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United Nations Feature To Be 7500 Minimum 0,000 Guaranteed to Winner Of Atlantic City Turf Classic ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 3. The United Nations Handicap, climax of the "Triple Turf Classic," the series of grass races won last year by Iceberg II., the national turf course champion of 1953, will carry a minimum value this year of 7,500, with 0,000 guaranteed to the winner. Inaugurated last year as the feature of the 50-day meeting at the Atlantic City race course, the interesting series of three turf course events attracted the leading grass runners of the country. The first two races, the American Bred Stakes and the Foreign Bred Stakes, will be run at one mile and a furlong on Wednesday, September 15. Each of the attractions for three-year-olds and upward will carry added money of 5,000. However, this year the two races will be stakes allowance events instead of weight-for-age as they were in 1953. The first four horses to finish in each will again be invited to participate in the United Nations Handicap on Saturday, September 25, with no additional entry fee. It is this race at one mile and three-sixteenths that carries the 0,000 guaranteed to the winner. In making this announcement of additional monies plus the change in conditions for the first two events, president John B. Kelly of the Atlantic City Racing Association said that he believed these would create even more interest in the "Triple Turf Classic." The one-mile grass course, 100 feet across, is the widest in the entire country and a perfect test for the turf runners. Racing fans will remember that Mrs. E. duPont Weirs Royal Vale won the event for foreign breds last year, while her Royal .Governor accounted, for .the American Bred to make a monopoly of the qualifying rounds. However, in the handicap it was a different story, with W. Arnold Hangers Iceberg n. the winner and Royal Governor settling for third, with Royal Vale fifth.
