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...Hialeah racetrack, at Miami, is controlled by immensely rich and patrician Joseph Early Widener of Philadelphia who owns 16 Rembrandts, a cemetery for his deceased racehorses at Elmendorf, near Lexington, Ky., and has Tautz of London come over twice a year to see to his clothes. Vice-chairman of the U. S. Jockey...
Club, Mr. Widener is head of the Belmont Park Association, strongly interested in racing at Aqueduct and Saratoga, adviser to John D. Hertz and other Chicagoans in the restoration of Illinois racing to an honest plane at Arlington Park. Transforming Hialeah from a rundown track into the liveliest winter racing resort in the U. S., he caused $1,500,000 to be spent on improvements. Last week Mr. Widener was indignant over rivalry which came from a new Miami racetrack called Tropical Park, controlled by two Manhattan sports named Bill Dwyer and Bill Gallagher...
When the Florida State Legislature passed, over Governor Doyle E. Carlton's veto, a bill to legalize parimutuel betting, Sports Gallagher & Dwyer last spring formulated plans for a track to compete with Hialeah. They bought a disused dog-track at Coral Gables, got Frank J. Bruen, onetime Hialeah general manager, to run it for them. When the State Racing Com-mission met last fortnight, it cut Hialeah's customary racing season of 45 days to 36, gave the new track a non-conflicting schedule of 37 days, starting on Dec. 26 before the Hialeah season and resuming after...
...Lightning Bolt, dark bay gelding owned by Mrs. John Hay (Mary Elizabeth Altemus) Whitney: with Vice President Curtis watching, the $14,300 Florida derby, climax of the Miami Jockey Club's 45-day meeting at Hialeah Park...
...pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly bed-ridden gangster had taken an airplane ride to Bimini (bootleg base), a boat trip to Nassau, attended the Sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami, the Hialeah races. "It is evident," commented Judge Wilkerson, "that someone is lying...