daily Trouble accounted for the other end . . Arthur Craig, last heard of a couple of years back on the smaller tracks in Ohio, was the first winning jockey. . .F. A. Smith, only rider to win it twice. . .Oil Capitol, last years winner, only three-year-old ever to be in the money aside from Lou-jac, who was third to Fervent in 1948 . . . N. L. Pierson, Fervents rider, now makes his home in California . . Many horses beaten in the race are better than some winners, frinstance, Armed, Coaltown, Thumbs Up, Carrara Marble, and Georgie Drum. . Five previous winners, Equifox, Best Seller, Sun Again, With Pleasure, and Fervent, are at stud. Witch Sir is running in cheap claiming races; Star Reward broke down in California a year ago last winter; Oil Capitol is still racing, and Daily Trouble, a gelding, has disappeared from the scene. Judge George W. Schilling reports from Western Canada that Calgary had a record-breaking meeting despite two days of snow and three of rain during the 14-day session. Schilling, now at Polo Park, Winnipeg, also serves as racing secretary and has not failed to close the entries at the 10 a. m. deadline in three years. The San Diego, Calif., official, who introduced the 10-day minimum suspension rule in California last year while presiding at Bay Meadows, writes, "We never had a single fall in the last two meetings at Bay Meadows, and racing at the last meeting was clean to the end that more than a normal average of favorites were successful. With motion pictures in vogue it can easily be ascertained whether or not a jockey is guilty of rough riding. If it is the horses fault, then the horse should be barred un- Continued on Page Thirty-Seven r ARLINGTON PARK | NOTEBOOK Continued from Page Three til such time as its owner can prove It to be manageable. If a jockey wilfully rough rides and endangers the lives of other riders through either recklessness or carelessness, then 10 days on the ground will make him cautious not to repeat the offense. The 10-day minimum suspension rule is also a deterrent to those who may 1 be inclined to put the squeeze play on other riders." Ability and experience has its own reward, and the veteran jockey Willie Garner, who piloted Errards Guide to victory in the Joliet Stakes, will be aboard the colt in the Hyde Park Stakes one week from Saturday . . Apprentice Al Widman, who suffered a badly bruised I leg at Washington Park, is expected to return to action Monday. Duval Headley announced he would soon start out a young apprentice rider, Floyd Green, at Arlington. The lad has had but one mount, that at Detroit . Mr. and Mrs. George Holmes, of Liberty, Texas, are visiting here as guests of Harold Raines, one of the Brown Hotel Stable trainers . Eddie Hayward has obtained the services of Eddie Arcaro to ride the South American, Miche, in the Equipoise Mile . John C. Hauer has announced the filly Aris Mona will get in Saturday and will be pointed for the Modesty Handicap to be run June 30. . . Louis Augustus and C. S. Nahm, who own a racing stable in partnership, are here from Louisville, Ky. Joseph A. Kroeck, former trap-shooting champion and broker from Chicago, who only last year took out a trainers license, is the recipient of numerous congratulations these days. The portly horseman claimed the good campaigner, Mr. Fox, last winter at Gulf stream Park, in the account of Mrs. Mabel McCabe, for ,000, and presently the route -runner is regarded among the smartest racers on the grounds. Mr. Fox just recently finished second in the Lincoln Handicap on the final day of the Lincoln-at-Washington session. It was i slightly more than a year ago that the I same horse was competing with a ,800 claiming tag. Mrs. McCabe, who makes her home in Miami, earned the sobriquet of "claiming queen" during the racing season there, and Kroeck continues to be active in the haltering mart. Naturally eough, she is extremely pleased to have I Mr. Kroeck guiding the destinies of her i thoroughbreds. i Have nothing startling to offer in the way of winners, but look for the following to go fairly well: H ADR AIM in the second; MASTER MIND in the fourth; ADAMS OFF OX in the sixth. I
