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Balmoral Opens Meet on Monday First Leg of Coordinated Session of 97 Days With Arlington and Washington HOMEWOOD. 111.. May 10.— The Balmoral Jockey ClubJMonday opens what is expected to be the biggest spring meeting in Chicagoland turf history here at Washington Park. The 30-day session will continue through June 15. The 1957 chapter of Chicagos "Triple Crown" operation of Balmoral. Arlington and Washington Park will present 97 days of continuous high-class racing, offered in the most modern surroundings and accommodations. The coordinated session will continue through Labor Day. September 2, when the 00,000 added Washington Park Handicap will ring down the curtain on the Homewood tracks own meeting. During that time over ,500,000 in stakes and purses will be offered, headed by a stakes program of 38 events totalling ,405,000 in added money. The first "all-weather clubhouse and grandstand interiors in America will be unveiled when Balmoral-at -Washington Park swings open its doors Monday. All interiors of both the clubhouse and grandstand now are completely equipped to provide complete air-conditioning in warm weather and heat when it is cool. The strongest and most competitive thoroughbred colony in the three -year history of the coordinated meetings will be on hand and poised for Mondays opener at Homewood, or will have been bedded down by the time Arlington Park sends the three-way operation into high gear on June 17. 1 :45 Post Time Every Day President Russell L. Reineman announced to-day that post time for the entire 30 days at Balmoral would be 1:45 p. m.. this to be in effect week days. Saturdays and the. Memorial Day holiday. Mondays opening-day feature, first of Balmorals 10 stakes, which will total 55,-000 in added money, is the 5,000 added Coronet Stakes at six furlongs for three -year-old fillies. Two 0,000 added events punctuate the 30-day meeting. They are The Chicagoan, one-mile headliner for three-year-olds, June 8. and the Balmoral Turf Hanicap on the grass, closing day, June 15. Balmorals Memorial Day feature this year will be the 0,000 added Domino at six furlongs for three-year-olds. There will be no weather problem at Balmoral thanks to the new air-conditioning and heating installation which will provide a haven of comfort for fans during both the Balmoral spring meeting and the regular Washington Park meeting later this summer. The grandstand also has been newly decorated and newly lighted, with new color -photo murals of outstanding horses and jockeys. Other improvements include a new auto gate at the extreme north end of the track on Halsted Street, and a new, aluminum gooseneck rail for the main course. Mondays Coronet field stacks up as Continued on Page Forty -Nine Balmoral Ready for Opening Of Meet Monday at Homewood ] ■ Continued from Page Three "first rate," with at least 10 fillies ready f Wilson and McDermotts Jolie Fille, Mrs. *• W. H. Veenemans Woodlawn and Soto and z Berkes Lori-Eli. Next Saturdays 0 ,000 -added La Salle e Handicap at six furlongs for three -year -olds and up is expected to mark the 1957 n Chicagoland debut of E. Gay Drakes brilliant Swoons Son, winner of last years Arlington Classic and American Derby, with the possibility that River Divide Farms 1956 American sprint champion also will get to go to the races in next Saturdays La Salle. Most of the nations more prominent stables, including Hasty House, Walmac, :, Jacnot, River Divide, E. Gay Drake, Spring g Hill, Fred W. Hooper and D. E. Loveman ; _ will race out the spring-summer campaign 2 at the three Chicago tracks, to be joined a by the powerful Calumet Farm and Maine e Chance Farm come Arlington in Jim*.
