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JUDGES STAND LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, HI., June 21. — Arlington Park often in the past has been admired as "the most beautiful race course in America." And the remodelled version really must be seen to be fully appreciated, as any of the 10,000 who inspected it during the "open house" on Sunday can tell you. you. It It does does not not surprise surprise us us that that you. you. It It does does not not surprise surprise us us that that Benjamin Stein has been congratulated upon achieving the most sumptuous effect ever for a sports organization. There is a battery of 16 escalators, traveling at the lively rate of 120 feet per minute, which make the paddockand any of the plants five levels readily accessible. There is attractive new modern decor in all the lounges and approximately 5,000 more seats, bringing the capacity to about 30,000. There are endless new "tote" lines, that on the third floor of the grandstand extend 320 feet, perhaps the longest at any course in America. The fourth floor now provides terraced seat steps, and the parking facilities have been extended. Some 15,000 more cars now may be parked on the clubs own property. It is proposed further that on Saturdays and July fifth, patrons parking in the more remote reaches of the grounds will be offered free bus transportation to the stand areas. Additionally, emergency repair crews will patrol the lots to mend flats and repair any minor motor difficulties. You may be sure this touch is not lost on the patrons. The: parking charge has been held to 25 cents, with no tipping permitted. In fine, Arlington now stands as one of the most magnificent race courses in the world and those who attend the Thursday opening of the 35 days meeting are in for a very pleasant surprise. AAA The festive pastime of attending hunts meets has attained some vogue here in the Midlands and Arlington Arlington Park Now Remodelled, Modernized Escalators, New Decorations at Illinois Plant Renew Hurdle Stake at Arlington Park Course North Side Track City Within a City Park for several years has made a contribution to this phase of the sport by staging a special hurdle stake. It is the only event at the North Side course decided under NSHA regulations. And we learn that Ben Lindheimer will renew it sometime during the upcoming meeting. Col. Campbell Brown, of Tennessees Iroquois hunt set, has a file a total of 20 candidates for this affair, several . from Camden, S. C, and others from such unlikely places as Holland, Mich., Detroit, Louisville and Chicago. Frankly, we havent the foggiest notion of the form at hunts meets, but we are told that the-one-to-beat for the Arlington race is a seven-year-old chestnut mare called Ginny Bug, belonging to Detroits Harry S. Nichols. Even though she could only be third to another candidate, Dr. John B. Youmans Storm Hour, in last seasons gruelling Iroquois Memorial. She is by an obscure stallion called Red Bug, out of Virginia Viva, a daughter of the onetime champion chaser Dan IV. Then there is Storm On,, a stripling: of 13. The Illinois board has a regulation which automatically retires horses from running past the age of 12, but, of course, jumping over things in the process is different, and apparently this rule does not apply to the one event on the calendar through-the-field. Another candidate of passing interest is Colonel V.„ for the reason he is among the best bred horses anywhere. He is by Taj Akbar, runner-up to Mahmoud in an Epsom Derby, out of Picmeup, a mare by the celebrated Son-In- Law. It it rarely these days tntf latters name appears so close up in a pedigree. AAA Arlingtons 550 acres have been appropriately likened to "a city within a city." There is 24-hour medical, fire and police protection, with a hospital equipped for emergency surgery, two ambulances, metropolitan fire fighting equipment and a 50-unit trailer park for horsemen. Everything possible is done to make the horsemen as well as the public comfortable. The club provides free and current movies on a terrace before the stands each Tuesday and Thursday night, along with free refreshments. Recently, it provided a number of baseball diamonds, horseshoe courts and recreation rooms having TV sets, snack bars and ping pong tables. In the jockeys quarters are a library, more TV sets, a tiled steam room, arid billiard tables. Of course, there are restaurants everywhere. And 24-hour telephone service. Possibly there are race tracks as elaborate and independent on municipal facilities, but there can be none any more so. It is staggering just to estimate the overhead of maintaining so vast a plant in its complete detailed fashion. AAA Turf ana: Did you know there was a Worth Jockey Club operating a course on the scene of the present Lincoln Fields in the gaslit 90s? The purse minimum was 50. . . .Tanforan will offer more than ,000,000 at its meet of 42 days, opening September 13. . . . "What else one may say of the English racing authority, it does not play faces. Lester Piggott is the latest to feel its wrath. Though he looks cherubic, he is not exactly of the seraphim on horseback at times. . . . Another ante of 50 is due July 15 for eligibles to the fabulously rich The Garden State. . . . The TRPB staffs combined average of inves-gative experience is 15 years per man. The esti-Continued on Page Forty-Four I JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Fifty-Two mated cost of sustaining its operation is about 00,000 a year, and it is one of the best investments the sport ever made. . . . Noor has a half-brother called Nahar, who is attracting attention for his good form in France this season. . . . Willie duPonts Chessian, a half-brother, by Polynesian, to Chevation, won at the first asking at Delaware Park the other day. . . . Max Hirsch also trained On Watch, maternal great grandsire of High Gun. . . . The Queens Aureole apparently runs more generously this season than he did at three. . . . Virus abortion is closely allied with the influenza virus. . . . The Aga Khan plans to offer the three-year-old Lizzano, a brother of Happy Laughter, for sale in this country.
