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...thoroughbreds. Santa Anita's opening, on the Saturday after Christmas, has become as red-letter a date on the U. S. racing calendar as the opening of Belmont, Pimlico or Saratoga. Santa Anita, despite its rich purses, has not had the winter field to itself. Florida's Hialeah Park, with its $50,000 Widener Cup race, gets many of the East's best horses. This week, when Santa Anita opens its seventh season, for the first time it will face competition from a track in its own neck of the woods...
...Miami's Hialeah Park and Tropical Park, winter visitors, converging from all over the country, took to the cute little Puss-in-boots as movie fans took to Shirley Temple a few years ago. Oldtimers as well as race-going recruits ignored form charts, played Flinchum regardless of his mount. Booting home winner after winner, against top-notchers like Eddie Arcaro and Don Meade. he was the sensation of the Florida racing season...
...citizens have stopped wondering. This week officials of the newly organized Nicaraguan National Charity Sweepstakes will draw from the 3,000,000 tickets sold in the U. S., will pay off on the outcome of the Widener Cup race, to be held at Florida's Hialeah Park March...
Seen from the air, this go-square mi. patch looks like one sprawling bailiwick, set in the flat expanses of citrus groves, bean and pepper and tomato fields that extend southward to the swampy Everglades. Actually it is divided into three parts. There are 1) the residential suburbs: Hialeah, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, South Miami (where many a homeowner last week had moved into his garage-apartment, rented his house for the winter season); 2) the city of Miami, lovely in segments but raw-ugly in sum, with its own tolerant government and its flamboyant, perennial "reform" Mayor...
...Hialeah, three dog-tracks and one jai-alai (Cuban handball) fronton in the Miami gambling area, betters on a single "poor Monday" last week wagered $800,000; since the winter season opened had poured in a record $25,000,000 (including the takes at both Hialeah and Tropical Park horsetracks...