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FRANK BARNETT— Sends out Hal Price Headleys Recover and Aesthete in todays renewal of the Artful Handicap at Arlington Park. Spartan Valor Assigned 132 for Equipoise Mile Rated 10 Pounds Over Woodchuck For Saturdays Arlington Stake ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 24. — William Helis Jr.s Spartan Valor, generally conceded to be Americas outstanding handicap horse, has been allotted 132 pounds for the 0,000 Equipoise Mile, which will be the feature attraction here Saturday. The five-year-olds burden will be 10 pounds more than that to be carried by the high grade sprinter, Woodchuck, while that one in turn has four pounds more than To Market, who is in with 118. Spartan Valor will be making his first appearance before a Chicago gathering in the Equipoise Mile, which will be having its twelfth running. He has won his last seven starts. His only defeat of the year was in his first try when he was beaten by Woodchuck in Florida at Tropical Park on January 1. Following are the weights: Horse. WL Spartan Valor 132 Woodchuck 122 To Market 118 Oil Capital 115 Seaward 114 Volcanic 114 Andy B. W. 114 Be Fleet 112 Ruhe 112 General Staff 112 Pet Bully 110 Inseparable 109 The Gink 109 Abbe Sting 108 Horse. Wt Black George 108 Sabaean 108 Dr. Ole Nelson 107 Bloody Step 107 Torch of Iran 107 Royal Mustang 107 Coffee Money 106 Cacomo 105 Valquest 105 Recline 104 Golden Birch 103 Can Locate 103 Yaleman 103
