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Hooper Stable, 25 Strong, Checks In at Arlington Unit Includes Nine Eligibles For Future Stakes Features Invasion of the Arlington Park stable area began Friday with the arrival of 25 thoroughbreds owned by Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Hooper and under the care of trainer Ivan Parke. From now until its June 24 opening, the Arlington scene will become, busier each day as many of the nations finest runners begin training for racings richest summer program. During the 35 days of sport at the northwest suburban plant and the subsequent 30-day Washington Park meeting, about ,000,000 will be offered in stakes and overnight purses. Arlingtons mile and one-eighth main track and nearby mile training track will be available to horsemen beginning Monday morning, track superintendent Clarence Brinkman announced. He said the main grass course and the new turf training strip will probably be ready in a few weeks. The Hoopers string, fresh from the current Garden State Park campaign, includes nine eligibles for future stakes events. Heading the group is the imported Olympic, named for both the 60,000 Arlington Handicap on grass and racings1 "Miracle Mile," the 70,000 Washington Park Handicap. Topping the list of 17 well bred two-year-olds in the group is the chestnut filly, Fierce. This Pry-Fierceness lass took top honors in the Gulfstream- Park Juvenile Stakes and f inisried second in the Singing Tower Stakes during the same meeting. Named for the two 50,000 Arlington and Washington Park Futurities are three colts, Quizzed, Leampia and Intelligent the latter pair were sired by Olympia and two geldings Cold Water and Teddys Ace. Among the Hoopers promising, but untried, fillies are Olympia Lou, Miss Olympia and Miss Alabama. All are eligible for the nations two richest juvenile distaff events, the Arlington Lassie and Princess Pat Stakes at Washington Park. Each race is expected to gross 05,000. The older thoroughbreds in the contingent are Altruistic, Appliable, Hoop Mood and two other foreign-breds. . .Royal Moccasin and Muckle Hart. Altruistic, six-year-old Challedon — Noble Gift gelding, showed well in middle-distance and turf competition during the 1953 Arlington-Washington meeting. Appliable, Hoop Mood and Hoop Ring all visited the winners circle during their juvenile campaign here last year. Hooper, resident of Coral Gables, Fla., and a prominent construction contractor throughout the Sunshine State, has raced his horses and those of his wife at the coordinated Arlington-Washington meeting for the past nine years. Their first big stakes winner here came in 1946, when Parke saddled Education for a victory in the Washington Park Futurity. Since then such proven runners as Colosal and Olympia, sire of several current Hooper juveniles, earned their share of Arlington-Washington gold. Last year, Eddie Sue was the most prominent Hooper winner here, taking top honors in the Artful Stakes. In all, the string accounted for 16 wins during the 1953 summer session, a major part of the 46 Victories amassed in top-level competition throughout the year.
