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INNOVATIONS AT CLEVELAND Thistle Down Park to Have an Infield Paddock Bahr Gate Will Be Used to Start Races Stuljlcs Arriving 1rom Maryland CLEVELAND Ohio May 14 The policy of the Thistle Down Jockey Club set forth in the announcement of its meeting beginning May 28 of bringing its racing as closely as possible to its public and providing every possible safeguard for the protection of its patrons was further demonstrated yesterday when announcement was made that the asso ¬ ciation was building an openair paddock in the infield directly opposite the grandstand and club house so that every movement of the starters in a race from the time they left the stable to the finish would be under the view of each spectator spectatorThis This plan was followed at the Hawthorne track at Chicago last year and proved a popular innovation There are many people who go to a race track who never leave their seats during the entire afternoon and the waits between races often become tiresome to such spectators The constant action be ¬ fore their eyes of horses being warmed up before a race walked on the tan bark ring and the saddling of the horses gives an afmbsphere and color to the racing that noth ¬ ing else could produce For a half hour before the races are run and until the official board is dropped on the final race the whole race track will bustle with life and activity activityThe The association also announced that for the protection of the public and the horse ¬ men the Bahr stall starting gate will be used in all races The gate is now in use at all of the tracks in Illinois at Pimlico and in Kentucky and has been found to greatly simplify the problem of starting It not only prevents horses from being kicked at the post but it gives each starter in the race sufficient room to begin well and does away with all talk of horses being held at the post by assistant starters The device is placed on ball bearing wheels and is drawn from one starting post to another without difficulty difficultyWithin Within the next few days Thistle Down will be bustling with activity The stables of Woods Garth Sam Louis and W Durnan arrived from Maryland today and from now on there will be a steady stream of horses and horsemen arriving at the course The stables that will race at Thistle Down will represent not only a fine class of horses but will embrace among the owners many of the leading business and professional men of the country The stables of Admiral Gary T Grayson personal physician to the late Woodrow Wilson Samuel Ross a millionaire merchant of Washington D C Col Phil T Chinn Kentuckys leading breeder C B Irwin livestock agent of the Union Pacific Railroad B A Jones Missouris leading breeder F P Letellier and A B Letellier wealthy paper dealers of New Orleans La A P Canale of Memphis Tenn J O Keene of Kentucky Regan McKinney W J ICuhl man Dr L H Tubbs W P Murnan Charles R Aldrich C E Hudson and other residents of Ohio will also participate in the racing racingMany Many of the leading riders of the country will be here including W Moran accepted as possibly the most promising apprentice now before the public publicMuch Much interest is being taken in the Cleve ¬ land Derby to be run on June 7 and the field of starters will be a truly representative one
