Word: hialeah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring the race closer to the stands, President Vanderbilt last week contemplated shrinking Belmont's traditional racing strip to 1⅛ miles-the same size as the tracks at Saratoga, Hialeah, Washington Park and Arlington Park. Whether the proposed track will be ready for the 1940 spring meeting is problematical. The fate of the Widener Chute, also unpopular with railbirds because the horses start almost a mile from the stands and finish at an angle, is as yet unknown...
Still the messages kept coming. One reported that 38 persons, one a woman, had gone down. This was signed off with "Okay, big boy." Another message charted a strange position: "Eighteen days out of Calcutta, 40 miles south of Hialeah." (Forty miles south of Hialeah race track lie the Everglades.) After several hours: "Don't speak English." Last message, toward 5 a. m.: "Will sink in two hours. Ten inches of water in my room...
Most publicized jockey of the year is cocky little Don Meade. Reinstated last December by the Florida Racing Commission after a three-year suspension for betting against his own mounts, Jockey Meade, 1933 Kentucky Derby winner, made a sensational comeback this winter, booted home 91 winners at Hialeah and Tropical Park. Last week, while penitent Mr. Meade made headlines because of his successful plea for a riding license on the "big apple" (New York tracks), an obscure fellow-peewee named Johnny Oros quietly displaced him as the leading jockey...
...outrode his most experienced rivals at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, then moved on to Bowie to lead the field there as well. Last week, on closing day at Bowie, Jockey Oros put on as exciting a show for Maryland racegoers as Don Meade had ever given Hialeah patrons. With a leg up on six mounts, he won three races (including the Daily Double), finished in the money with the other three. His triple brought lis string of victories to 105 since January 1-14 more than Meade, his nearest competitor...
...Hialeah Park, Widener Day had its troubles too. The ballyhooed duel between Samuel Riddle's War Admiral and Maxwell (no relation) Howard's Stagehand fizzled when the pampered Riddle colt developed a slight fever three days before the race-when every seat in the Park had been sold. But Florida turf fans did not lose interest either...