Word: gulfstream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while Hialeah was going full blast, a third track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...
Last week on opening day, when free tickets were broadcast, 15,000 spectators turned out. The rest of the week, while the stables were filled to capacity, a comparative handful of customers rattled around in Gulfstream's big steel grand stand. Young Jack Horning, who had sunk $1.400,000 in the venture, wondered if the racing commission's first thought had not been best. It was. After four days Gulfstream Park closed. But not for good, insisted Owner Horning...