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Ship Ship Iron Iron Liege Liege to to Pimlico Pimlico Tomorrow; Tomorrow; Arracado Arracado Scores Scores Midwestern Midwestern Upset Upset Comes From Last * Place for Easy Win Whips Attempt, Cynthia Sue In Sportsmans Route Test; Three Winners for Meaux By J. J. MURPHY SPORTSMANS PARK. Cicero. 111.. May 6. — Jockey Clarence Meaux, 20-year-old jockey from Abbesville, La., went into a tie with Willie Collier for riding honors at this meeting when he steered Arracado. an outsider, to an easy victory in the featured Midwestern Handicap here this afternoon. It was the second longshot winner of the day for Meaux. who won the opener, with the neglected High Lama. Arracado, owned by F. and W. Haynes and winner of his last start here, came from last place to win going away by two and one -half lengths from Attempt, with Jack Fieselman aboard. He paid 7.00 and ran the mile and an eighth distance in 1:54J3. Third place was taken by Cynthia Sue. with the favored Braseda finishing sixth. The nine-race program, run in sunny weather and oil a fast track, attracted a crowd of 11.900. Meaux rode his third winner of the day astride Hard-Sea in the ninth race. Last In the Field Noble Birth and Our Country set the early pace, witn Arracado in last place in the 10-hor.se field at the end of the first quarter. At the conclusion of the first halt mile, Noble Birth was still showing the way, with Our Country second and Attempt third, and Arracado having moved up a notch to be ninth. Down the back-stretch. Noble Birth, with Skoronski per-miting him to race freely, opened up a lead of four lengths, while Our Country was dropping back. Attempt and Arracado. who was running strongly, ganged up on Noble Birth after leaving the backstretch and entering the home lane Arracado was in front. Arracado had no trouble drawing away from Attempt in the last furlong and the latter was just as easily second over the good-closing Cynthia Sue. Braseda, the favorite, was close enough Continued on Page Fifty-Two Arracado Scores Upset In Midwestern Handicap Comes From Last Place to Down Attempt Over Sportsmans Route Continued from Page One in the early running, being in fourth position. He showed but little stretch power, however. High Authority and Pasha Saied. recent winners at this course, were always outrun, while Noble Birth stopped badly in the stretch. B. H. Wise saddled his second winner of the day when h© sent Validon to the post in the sixth race, the New York City Ballet. The distance was six furlongs, and Validon, who was coupled with Howdy Man, won by a half-length from Ban Sen, while Lynette was third. The entry was favored. American Pluck, who is also trained by Wise and, like Validon, owned by Simpson and Wise, won the fifth event, the Maria Tallchief. American Pluck, a seven-year-old gelding, found an opening on the stretch turn to come through and beat Elliot L., with King Ruff, the favorite, fourth in the six and a half furlongs event. Validon was ridden by Ronnie Baldwin and American Pluck by Jack Fieselman. Clarence Meux went into a tie with Bob Baird for second place in the jockey standings when he had the long -priced High Lama home an easy victor in the opener. The gelding won by four lengths from Muscles. The Daily Double paid 2.40 when Future Reward, an odds-on favorite guided by Gilbert Hernandez, took the second. Future Reward changed hands via the claiming route after the event, being taken by Johnson and Price for ,500. It marked the first score here for Future Reward, who was the only horse to win four races at Oaklawn Park.
