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I Six Fillies and Mares in Marica Purse . 1 "A 1 ARAB ACTRESS Will carry eo-topweight of 119 pounds in the Marcia Purse at Arlington Park today. Both Arab Actress, " Gala Fete Carry 119 Good Call, Winner of Last Two at Lincoln, Also Will -Attract Play at Arlington ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights,. 111., June 28. The Marica Purse, a six furlong race for fillies and mares, will bring, together a half dozen popular distaff performers of stakes caliber. It will go as the sixth event of the eight-race program here Tuesday and carries a ,000 purse. Top-weight in the Marica goes to Walmac Farms Gala Fete and Mrs. H. J. Damms Arab Actress. Each will carry 119 pounds. Louis Lee Haggin n.s Sally Catbird, Greenacres Stock Farms Sherry L. and H. J. OSheas Good Call get in at 110, while Mrs. L. J. Herrmanns Bloom has 105 with the apprentice allowance. Arab Actress dead-heated Ruhe for second in the Lincoln Handicap behind Sir Mango. Earlier in the Crete meeting she outdistanced The Eagle to win at a mile and ran second to Pomace in the La Salle Handicap. Cook on Arab Actress William McKinley Cook, who has been aboard Arab Actress in her four 1954 starts, will have Tuesdays assignment. The four-year-old Burg-El-Arab Center Stage filly breezed thre-eighths over a fast course in" :37 this morning. Good Calls recent six furlongs win at the. Crete oval was the second straight of that meeting. Earlier, the Case Ace Hi Fling four-year-old ran out in the Crete Inaugural and third in a Keeneland sprint. Johnny Adams will do the riding in the Marica. The filly went three furlongs in :34 handily on the training strip on Sunday. Sherry L., four-year-old Occupation Unmasked Miss, was fifth to Good Call just a month ago. Her only previous effort this year was good for third. Both were six furlongs affairs at Lincoln Fields. A five furlongs breeze Sunday was completed in 1:00 with fractions of :23 and :47. Apprentice Robert Gorman has been given the mount on Bloom. Tfie five-year-old Sun Again Lark Flower mare wound up seventh in a six-furlong test at Lincoln Fields and has been resting since. Sundays three furlongs work was completed in :3iys breezing. Bloom is trained by Harry Trotsek. Sally Catbird, four-year-old daughter of Alibhai On the Level, competed in two sprints at Delaware Park before being shipped here. She finished far out of contention in her last try early this month. Trainer Joe Kramer clocked her a half-mile breeze in :49 Saturday.
