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" ■!""" |W.""" ■"™ JUDGES STAND By Charles Nation Feminine Touch Aids Arlington Show Unusual Interest in Equipoise Weights Free Running Valor as Sire Prospect Han Day at Races for Chicago Visitors ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, HI., June 18. So far as we know, Arlington Park is the only one of Americas 60-odd race tracks that is operated by one of the fair sex. For the present at least, the active management of the elite North Side Side park park is is in in the the capable capable hands hands of of Miss Miss " ■!""" Side Side park park is is in in the the capable capable hands hands of of Miss Miss Marjorie Ann Lindheimer, whose official capacity is assistant executive director to her father, currently recuperating from an illness. Of course, it is "B. F.s" show, so to speak. He set the stage. The policies are his, and he is very well informed on everything that goes on here at Arlington Heights. But at an age when most girls prefer to lead lives well insulated against such realisms as accounts, taxation, the direction of a. staff of more than 1,000 employes, and so on, Miss Lindheimer attends to these and myriad other other details details and, and, we we have have a a notion, notion, thor- ■"™ other other details details and, and, we we have have a a notion, notion, thor- thoroughly enjoys it. Her father declares, "She is as hard a worker as I have ever seen and is well versed on all phases of race track operation. I think she would be an asset to any track in America." Miss Lindheimer is thirtyish, was born and educated here in Chicago, and Northwestern University vaccinated her to be a journalist, but it did not take. While her instructors were coaching her on how not to mix metaphors, her mind was engrossed in the affairs of Arlington and Washington Parks. She liked accompanying her dad on his daily rounds of these tracks, soon came to know every facet of their operation, and the executive directors thinking on the problems of management. Matter of fact, she has developed an almost canny faculty for knowing what her father would do in any situation that arises in running a race track. She insists, "There is nothing mysterious about their operation. As in any other business, the public must first be considered, to the exclusion of anything else. Then come the people who put on the show, the horsemen," incidentally, adding that, "It is for the latter reason that we have placed so much emphasis on backstretch conditions." The way things are going here at Arlington, we would say journalisms loss has been racings gain. Handicapper Ivan Thomas on Monday will release weights for the 0,000 Equipoise Mile and these assignments will be of extraordinary public interest for the reason Spartan Valor, contemporary racings number one box office attraction, is expected to make his Chicago debut in this stake a week from Saturday. In the East the Helis horse progressed to the point he was asked to carry 132 pounds middle distances. And he won an accolade from Jack Campbell as the only horse to comapre with champions of an era known fondly, if rather imprecisely, as "the good old days." Arlington and Washington several years ago abandoned the 130 pounds maximum weight in handicaps. But Spartan Valor will oppose some horses here he has not beaten, whether or not this is simply because they have not met, and Thomas may not feel obliged to ask him to carry a great deal of hardware. If it interests you the heaviest weight carried by an Equipoise winner was Sun Agains 127. His stablemates, Coal-town and Armed, both were debited with defeat in the race carrying 132. The average trainer does not think any more of a pound of lead than he does of a pound of ,000 bills. And yet the best remembered horses are those who, like Equipoise, Exterminator, Grey Lag and Discovery, earn and accept staggering weights, and win with them. ■ Spartan Valor has been in training many months, but his familiars say that he is actually in better flesh now than he was back at Hialeah. He could start for 00,000 worth of stakes here and at Washington Park this summer. Quite apart from how he fares in his engagements, he strikes us as a splendid prospect for the stud when he has concluded his racing career. For he is a remarkably free-running horse who can run, and handicapper Campbell observes that, unlike many front runners, he has unflinching courage when he is challenged. He does not wear blinkers but usually goes with a pony he does not appear to need to give him confidence. Arlington is developing more turf enthusiasts this season, through the race bus service from Milwaukee, Waukegan, Racine and Kenosha. Heretofore it has attracted a few motorists from Milwaukee, but this is the first meeting at which an objective approach to developing patronage so far north has been undertaken. Additionally, we learn that both Arlington and Washington this summer will be included in the schedules of sightseeing busses, which .serve vacationers and convention visitors. "A day at the races" will be proposed at each meeting. Racing may make more friends in this way. Arlington and Washington are among the finest courses in America and we should think that if the visitors do not find going racing here enjoyable they simply do not care for the sport. Turf ana: Dance Nsing has found a new way to lose. It seems that an exercise boy who takes violin lessons was practicing before the colts stall the afternoon of the Peabody Memorial. Upset him so he sulked in the race. Dance Nsing is a misnomer, for he is obviously no music lover. . . . Pur Sang is the first foal sired by Side Boy, and the best up to now. . . . Claiborne will offer Keeneland buyers a colt by Ambiorix, from the Oaks winner, Blue Grass, bred from a mating suggested here. . . . The overflow of Arlington Park horses are stabled at Washington. A number of Hawthorne barns now are given over to the trotters. . . . Bob Carey plans reroofing the Cicero stand. . . . A. B. Hancock, Jr., is expected this week-end. Blue Jeans gives him a rooting interest in the Pollyanna. . . . The Colorado Commission has ruled that the State Breeders Association will be recognized as the official registration body for horses foaled there. Centennial plans a number of races for Colorado- breds at the meet opening July 10. . . . Ben Jones personally devotes a great deal of time to Bubbley, frequently accompanying her to the track mornings on a pony. . . . W. H. Bishop has sold a number of his string in recent days. . . . The Breeders Sales Companys Bill Evans will distribute catalogues here. ... A Cleopatra starter, Crownlet, may be in foal. . . . The recent Lincoln winner Strada is a daughter of the good mare, Monel. . . . R. W. Mcllvain is very pleased with the first foals by Billings, whom he incidentally considers a better horse than is Volcanic, observing that, "Volcanic is a stretch runner, Billings could sprint or stay." w
