Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse racing was just an occasion for gambling. All the top-notch race horses in the U. S. spent the winter resting up for the spring meetings in Maryland and Kentucky. Only castoffs were sent to the winter tracks. But since the founding of California's Santa Anita Park and its attractive $50,000 Derby and $100,000 Handicap, winter racing has become classy...
...outdone by California, Florida's Hialeah Park followed suit three years ago with the inauguration of the Widener Challenge Cup race, a $50,000 handicap event named after its president, Joseph Early Widener. This year the Widener was scheduled for the same day as the Santa Anita Handicap. Last week these two rich handicaps brought the winter racing season to its climax...
...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...
Eager to see Stagehand, No. i money winner of 1938, repeat his performance of the fortnight before, when he snatched the McLennan Handicap from Warren Wright's promising Bull Lea in a spectacular stretch finish, 21,000 racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer...
...110th Street, Manhattan's sveltly starched Fifth Avenue passes the extreme northeast tip of Central Park, plunges into a new world-the teeming, Spanish-speaking slums, or barrio, of Lower Harlem. Mainly inhabited by Puerto Ricans, with a peppering of Cubans, Spaniards, Filipinos, Mexicans, it is one of the poorest, noisiest, brightest, muskiest, most musical and least written-about foreign quarters in Manhattan...