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♦, — Arlington Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Notables Attend Arlington Opening Trainers Luro, Kelley Return Here Lincoln Handle Up, Crowds Down ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, HI., June 22. — The major portion of Illinois 1953 racing season got off to an auspicious start here today. The . . weather man was kind to both management _«!P i§i and patrons, the tem- 111* perature being a sooth- m§t 3p-ing 80 following a series SL . fit of almost unbearably hot days. The parklike Wj% H paddock area was never Xmj„ W greener with the trees i ;M, in full foliage and the mw M flowers in full bloom. jHH|9 . Gov. William Stratton, KKJlll of Illinois, and Mrs. ___K__M____Efl_3 Stratton headed a list of civic and social leaders visiting the Post and Paddock Club. They were greeted by the new president of the Club, George Russell Carr. Mr. Carr is only the third president in the 24-year-old history of the club, he being preceded by Paul Gardner and Laurance Armour, both of whom have passed on. Among Mr. Carrs guests for the opening were Admiral and Mrs. Francis P. Old, Mrs. Robert Carr, Jr., and Mrs. Carroll Harding. Among others with reservations were Mr. and Mrs.. Leonard Florsheim, Col. and Mrs. Leon Mandel, Paul Serdar, Illinois Racing Board chairman, and Mrs. Serdar, Major and Mrs. Ednyfed Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Armour, Jr., Mrs. Sidney Gardner, of Belmont, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Hunt Smith, of Louisville; Mrs. Lolita Armour Wilder, Mrs. Otto Lehmann, Mr. and Mrs. John Cuneo, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gallagher, James Kemper, recently appointed Ambassador, to Brazil, with Mrs. Kemper; Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Plamondon, Jr., and many others. Horatio Luro, the dashing senor from Argentine, Js making his first appearance here in a number of years. Has 18 horses in his care for a number of different owners . . TPaul Kelley is another returning to the Chicago sector. Paul will have 21 head to look after when the full complement gets in from Delaware Park. . . -The favorite mare, Sickles Image, was due to arrive from Detroit with eight others in the stable of Clarence Hart-wick... Owner A. H. Warner brought eight from Toronto Veteran turfman Willie Crump is here but has no horses in his care as yet. May get a few later. . . Morton M. Weil will arrive from Delaware Park Tuesday with eight head . . . Trainer Kay Jensen received eight more and now has 13 in his charge Former trainer Harry Golden may become affli-ated with a prominent stable here. And now lets clean up on Lincoln Fields. The pari-mutuel increase was about 3% per cent over that of last year, and the attendance was down about 4V_ per cent. We thought the management pennywise and pound foolish in a couple of instances. The first was holding the entries up until late afternoon seeking a few extra horses and thereby losing considerable publicity; the second, placing a good secondary attraction following instead of preceding a stake race; and the third, the failure to. hold show betting on a six-horse race in which one runner was even money, and another 8-5. The even money shot, Oil Capitol, was unplaced. However, that is the policy of the powers that be, and it is their decision. . .Ruhe, who was cut out to be a good horse but was plagued by "seconditis" last year, ran one of his best races in the closing day feature, and that race also, proved that Bay brook should be confined to sprinting ranks. He might develop into a topnotch short distance horse, but we fear he is not going to have much luck with topnotchers over a route. Johnny Adams led the Lincoln riders with 47 winners. That is three more than he rode at the 1952 Lincoln session. John Heckmann nosed out Ken Church by one winning mount for second place. Church and Heckmann tied for third place last year with Skoronski finishing second . . . Logo erased a turf record held jointly by four horses when he ran seven furlongs * in 1:24 in the last race of the day. " W. H. Bishop got rid of a couple of horses before moving to Arlington when he sold Rustum to C. H. Karl and Glade Well to * the Avalon Stable. Incidentally, the man from Anna, 111., seems to have made a nice claim when he picked up Very Special... L. J. Wilson, former trainer who is now . manager of the Green Acres Stock Farm in Michigan, brought Sherry L. to run in the Continued on Paje Thirty-Nine Arlington Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three Artful . .Flyamanita, who has been making futile stabs at stakes around New Jersey, is expected here this week. Robert Hart, Sportsmans Park mutuel manager, got back from Florida. . .Entries for the first day racing at Arlington Park closed right "on the eye" at 10:00 a. m Marfan VanBerg dropped off en route from Detroit to his home in Columbus, Nebr Trainer D. Herber shipped Battle H, a double winner on the grass at Hawthorne, and five others, the property of F. E. Harper, to Centennial at Denver. . .Br ezno was a late-scratch from the eighth race Saturday and money wagered on him was refunded.
