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Sportsmans Park I By J. J. Murphy LaSalle Cap Ushers in Balmoral Meeting Serdar Clarifies Daily Racing Schedule Swoons Son, Dogoon, Judy Rullah Arrive SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, 111., May 11.— Of the three stakes to be run during the opening week of the Balmoral Jockey Clubs 1956 meeting, the one with the most tradition is the LaSalle Handicap, the first days feature. The LaSalle was inaugurated back in 1937, whereas the Coronet, to be run Wednesday, and the Continental Turf Handicap, to be run Saturday, were placed on the list by the heads of the new jockey club last year. The LaSalle has been a sort of an on again-off again feature. It was not run in 1938 nor from 1949 to 1954. In the latter year it was revived when racing moved back to Lincoln Fields, and it was one of the few stakes retained by the new management last seasohIn 1955 Scent, a California runner, beat Smoke Screen and Spur On. Dell Jessop, who is riding at Sportsmans Park, steered the, winner of the 1947 LaSalle, Take Wing, who at nine years was the oldest horse ever to win the race. Although it is for three-year-olds and up, it has never been won by a three-year-old. The Illinois Racing Board, through- Paul Serdar, chairman, announced that but eight races would be staged daily during the Balmoral Jockey Club meeting with the exception of Wednesdays and Saturdays. Nine events may be conducted on those days. However, the heads of Balmoral were notified that if they cared to | put on a ninth race on Mondays it would be approved by the board providing it be for Illinois -breds exclusively. . . . Even if 30 minutes is taken between every race at the Balmoral session, the final event, bar unforeseen delays, will be off at 5:10 p.m„ inasmuch as first post time is advertised as being 1 :40 p.m. ... It is expected that Doubledogdare, voted the two-year-old filly of 1954, will make her first appearance in Wednesdays Coronet Stakes. Turnwin Stable Buys Router Sito Several sales were consummated here this morning: William J. Schmidt sold Shifty Dora to Mrs. E. C. Moran, William Hal Bishop sold Equal Strife to Marion VanBerg and Buster Jim to T. M. Pruett, and the L. and M. Stable sold the two-year-old Diamond Star to John . McDowell. ... The Turnwin Farm stable purchased the distance runner Sito, who was second to Streaking in Endurance Handicap No. 3 from the Woodview Farm, and J. E. Poellien will do the training. . . . T. McDer-mott has announced that he will ship Our Henry and Radiant Fox to Detroit. . . . Charles Kerr is sending Intelligent and other racers in his charge to Hazel Park. . . . Jockey Robert A. Dever will head for Hazel Park Sunday. . . . Among other owners shipping their stock from here to Detroit are B. A. Thompson and W. K. Coleman. Trainer A. G. "Lex" Wilson has arrived at Washington Park with two favorites of last summers Chicago racing, Swoons Son and Dogoon. They were accompanied by five stablemates. ... Another favorite to get in is the three-year-old Judy Rullah, winner of last years Arlington Lassie Stakes. She is in the care of trainer Strother Griffin, who brought a half-dozen others. . . . Trainer Sam Infantino has shipped Ultimatum to River Downs. . . . Vasco Parke phoned from Burley, Idaho, that his wife, who recently underwent surgery, is very much improved and that he expects to be back for the opening of the Balmoral meeting. . . . William Fitzgerald, chairman of the Washington State Racing Commission, recently passed through Chicago and conferred with Teddy Cox. Several Units Shipping to Omaha Tom R. Westrope, who is president of the Arkansas division of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association, will send his horses to Omaha at the end of the current meeting William J. Schmidt has purchased Sea Siren, a recent winner here, from Mrs. E. C. Moran Mr. Rafferty, an unbeaten two-year-old son of Bolero, owned by Don Logan, of Mercedes, Tex., will race at Washington Park in charge of trainer Claude Bourlarid Jr. Mr. Rafferty has won three straight ~ races. . . . Trainer Roy T. McDonnell is planning on sending his horses to Omaha. . . . Jockey Willie Cox, who has been the hottest rider here during the past week, has changed his plans and will remain for a few days of the Balmoral meeting instead of going direct to Detroit. He and Mrs. Cox are expecting an addition to the family Note that the railroad serving Arlington Park has been deiselized. Thats good news for the race track commuters who for years have suffered riding the antiquated coaches. . . . Roy Dickerson, who has been absent from the starters stand since being stricken with a kidney ailment on April 27, returned to his position Friday. His assistant, James Thomson, did a splendid job of substituting.
