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Died. Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts...
Trainer Jacobs is adept at picking races and riders as well as race horses. His entries are rarely overmatched. He has no contract jockey, chooses riders who are "hot," i e., enjoying winning streaks. Jacobs' horses are usually entered in the name of his wife. Mrs. Ethel Jacobs consequently last week became the leading U. S. owner in number of races...
...Midwest's greatest race track. Purse for the eighth running of the Classic was $35,000. That the Arlington Classic will eventually be worth $100,000 and the most celebrated horse race in the world was the proud prospect offered to Chicago last week by the Arlington Park Jockey Club's Founder John Daniel Hertz. Discussing the track's policy and progress, Mr. Hertz announced that since 1929 Arlington Park has repaid all but $700,000 of the $5,000,000 debt it incurred seven years ago. When the $700,000 is written off, Arlington Park, only...
...unique generosity of the Arlington Park Jockey Club Chicago is indebted, not to the desire of its members to make a social splash, but, indirectly, to Racketeer Al Capone. Arlington Park was built in 1927, the year Illinois racing was legalized, by a California promoter named H. D. ("Curly") Brown. It lost money. In 1929 Capone offered to buy the track for $1,500,000. Promoter Brown jumped at the offer. Because the deal might well have meant the end of Illinois horse racing, Mr. Hertz, whose Reigh Count had won the Kentucky Derby in 1928, asked him to call...
...sold, the members will divide $980,000 and still have 210,000 shares, for which the offering price is $8.75 per share. Appropriately, the stock was being sold last week by August Belmont & Co., founded in 1837 by the same precocious young German who became President of The Jockey Club, gave his name to New York's Belmont Park...