Word: dromo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the philosophical Foreign Minister took a dozen other foreign ministers to the Hipódromo de las Américas, Mexico's horse track backed by U.S. expatriate "Sell 'em" Ben Smith and President Manuel Avila Camacho's late brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Result: Host Padilla, Colombia's Foreign Minister Alberto Lleras Camargo, Venezuela's Carraciolo Parra-Perez each lost 50 pesos on a long shot. Nicaragua's Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa won 500 pesos ($103) on two races...
...year renewable concession on 180 acres of Government property 15 minutes from the heart of Mexico City. In return, Pagliai's Jockey Club de la Ciudad de Mexico, operators of the track, promised the Mexican Army ten thoroughbreds every year there is racing at the Hipódromo de las Américas...
Better for Bettors. The Hipódromo has already cost Pagliai and his associates 7,000,000 pesos (approximately $1,400,000 ). Designed by Manhattan Architect John Sloan, it will out-glamor California's fabulous Santa Anita Park, generally considered the world's most ornamental race track. Snuggling at the foot of the snow-capped Sierra Madre Mountains, Sloan's dream track will have a three-tiered grandstand, four-tiered clubhouse with betting windows and cocktail bars on each level and a super-gaudy ballroom with a black marble floor, silver walls and shell-pink ceiling...
...many U.S. race tracks the clubhouse restaurant faces the paddock so that fans can watch the paddock odds-board while feeding. For the Hipódromo's customers Architect Sloan has shown even more consideration. The club's eight oval bars and four restaurants all face the track so that customers can watch the races as well as the tote board...
...last week no reservation had been made for Whirlaway, the horse Promoter Pagliai wants above all for the Hipódromo's biggest race: The May 30 Handicap de las Américas, worth 100,000 pesos to the winner...