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Arlington Park J- By J. J. Murphy : By Zeus Shows Good Form in Recent Outing Can Run on Any Kind of Track and Distance May Meet Iceberg II. in Stars and Stripes ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, 111., June 24. It could well be that Ed Laskers By Zeus, recently arrived at this track from California, mierht dpvpinn into quite an equine personage hereabouts this year. The son of Count Fleet is an all round "workman." Can run on a wet or dry track, go any distance from six furlongs up to two miles or more, and has raced well on the turf. Making his second start of the season here Thursday, By Zeus was a bang-up- third to sprinters who ransix furlongs in 1:10, beaten two noses. Matter of fact is that he would probably have been the winner in a few more strides. Proof that By Zeus can run on the grass and go a distance was established a year ago last March, when he won the Satr Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita over the gruelling one and one-half miles distance on the greensward and came from eleventh place in a sixteen-horse field to accomplish the feat. The horse -was bred by Mr. and Mrs. Lasker, she the former Betty Jane Greer of motion pictures, and has been campaigned almost exclusively on tracks in the Los Angeles area. Out there he was trained by Buddy Hirsch and is being handled here by Jake Lowenstein. The San Juan Capi- " strano was By Zeus last grass race and his last heavy track performance was in the Santa Anita Maturity of 1954, when he was second to Apple Valley. He was later fourth to Mark-Ye-Well and Rejected, the last Hawthorne Gold Cup winner, in the slop. Kelly and Hartack Go to Delaware By Zeus has also been named for the Stars and Stripes Handicap, an annual Independence Day feature at this course. In this he will likely tangle with Iceberg n., the 1953 grass champion, as well as with Mister Black, Mark-Ye-Well, Blue Choir, and a number of others. Neither St. Vincent or Stan were nominated for the Stars and Stripes, which is at one and one-eighth miles on the turf. . . . Trainer Tom Kelly is , going to Delaware Park this evening and will saddle the good mare, Cerise Reine, in the New Castle there Saturday. Jookey Willie Hartack will go along to do the riding but wDl be back Monday to resume his fight for the Arlington. Park jockey championship. . . . Another rider slated to spend Saturday at Delaware is Eldon Nelson, who is going east to ride Lavender Hill in the New Castle. He, too, will be back for Mondays racing bill. Lea Lane, the speedy three-year-old filly, owned by Charlton Clay, is reported to be having knee trouble and will likely be shipped to Kentucky to be rested Recently wrote that Dark Grier had not won since taking a division of the Primer last season. No wonder. He broke a leg about three weeks after the running of that race. . . . Harold Bockmans good stakes runner, Happy Go Lucky, is reported to be coming along nicely. Is now six years old.". . . Bernard J. Fallon, president of Washington Park, recently returned from an extended tour of the Scandanavian countries and is expected to be in attendance Saturday for the running of the Laurance Armour Memorial. . . . Jockeys Guild man, Ike Bassett, is not very big, but his brother, Arlin, also an ex-jockey, is even smaller. When we remarked on the fact, Ike came back with "you should see our younger brother." . . . Miss Dundee, a two-year-old filly, owned by C. Cowan, has arrived from Lexington and is in charge of Kenny Noe. Burr Engaged for Hyde Park Stakes Jockey Charlie Burr has been engaged to ride Tommys Jet in the Hyde Park Stakes to be run July 4. . . . William J. Schmidt has purchased Teddys Review from O. and A. Spitzer. . . . Francis Knecht, owner of Cabbage K., has turned that one over to Del Carroll to train. . . . Schooling of horses at the starting gate will get under way at Hawthorne Monday. Classes will be held every day next week and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays thereafter . . . Walter McCarron, Cook County coroner, was a visitor Thursday. Was accompanied by Mrs. McCarron and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schoennenman, he is the general traffic manager for Continental Can Co. . . . Among other visitors was Howard Simpson, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Col. Campbell H. Brown, of the Tennessee Historical Commission and an expert on hurdle racing, came in from Nashville for Fridays . jumping race. He is president of the Tennessee Thoroughbred Club and secretary of the Midwest Hunt Association. Bud Burmester, of St. Albans Stock Farm, Fort Worth, Texas, writes that he is desirous of getting in touch with apprentice Harrell Bolin and Trainer R. Graham. . . . The first motion picture show of the. season was staged in the grandstand area Thursday evening for the amusement of race track folk. Among those enjoying the film was Mrs. B. F. Lindheimer and trainer H. A. Jones. . . . Jockey Alphonso Coy was an arrival from New Jersey with the two horses shipped in from that sector by F. E. Fitzgerald. . . . Jockey Al Popara was to leave for ThistleDown Friday evening to ride Blue Lem in the Ohio Derby. Will be back Sunday. . . . Jockey Willie Carstens has been engaged to ride Brookwood in Mondays Pollyanna Stakes here. . . . The veteran jockey, Jack Chestnut, was an arrival frpn River Downs.
