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Three Arlington Stakes on Week-End Stars and Stripes, Hyde Park To Head Fourth of July Card i Matron With Expected Gross Of 5,000 to Bring Holiday Activities to Close Saturday By J. J. MURPHY ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, HI., June 28. A richer stakes program and higher purses in many overnights will highlight the third week of racing at beautiful Arlington Park starting Monday, with the Stars and Stripes Handicap on Friday, July 4, heading the list of star-studded races. The richest stake of the week will be the nineteenth running of the Arlington Matron, a one mile test for three-year-old fillies for 5,000 added, to be raced on Saturday. This event probably will gross 5,000, which will mean about 0,000 to the winner. Sharing honors with the Stars and Stripes, a 5,000 added mile and a furlong race for three-year-olds and upward, to be run on the turf, is the 0,000 added Hyde Park stakes for two-year-olds, over the five and one-half furlongs route. While there is a big week-end of rich races coming up, the first part of the week was not overlooked, and some very good races with purses up to ,000 for overnight events, is on the program. The Hyde Park on Friday will be the fortieth running. It was inaugurated in 1884 at the old Washington Park, 63rd and Cot- tage Grove, in Chicago, and was run there prior to 1929. It was not run from 1904 to 1928. In point of years, the Hyde Park is the oldest stake staged at Arlington Park. Last year, the HydePark was run in two divisions, with Oh Leo taking one part, and Princess Lygia the second division. Some great horses have won previous Hyde Park races, such as Domino 1893, Dick Welles 1902, Cavalcade 1933, Misty Isle 1940, Alsab 1941, Free For All 1944, and Bewitch 1947.- This years Hyde Park brings together some outstanding two-year-olds. There were 55 nominations for the 1952 running and among them are 29 eligibles for the Arlington Futurity and six fillies named for the Arlington Lassie. The Futurity eligibles include Mr. Paradise, Fiddle, Wildcat Sam, Oil Gusher, Lead Pad, Happy Carrier, Sids Pride, Royal Grandeur, Partners All, Ricacho, Blenriam, Isasmoothie, If I, Meditate,. Louis "K," Silver Jet, Thaxter, Boo Who, King Pin, Udo Reinach, Smackover, Brookhaven. Paytu, Mr. Good, Possess, Instyle, Take One. Mighty Moment, and A. Gem. The Arlington Lassie eligibles are Madame Arcati, Blue Jeans, Biddy Jane, Time To Kahl, Gifted Gal and Take One. Top nominees in the 1952 event are W. H. Veenemans Happy Carrier, who won the Primer and the first division of the Lafayette Stakes at Keeneland, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Daniels Ace Destroyer, winner of the second division of the Bashford Manor. Veeneman has another stakes winner in Dean Cavy, captor of the Joliet. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Collins have nominated Biddy Jane, winner of the Rancocas Stakes and the Miss America. King Pin, second to Happy Carrier in the Primer, has been nominated by Hal Price Headley, and Harry Allsmans Blenriam, third in the same race, also was named. Mr. Paradise, owned by Mrs. Ada L. Rice, beat four other Hyde Park nominees in a neat win last Wednesday. He finished ahead of Ace Destroyer, Brookhaven, Mighty Moment and Possess. The Daniel stable has another good juvenile, Yea Bama, who beat Continued on Page Forty-Four Stars and Stripes, Hyde Park, Matron at Arlington This Week Continued from Page Three Calmuet Farms Meditate and Red Speed at Arlington on June 23. The Stars and Stripes was run over the skimmed track from its start in 1929 until 1950, when it became the nations premier race on the grass and now is the traditional July 4th stakes at Arlington Park. This will be its twenty-fourth running. Volcanic, from the Walmac Farm stable, heads a list of 26 nominations for this classic. This grass veteran has won the last three runnings of the Washington Park Meadowland. Brookmeade Stable has named Going Away. Hasty House Farm has a strong trio represented in Inseparable, Ruhe and Seaward. The latter has won the Ben Ali, Clark and Lincoln Handicaps this year. Two Argentine-bred horses, Cherry-Oca Stables Cuore arid Palatine Stables Chicle TX have been named. Others include Rokeby StableSy County Delight, victor in the Queens county Handicap; Cherry-Ocas Tio Ciro and Oil Capital, owned by Hasty House Farm and Mrs. Harry Trotsek. Calumet Farms Real Delight heads .the record-breaking list of 58 nominees for the nineteenth running of the Matron. It will be the first of nine Arlington-Washington future stakes scheduled for 1952. Nominations closed last November 1 with 130 three-year-old fillies named, an all time high for this race. There were 103 second payments on February 1, 1952 and the final payment was made May 1. Real Delight, already winner of five stakes this year, including the Cleopatra on opening day at Arlington Park, the Ashland, Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eyed Susan and Coaching Club American Oaks, will certainly take over the role of favorite. Other nominees include Jouett Shouses Cinda, winner of the Cherry Blossom, Colonial Handicap, Betsy Ross Stakes and Regret Handicap; Maine Chance Farms Rose Jet, the 1951 two-year-old filly champion of the year; Clifford Mooers Last Greetings, winner of the Santa Ynez and Santa Barbara Stakes in California; James Cox Bradys Landmark, winner of the Prioress, and Mr. and Mrs. T. ;M. Daniels Free For Mie, winner of a division of the Ashland Stakes. Some of the outstanding two-year-old fillies of last year eligible for the Matron include: Cary C. Boshamers Miss Nosoca, Brae Burn Farms Star Enfin, Brandywine Stables Place Card, Browriell Combs Bella Figura, Duval Headleys Crownlet, Louis B. Mayers Princess Lygia, C. V. Whitneys Recess and Gerald P. Stricklands One Miss. Edward M. Goemans has named his two European imports, Royal Spear II. and Royal Rainbow. The Wednesday feature for next week is the Wishing Well Handicap with a purse of ,000. It is an invitational handicap for fillies and mares three-year-olds and upward.
