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Myrtlewood, Cleopatra on Saturday Two Stakes Start Holiday Week End Handicap Sprinters Entered In Former, While Sophomore j Fillies Will Seek Other Race - ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 26. Two of the most important, handicaps of the Arlington Park meeting, -the Myrtlewood and Cleopatra, will high- light the second week of the 35-day meeting starting Monday. Both events are up for decision Saturday, opening half of the big Fourth of July week end. Once again, the nominations to these events far overshadow last years lists. The same may be said for the July 5 twin features, the Pollyanna Stakes and Stars and Stripes Handicap. The fourteenth running of the 0,000 added Myrtlewood has attracted 25 handicap performers; four more than last years running. The race is a six-furlong sprint for horses three years and older. Top nominator to the Myrtlewood was Hasty House Farm with four . . . Hasty Road, Sea O Erin, Pomace and Torch of War. Other stables with "multiple subscriptions were Maine Chance Farm with Flight Cloud and Smart Apple, and Reverie Knoll Farms with LeMonde and Mon Pharo. Other Myrtlewood candidates include Harry N. Bads Sir Mango, J. H. Dunns Oh Leo, H. G. Bookmans Happy Go Lucky, Louis Lee Haggin IIs Homestake, Mrs. J. L. and L..J. Knights Baybrook, Walmac Farms Gala Fete, B. W. Landys Spur On, winner of the Doris Day Purse on opening day, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mucklers Heutel. Baybrook finished third in last years running, while Happy Go Lucky, Sun D"id and Pomace were "also rans." Familiar Hasty House Performers Hasty Road, winner of the Preakness and his stablemate, Sea O Erin, are familiar performers. Hasty Roads victories in the Arlington and Washington Park futurities last year contributed most to his record two-year earnings of 77,132. Sea O Erin defeated his stablemate in the Prairie State Stakes last summer, and has continued his winning way this year. He has annexed the Fountain of Youth Handicap at Gulfstream. Park and more recently the Lincoln Fields Peabody Memorial. The five-year-old gelding Pomace is Hasty Houses top handicap star this year with four victories, the Magic City, Phoenix a division of the Crete Inaugural and La Salle. Torch of, Wars best effort this year came when he won the New Years Day Handicap at Tropical Park. Sir Mango has won five of his last six starts. A second place firiish to Pomace occurred in the Magic City. Since then, the Gilded Knight colt has a division of the Crete, the Fleming Memorial to his credit as well as the Lincoln Handicap. Homestake will be remembered for his George Woolf Memorial victory last year, and Oh Leo for his 1951 Futurity duelswith Calumet Farms Hill Gail. The latter captured the Arlington feature, but the order was reversed at Washington Park. The 5,000 added Cleopatra, first big filly feature of the meeting, lured 26 capable of the mile feature. This is three more than the 1953 renewal. The race is loaded with stakes horses. Queen Hopeful, the darling of Hasty House Farm, is the stakes veteran of the lot. She became an Arlington favorite by winning last years Lassie Stakes and repeating in the Princess Pat. The little Roman lass has finished out of the money only once in 23 starts. Queen Hopeful has the Orchid Stakes and Florida Oaks at Gulfstream and Pimlicos Black Eyed Susan to her credit. Also in her past performance are seconds in the Jasmine, Ashland and Kentucky Oaks. Lewis J. Tutts Jenjay, winner of the Ashland is another Cleopatra nominee along with the Columbian Oaks victress, Fascinator. The latter is part of the Maine Chance Farm triple nomination, along with Divine Actress and Incidentally. The latter ran third in the Prioress at Jamaica. Others named include Mrs. John D. Hertz Happy Mood, dead-heat winner of the Acorn Stakes, Black Gold Stables Lady Cover Up, Mrs. H. B. Delmans Nest Ce Pas, Hal Price Headleys Garb, Mrs. V. E. Smiths Lor-Jane, Mrs. E. P. Taylors Question Time and Wood view Stables Jay Jay Gee. All have finished in the money in filly stakes this year.
