The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-30

Beautiful Essex Park, the famous
 course a'ong the Rock Island road.
 and conveniently accessible with the
 best Of special train service, opens
 this afternoon for it's portion of the
 spring racing engagement, and the
 opening will be an suspicious ohe | The Business MeHa League the body
 which represents the business inter
 estS of the city relative to all matters | looking to the entertainment of our
 yLsitors, will attend Essex this after
 noon on a special train Mayor Me.
 Clendon will be there to we come the return of racing 10 this beautiful
 park. And the toWnspeople generally will respond and spend an early | spring outing at one of the most bean. u'ul plants in the South. Already
 ;here have been any number of luu- rheon and dinner parties who have
 engaged tables in the club for the
 afternoon and evening, and the social side of racing at Essex will be one of
 the particular features of the meeting there Yesterday several hundred club cards were distributed, these be- | ing passed out on the reeommenda-
 tion of members of the IBusiness Mems League With card requirement,
 the club will be protected against the presence of any except those whom add Co the social feature of the rae ing game.
 The csFd6 for the Essex Park club are given out on the recUnmenda ion Of some member of the Business Mems League. Nlsitors who are en- titled to receive them may receive the courtesy by application TO the man cement oi the hoto S, who are all themselves members or officers of the leanle, and who have the authority 10 cooperate with the Eg5er Park man nRement in this matter. ft is the ue- sire of the management to make the club feature one which both citizens end visitors VIII learn to appreciate 'f'rom bhc office of the Essex tark management in the Arkansas National Bank building this morning these cards may Do received.
 Racing Secretary Fred Gerhady
 Aas offered a splendid bill for the opening The races arc well filled, ihere being the full twelve permitted il three of the events. ten in two ether races and eight in the feature event. The big feature OI the after noon, of course, is the Harry A. Jones handicap, which has old Rosebud at the post Of honor With l30 pounds to carry which has Omar Khayyam, one
 of the favorites for the classic Ken ttclly Derby and which has Hanovia and Whirling run and others of that class of good handicap horses.
 The Close at oaklawn.
 The Oaklawn meeting closed auspi cionsIv. l. was bt successful meef- ing throusaout, and the last day brought an honor 10 W. R. Mizen that
 ,eldom comes to a racing stable, for
 for the third time within six days his
 good handicap horse Robert Bradley ] took possession of a track record. IL
 had been just six racing days before when Robert Bradley clipped trac-
 ton of second off Of Aldebaran's rec
 ord for the mile and seventy yards; then last Saturday he took the En lparrasbment record of l:'i2 1 5 iog t' mile and an eighth down Co :5t, And yesterday he lowered the mark oi Tivoli For the mle and sixteenth to
 ! +5 3-5 from 1;46 lS. The latter lnarlJ had stood for years. JocAfy Murphy rode him in each ol the cyou .a l&nd rode perfect races Robert Trad llcy in each oe the eyen:g made aN his CWn pace under the rating ct this splendid jockey, was never headed at iGny portion of the three races, and Irel CT felt t4e cut of the whip in any e them. The performances are re-
 merkable in many respects. One tur, authority stated that Robert Bradley ! robably was the first horse In Amer
 a 10 hold three records at one track 2 different distances, and most cer-
 tainly the first horse to take three scords In three consecutive races.