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. — Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY HAWTHORNE. Cicero, 111., June 12.— The 5,000 added Cleopatra Stakes, first important race on the Arlington Park agenda, is expected to attract a strong field of three-yea r-o 1 d fillies. Named for a great race mare, the history of the event goes back to 1942 when it was taken by Blue Delight with the western jockey, Ralph Neves, aboard. Among the subsequent winners were such splendid members members of of racings racings members members of of racings racings distaff side as Busher, Bewitch, Two Lea, and Sickles Image. The latter was successful last season when she defeated Calumets Jennie Lee. Two other fine fillies, Wistful and Next Move, each finished third in the Cleopatra in their three -year -old years. Busher and Bewitch are now serving as broodmares. Two Lea was recently second at Hollywood Park in making her first start in two years. Wistful was a winner at the same course about a week ago and Next Move is racing in New York. Blue Delight is the dam of the Calumet Stables Real Delight, winner of the Kentucky Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan, and the Coaching Club American Oaks, and a filly who is at present away out in front in the race for three-year-old filly honors of the year. It is expected that Real Delight will start in the Cleopatra, and if so will be an overwhelming favorite. It may be a case of like mother, like daughter. Blue Delight was a four-year-old when she took the honors in the stake. The following year conditions were changed to make the affair for three-year-olds, exclusively. Jockie Eddie Arcaro, who will be aboard Real Delight, will be seeking his first triumph in the Cleopatra. No one jockey has won the race twice, and Steve Brooks and Doug Dodson are the only ones with a chance to do so. Ivan Thomas, Arlington racing secretary, returned from Detroit. He reports that the good mare Sickles Image is being shipped to Monmouth Park, but may be sent to Arlington for the Artful to be run June 25. . Nominations for the Warren Wright Memorial and the Pol-lyanna Stakes will be made public Friday. . Otto Grohs will resume riding Friday or Saturday. . .Wendell Eads, who was recently released from the hospital, will accept mounts in a week or 10 days... The stakes -winning three-year-old, Gushing Oil, has been fired by Dr. D. L. Proctor, of Lexington. The colt will remain in the Chicago area with others in the Sam E. Wilson, Jr. string. . .Frank Podesta, former farm manager for Henry Knight, is paying a visit from his home in Memphis, Tenn Charles Gormley will take entries at Hawthorne for Arlingtons opening day program. . .Mr. and Mrs. Carl Blair, who have a large string quartered at Fairmount, are visiting for a few days. . Billy Minor, of Breezy Crest Farm and part owner of Hawthorne track record holder, Yellmantown, is in from Lexington. . Eddie Rice, who made the engagements of jockey Ken Church last season, is an arrival from New York. Dance Nsing, who ran two very good races here, is being pointed for the Warren Continued on Page Thirty-Seven Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three Wright Memorial at Arlington . Randy Sechrest has purchased Nugget Gold from the Red Top Farm to run in the interests of Mrs. Sechrest . . Howard Wells is still confined to Mt. Sinai Hospital, Chicago, and is reported to be showing slow but steady improvement . . . Steward Jack G. Goode will spend a little time at his Paris, Ky., home before reporting to Dade Park, where he also serves as steward . . William Hal Bishop sold Lutz Girl to Thomas F. Smith and Steve Ippolitowill do the training . . Seamans Pal and Mik have been purchased by L. H. Simmons from P. J. Valenti and will be shipped to Ascot Park, Ohio . . E. A. Weidekamp, director of mu-tuels, will leave for his home in Louisville at the conclusion of the meeting. Owner-trainer W. J. Schmidt states he will start his three-year-old filly, Hedge-bill, in the Cleopatra Stakes. Hedgebill, an easy winner at Fairmount Park recently, is one of the first crop of the sire Bushwhacker . . .There was a large turnout at the Illinois Breeders Association annual meeting and dinner held here Tuesday evening ... It is rather unusual that three of the four top weight horses in the Lincoln Handicap, Volcanic, Seaward and Inseparable, are seven-year-olds. Volcanic is a stallion. The others geldings . . Walter "Ham jam" Hal jean will make the engagements of jockey Doug Dodson at Arlington. Hal jean, who had much to do with the success of apprentice Al Widman here last season, also has the "book" of apprentice Ronnie Baldwin. Mrs. Julia Parke, mother of the Parke boys of racing fame, arrived from her home in Delco, Idaho, to visit with her sons, Vasco and Ivan. She was accompanied by Vascos wife, Teresa . .Eddie Arcaro would have ridden in the Lincoln Handicap had a mount on which he could make the weight been available, but jockeys had already been engaged for the topweight runners . . Abe Samuels, the nationally known speed-o-print manufacturer, is at the races trying to get even. . .Instead of shipping to River Downs, Harry Golden will move the horses in his care to Arlington Park . . . The filly, Last Greetings, winner of the Santa Ynez and Santa Barbara Stakes at Santa Anita, has been transported from the West Coast by airplane to take part in the stakes for which she is eligible. She is owned by Clifford Mooers and will be trained by Roy Waldron. One of Last Greetings victims in the Santa Ynez was A Gleam, the crack Calumet filly. Last Greetings is by With Regards, one of Californias most successful sires of sprinters out of Backwoods, a mare by the Australian stallion, Hua.
