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_ H HK 9 ► _ — Arlington Notebook I By J. J. MURPHY ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Height, 111., June 18. — Patrons of this course will be treated to a couple of featured stake races Saturday. Saturday. The The items items _ Saturday. Saturday. The The items items down for decision are the Warren Wright Memorial Stakes for three -year - olds at seven furlongs, and the Pollyanna Stakes for two-year-old fillies at five and one-half furlongs. The Warren Wright, which was run for the first time last year, honors the late owner owner of of Calumet Calumet owner owner of of Calumet Calumet Farm, which has played such an important part in the history of Chicago racing. Jumbo, owned by Hal Price Headley, won the inaugural, with Ruhe second and Bern-wood, third. All three thoroughbreds are here for this meeting. The Pollyanna was first decided in 1942 when it was taken by Miss Barbara, who earned ,000. It was not run again until 1946 when it was split into two divisions with the winner of each drawing down almost 0,000. Bewitch, of Calumet Farm, is the most important filly to have been victorious. Princess Lygia, now in California, was the victress last season. The star, Sickles Image, was third to Flyamanita in 1950. Jockey Johnny Adams, who led the riders at Arlington last year, has been engaged to pilot the Calumet cast-off, Stephens Girl, in the Pollyanna, and will have the leg up on Dance Nsing in the Warren Wright. Eddie Arcaro will ride Real Delight in the Warren Wright, and Bubbley, if the latter goes, in the Pollyanna. Joe Kramer is training the Brookmeade Stable string until the arrival of Preston Burch. The latter is expected here Friday . . Dan Sabath, Chicago turfman, has arrived from New Jersey with two horses. . Jockey Doug Dodson has been engaged to ride for the Brookmeade Stable in the Stars and Stripes Handicap on July 4 . . Charles Nahm, who races some horses in partnership with Louis Augustus, stopped off for a day. He is en route to London, England, on business . . . Trainer Howard Hoffman, of the Ada L. Rice stable, expects to start the good sprinter, Pet Bully, within the next few days. Pet Bully won the Washington Birthday Handicap at Santa Anita last winter . . . The filly Happy Deb, who was unplaced in the Miss America Stakes and was shipped to Lexington, is back again for a try at the Pollyanna. . .Jockey Anthony Ferraiuolo has been signed to ride the Knollwood Farm stables Rommel in the Whirlaway Stakes. Harry Lurie, veteran pari-mutuel clerk, proud of becoming a great grandfather for the second time. Harry spent the winter working as clerk at the New Orleans Fair Grounds. . .The heat wave played tricks on Stanley, the Post and Paddock chef. He had carved a horse out of a block of ice for table decoration, but it came out minus a tail and other parts which had melted away. Many of the patrons were wagering it was a Gnu. . Richard Waggoner, stable agent for Mrs. E. E..D. Shaffer and assistant to trainer H. H. Battle, came in with the Shaffer thoroughbreds, Sweet Patootie and Fiddle . . . The recent electrical storm played hob with the telephone lines hereabouts, and Louie Meen was seeking a covey of carrier pigeons to transport the Continued on Page Forty-Five r r ei tc to lo * is cl i ■ l J J. 1 * J L *■ , * E m u K a i, 1 l ° , . ket "J g" the J™ the J. , Ji, Wl Z~ 3 zelle „i ZZ ~°, r* Si* s" Stars 5 Day, Park to ton to i„ in y« m cl 10 a, and box a a is is ar are Arlington Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three entries from the racing secretarys office the press box . . . Harry Golden says that losing money in the telephone boxes here tougher than trying to beat the slot machines at Las Vegas. Those Hawaiian shirts being worn by Messrs Thomas and Dougherty in the racing secretarys office are dazzling the boys into entering their horses early. . . O. Bryant has sold the two-year-old . Argufy to C. Swan. . .Larry Thompson has shipped Some Bid to River Downs . . . Jockey Willie Garner had a winner open- ing day. Willie admits to 45 years of age I ...Morton M. Weil got in with Ken, ] Gloriette, Wing Admiral, and Centenaire, l the property of Mrs. E. Kendall Weil. . . Best Doings bled in his last outing here and will be sent to the farm to be rested up until the Fair Grounds meeting at 1 New Orleans. . .The handle and attend- * ance opening day was the best of any initial program since 1946. . .Paul Dono- ; ghue, who served as chief of police at the Hawthorne track many years ago, c out renewing old acquaintances. r I Tio Ciro, who finished second to To Mar- r in the Massachusetts Handicap, was an t arrival from New England with others in Cherry-Oca Stable string. Others in h band that came in charge of trainer e J. Barker, are Cuore, First Nighter, o Challengo, Chureo, Vivians Best, Saint c Georges and Chance Wise ... Aesthete, re- r cently second to Hushaby Baby in the Ga- r at Aqueduct, has joined the Hal Price v Headley string . . . Other Headley runners 1 coming from Lexington are Fair n Square, Sampan, Reprimand, Rico Vino, Libba, Pa- f poose, and Revolve . . . Nominations for the and Stripes Handicap and the Hyde Stakes, both to be run Independence j will close Saturday. a at h A bright sun and a glistening Ariing- d Park was waiting for Morris Leonard e: today when he made his first appearance 7 70 his box near the finish line in over a year. Mr. Leonard, an executive of the *1 mammoth Balaban and Katz theatre chain, has been battling illness for that long stretch. Today he showed his spunk 1; his cheerfulness, gaily arriving at his a in a wheel-chair and unmindful of fi cast on his back. The line of Leonards E long and fabled in Chicago, and there s few of that powerful generation left, w
