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Last week, while Hialeah was going full blast, a third track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...
Dapper Joe Smoot, who had built Hialeah in 1925 and started the building of California's Santa Anita six years ago, had a harder time than he expected getting his latest racetrack in operation. He had to appeal to the State Supreme Court before he could get a permit from the Florida Racing Commission, which felt it was unsound for two tracks to operate at the same time in Greater Miami. After the permit was finally granted, Promoter Smoot decided to pull out. Contractor Horning, by this time infected with Promoter Smoot's enthusiasm, took over the track...
Time Marches backwards through the European scene of the past decade in an interesting reel which might well be called "Downing Street Blues," and which is considerably better than the racetrack melodrama "Speed to Burn," also on the current bill...
...William Ziegler's homely little two-year-old colt, El Chico: the $13,500 Junior Champion Stakes, his seventh victory in seven starts; at the Aqueduct Racetrack, Long Island. No. 1 juvenile of 1938, El Chico has earned $84,100 for his owner, who bought him for $2,700 at last year's Saratoga yearling sales...
...Kentucky, they were Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler and Senator Barkley, who as Administration leader in the Senate is "Dear Alben" to the President. Grinning bumptiously, the young Governor plopped himself down between the President and Mr. Barkley in the official automobile. At the Latonia racetrack in Covington, before the speechmaking began, "Happy" Chandler got to the front of the platform for a lot of wisecracking and folksy gesturing until suppressed by Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President's turn came, he frankly listed the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Kentucky by the New Deal, flatly said...