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- wn Balmoral I By J. J. Murphy Primer First of 15 Stakes at Arlington Park Erb Rode Winners of Both Divisions in 54 Sixteen Escalators at Northwest Side Track V" ASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, 111., June 16. With the opening of Arlington Park in the offing, the public relations boys for Ben Lindheimer courses are i becoming more end more effusive. This morning six pages of "copy" on Arlingtons inaugural greeted us as we took our accustomed place in typewriter row. And well it did, for we were just about at our wits end for material, this being one of those lazy, sunny days when a fellow would rather - take a swing in a hammock. We forthwith will submit some of the highlights from the data to hand. We We find find that that the the Balmoral- Balmoral- i , . We We find find that that the the Balmoral- Balmoral- - wn Arlington-Washington Park meetings are now known as the "Triple Crown of Racing;" that 15 stakes will be decided during the Arlington Park session; that the meeting between Stan and St. Vincent, generally regarded as the two outstanding grass runners of the nation, may come about in the Arlington Handicap, July 30; that 16 escalators will be in working order at Arlington ; that racing secretary Pat Farrell expects a full field for the Primer, the opening-day headliner; that Lalun, winner of the Kentucky Oaks, will make her first Chicago start in the Cleopatra; and that the Arlington session this year, is expected to be bigger and better than ever. First Juvenile Stake Opening Day y Also learn that Monday will mark the thirteenth running of the Primer, which was first decided in 1941 and was taken by Alsab, who was the Swaps of his day. The Primer is at five and one-half furlongs for two-year-olds and the time record for the race is 1:03. established by Company B., two years ago. Company B. was later sold the Murcain Stable for a fancy price and we do not know what became of him. He did not start last year, and to our knowledge has not been postward this year. Last season Dave Erb, much in the limelight at present, rode two winners in the Primer. The race was run in two divisions and Erb, in one of them, beat Top Traffic, one of the favorites for Saturdays Chicagoan,- with an Illinois-bred named Dark Grier, who never again reached such heights. In fact, Dark Grier has not been in the money since, although he has started but few times. One Primer winner, Wisconsin Boy, went on to take the Arlington Futurity. He was never any great shakes after that "and he is now at stud. Mrs. Vasco Parke is here from Declo, Idaho, for a visit with her husband, Vasco, the well known Chicago racing official. . . . Trainer Claude Bourland has shipped Ky. Admiral, Ky. Rainbow, War Par, and Joy Canoe to a ranch near San Antonio, Texas. . . . Jockey Dave Gorman will be at Arlington Park to ride for the stable trained by the Agentinian, Horatio Luro. . . . Mr. ahd Mrs. Ephriam Winer, owners of the Hill n Dale Farm, are in for a visit from Baltimore. Their runners are trained by J. P. Keezek. . . . Miss Mary Fisher, owner of a couple of promising runners here in charge of Jack Hodgins, arrived from Detroit and will remain for the opening of Arlington Park. Indianans who find it necessary to journey to Chicago tracks for their thoroughbred racing have adopted Washington Park as their "home track." About 15 per cent of the automobiles in the parking enclosure each afternoon bear licenses of the "Hoosier State." Thoroughbred racing has not been staged in Indiana since shortly after the turn of the century. At one time the Roby track, just across the state line from Illinois, was -most popular and some good thorough-breds raced there. Due to some quirk in the law the Roby track was shut down, but soon re-opened on the same site under the name of Lakeside Park. Although harnss and automobile racing are very popular in Indiana, the runners have never cavorted at a course in the state other than at those close to the boundaries of Illinois. Indiana has no pari-mutuel wagering law. Point Torsina for Added Money Events Torsina, winner of the Rose Leaves Stakes at Detroit, is expected to compete in some added money races at Arlington Park. . . . Frank Butzqw, who has been resting up on the farm owned by his son, Dr. Robert Butzow, came out of hiding for the Illinois . breeders meeting and to take in a few days of the sport. . . . During the past few days Messrs. Lindheimer and Reineman have received many phone calls from patrons congratulating them on the speedy manner in which the racing strip has been brought back to normal following many days of rain. The gentlemen credit Jerry McPherson, track superintendent, with performing "the miracle." Mikel Farm has a suckling colt at Lincoln Fields who, in the parlance of the turf, is a "good doer." Orphaned through the death of his dam, the youngster consumed all the milk a goat-could provide and now. aside from the nourishment furnished by a cow, drinks several quarts of specially prepared milk each day. . . . The Chicagoan is certainly an appropriate name for a featured stake to be run in this district. It is the only added money feature in the area pertaining to the "Windy City," with the exception of the Chicago Handicap at Hawthorne. Incidentally, the first Chicago Handicap in 1927 was won by a horse named Chicago.
