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Sketched at Aqueduct BY CLEM. Samuel P. Booth is a genuine lover of racing. With John D. Hertz, of Yellow Taxi fame, he owns the Leona Stock Farm and its racing stable. Also he is president of the Interboro News Company of New York, the countrys largest distributor "of newspapers and magazines. Along with a host of other friends of Hertz, Booth is heavily interested In the Yellow Taxi Corporation and New Yorks Fifth Avenue Motorbus lines. Like all sensible men Sam recently took unto himself a better half. They were at Aqueduct last week to sec the Leona Farms Tick Tock win, also to witness the running of the Second International Special. Following which they were accompanied to the steamship pier by Hertz, Charlie Levy, Jack Keene, Martin Nathanson and many other friends and bade bon voyage to London and Paris. While at Newmarket and Longchamps, if Sam sees a colt he thinks good enough to win the Kentucky Derby, he will cable trainer Hastings to bed down another stall in the big barn at Belmont Park where Sams and Johns horses are to winter. This barn belongs to S. D. Riddle and Man o War lived there during his racing days.
