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™ *-™ JUDGES STANDI By Charles Hatton » Arlington Park, H6PA Reach Understanding Lincolns Classic Route Now Rare in Illinois Bubbley Prospect for the Pollyanna Renewal Chicago Tracks Listing 5 Stakes in 7 Days HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., June 11. The stakes-spangled Arlington Park meeting will get under way as scheduled Monday and with the full support of members of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association. At the HBPA HBPA executives executives request, request, J. J. Samuel Samuel Perl- HBPA HBPA executives executives request, request, J. J. Samuel Samuel Perl- Perl-man, publisher of Daily Racing Form, acted as mediator and, in a series of conferences with representatives of the track and horsemen, clarified the misunderstanding regarding the purse distribution. In the Illinois board offices today, Senator Kohout and Dr. Lindy told us that, "The horsemens relationishp with the management is entirely amicable, and, in, fact, we feel a meeting of minds has been achieved that will promote the best interests of everybody concerned." Also at the board offices, it was indicated indicated by by chairman chairman Stuyvesant Stuyvesant Peabody Peabody ™ *-™ indicated indicated by by chairman chairman Stuyvesant Stuyvesant Peabody Peabody that the Illinois claiming rule may be amended. The rule here provides that any claimed horse must be advanced 25 per cent in valuation for 30 days. At many points this applies only to winners that are claimed. Some of the horsemen and breeders have informally protested the local regulation. A poll of horse owners opinions will be taken at Arlington and there may be a hearing on the subject. W. Hal Bishop suggested that, as an alternative, it might be amended to apply only to horses valued at ,500 or more. There also was a suggestion that closed claiming might be adopted in spring and early summer races for two-year-olds, as a protection to breeders and yearling buyers. Since Peabody was the only board member who could be present, however, the discussion was entirely informal. It will be interesting to have the opinions of the owners. The race of the week here at Lincoln-at-Hawthorne is the twenty-fifth running of the Lincoln Handicap Saturday, and there is rather a fascinating prospect it will bring together such as Volcanic and Seaward. As nearly as we can tell, the Lincoln will be the first and only mile and a quarter stake of the Illinois turf season until the Hawthorne Gold Cup is decided in October. Seaward won this test over Americas classic distance last year. The Lincoln is the first of five stakes events that are scheduled to be decided in the seven programs from Saturday to Saturday here at Arlington Park. The stylish North Side course is to open Monday with the 5,000 Cleopatra and moves on to the 5,000 Primer on Wednesday, and the 0,000 Warren Wright Memorial and 5,000 Pollyanna on the following week-end. Whirla Lea qualified handsomely for another go at her former stablemate, Real Delight, in the Cleopatra when she won in 1:10%, swiftest six furlongs of the meeting, in her return to competition here last week. Eddie Arcaro, who rode Real Delight in her "Filly Triple Crown" successes and who is forsaking the New York scene, will ride the filly in the Cleopatra if she is a starter. The Primer, on next Wednesday, is fashioned for two-year-olds of either sex, while the Wright is for three-year-olds at seven furlongs, and the Pollyanna is the first of Arlington-Washingtons features for the two-year-old fillies. The Miss America had a large field, but one wonders how many of them will reappear for the Pollyanna a week from Saturday, particularly if plain Ben Jones saddles Bubbley for that five and a half furlongs. The Debutante winner has been beaten once to date, but may be excused that one because she ducked in greenly when struck with the whip in the Lafayette Stakes back at Keeneland. Aerolite scratched home a diminishing length before her. Coincidentally, her sister, Real Delight, was debited with her only defeat the same afternoon, when the colt White Skies lasted to beat her a head in time a fifth off the track mark. "Slow and Easy" Martin, for years one of Jones aide de camps, rubs both these daughters of Bull Lea and Blue Delight, and is frank to say he considers Bubbley an even better prospect than was her sister. He points out this 16 hands "junior miss" is sounder, just as well mannered and also is intuitively a race horse. Turf ana: The Arlington surface is the scene of some brisk training maneuvers, and is reputed to be in velvet condition again this summer. . . . West Virginia has a new book of rules. . . . Mrs. Frank Glass, Calumets "Girl Friday," notes that up to last New Years, nine crops of Bull Leas had earned a total of ,599,515, a world mark the stallion already has bettered considerably in 52. . . . The Illinois board has denied several licenses this spring because of falsified applications. ... J. J. Isaacson loaned Ak-Sar-Bens facilities to the Red Cross and other agencies of flood relief during the spring deluge. . . . "Tack", for a horse-in-training is estimated to cost upward of 00 at the current rate of exchange. . . . One Count is the third stakes winner for the Jeffords stakes-winning producer Ace Card, dam also of Post Card and Yildiz. The Philadelphia sportsman one season threw Furlough and Coquelicot out of training, bred them to Case Ace in New Jersey en route to his Kentucky farm. They foaled Ace Card and Pavot, himself a Belmont Stakes winner. . . . One Count made heavy weather of finishing third in the Preakness, requires strong handling, and disposed of Blue Man in the Belmont when Arcaro switched his whip to his left hand. . . . Fred Burton was at a Cleveland miler in the 30s when play dropped to 3,000. on nine pools. The management announced it would close the meet, but horsemen persuaded them to run one more program, saying they would race for the tracks share of the handle. This 100 per cent "formula" netted 10 purses, with the mutuel department donating its services Some rather artless things have been said of Artful as a broodmare, but Be Fleet is her direct descendant. . . . We hasten to correct an error that got in here the other day in writing of the commission from the betting retained by New York tracks. Those in zone one retain 4 per cent, not 6 per cent, as we stated, and 40 per cent of the breakage.
