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H D CURLY BROWN DEAD Builder of Arlington Park and andOther Other Tracks Passes Away Awayat at Glendale Calif GLENDALE Calif May 5 H D Curly Brown 67 one of the most colorful and turbu ¬ lent figures on the American turf died here late Sunday evening at a sanitarium where he had been a patient for several months Browns health failed in 1928 when he suf ¬ fered a slight stroke while attending the races at the Hawthorne track in Chicago After selling his interest in Arlington Park Brown retired to the seclusion of his 2600 acre Brown Shasta Stock Farm on the slope of Mount Shasta in northern California and for a year seemed to be well on the road to recovery His love for the turf however lured him to Tijuana where an extensive stable of his own breeding was being raced and he suffered a relapse in the spring of 1929 1929Ordered Ordered by his physicians to abandon his residence at Brown Shasta Farm a magnifi ¬ cent home was acquired at Baldwin Hills overlooking Glendale and Los Angeles in order that he might be near the sanitarium in which he finally died A paralytic stroke was the immediate cause of his death late yesterday evening it was announced announcedA A son and a grandson were at the bedside of the sportsman when death came Other relatives are a brother and two sisters neither of whom were present presentH H D Brown while well knovn as a breeder and owner of thoroughbred horses gained a national reputation as a builder of race tracks Among his first ventures in fur ¬ nishing American sportsmen tracks over which to race their horses were City Park in New Orleans Jacksonville Fla and Laurel Park in Maryland MarylandIn In 1914 he built beautiful Oriental Park at Marianao a suburb of Havana Cuba and the first pretentious meeting staged at that course began on January 14 1915 and continued for sixtyseven days Brown re ¬ tained his interest in Oriental Park until a few years ago agoHis His last and most imposing contribution to the American turf was the mammoth Arlington Park in Chicago one of the largest and most commodious racing plants in this country
