Word: hialeah
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...Fort Lauderdale (where, in the lull of the eye's passing over, residents were amazed to hear birds singing). Hundreds of beach cabanas were blown away, and many a majestic palm was blown down along Palm Beach's famed millionaires' row and at Miami's Hialeah race track. In the 'Glades farmland, citrus, ramie, bean and tomato crops were badly whipped...
...circuit shivers to a halt at Charles Town, W. Va. It is the end of the line for gyp (short for gypsy) horsemen and their broken-down nags. Hibernating in the stalls there, the gyps nail up blankets and newspapers to keep out the cold. The swank comforts of Hialeah and Santa Anita are not for them. But this year, for the first time, the gyps went south for the winter. A race track, refurbished lor them, opened in the pine woods 16 miles from Tampa. Even its name was magic to shivering gyps: Sunshine Park...
...half-dozen times, the morning of the race, Horse Trainer Jimmy Jones went out to test Hialeah Park's dry but spongy racing strip. Finally he decided that the best place was not along the rail, but about 15 feet out from...
...handlers gave him a soft diet of bran mash and hay, and nothing to do all day. Then gradually he was brought up to form with long jogs and short workouts. A fortnight ago, at Florida's Hialeah Park, the Big Train raced again. He won-by a few inches. Last week, with 130 Ibs. on his back,† the brown gelding did it again. Neither race was an important one, but they were impressive warm-ups for the winter's big two: the $50,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah next week and the $100,000 Santa Anita...
Simply everybody was in Florida, it seemed. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. escaped easily, returned to Washington with tan and plans for the next War Bond Drive. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague kept an eye on the horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian...