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Iceberg II. Vies With Smoke Screen Each Carries 122 In Highland Park 1953 Grass Champion Won Last at Monmouth; Six in Arlingtons Geneva Purse ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, HI., June 29. One of the most interesting programs of the young Arlington Park season will be offered Wednesday as the meeting builds up momentum for the rapidly approaching Fourth of July week end. Wednesdays co-features, the ,000 Geneva for three-year-olds and the Highland Park for older horses, have attracted small but well-balanced fields. They will be run as the fourth and seventh events, respectively, on the nine-race card. Highweighted for the seven - furlong Highland Park afc-122 pounds are W. Arnold Hangers 1953 grass champion, Iceberg II., and Reverie Knoll Farms Smoke Screen. The Duntreath Farm entry of Stop Gap and Dixie Flyer will carry 116 and 111 pounds, respectively. Martin and McKiri-neys Night-Phara will pack 111 pounds. Rounding out the field are Sam E. Wilsons Bugledrums and W. W. Stones Sand-top, 110, and Virginia Shwab, Jr.s Vixen Fixit, 105. Iceberg n. arrived here last week from Monmouth Park, where he won a mile allowance on the grass two weeks ago. The veteran Johnny Adams will become acquainted with the Chilean import in Wednesdays sprint. The six - year - old Espadin Bellagamba horse did a half-mile breeze over a fast main track in :48. Iceberg H. will figure, prominently in Arlingtons grass program. He, along with Smoke Screen, have .been named for Mondays Stars and Stripes Handicap. The South American finished third in that feature last year. Smoke Screen hasnt started since early March at the Fair Grounds. He ran Second to Grover B. in the New Orleans Handicap. "Trainer Frank Sanders worked the five-year-old Drawby Aphrodite gelding five-eighths on the training strip Monday in 1:00. Don Scurlock will do the saddle chores Wednesday. Stop Gap finished third in two recent Detroit sprints, while Dixie Flyer ran second to Mimi Mine at a mile here last Saturday. Sand top will be making his first start since the Jamaica fall meeting. The five-year-old gelding worked three-eighths in :35, handily, Tuesday on the tramming course. Second to Sir Mango Bugledrums will be starting for the first time at the current meeting. He comes off a second to Sir Mango in the Fleming Memorial, and before that a third to Pomace and Arab Actress in the La Salle. The six-year-old Chance Sun horse worked three furlongs in :34, handily, Monday. Robert Permane will ride Bugledrums in the Highland Park. The five-year-old Pharamond II. Shine ONight mare, Night-Phara, has a win over Precious Stone and Ruhe at seven furlongs as her last effort. She will be piloted by Lay ton Risley, who has handled the mare for the past seven starts.. Vixen Fixit, five-year-old mare, will make her first start since finishing seventh in a KJrete sprint two weeks ago. The six -furlong Geneva will bring Eugene Constantins Bushers Beam, second in the Warren Wright Memorial, up against Dixianas Roman Spy, Sunny Blue Farms Resplendent, Golden Maxim Stables Dania, C. F. Cherrys Sleepy Mabel, and Reverie Knolls Siskey. Resplendent, top weighted at 117, comes off a six-furlong win at Lincoln Fields. Johnny Adams will ride the Revoked colt. Jimmy Combest will try again With Bushers Beam. The filly Dania, another recent sprint winner at Crete, will be handled by Dave Erb. Roman Spy hasnt started since Churchill Downs, where he took honors in a six and one-half furlongs sprint. Siskey, with Don Scurlock up, and Sleepy Mabel havent made the charmed circle for quite some time. Siskeys best effort was a fourth to Spy Magic at Lincoln. Fields, while Sleepy Mabel was fifth in her only outing at that meeting.
