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MOVE ON TO BAINBR1DGE Most Owners Recently at Thistle Down Will Race Their Horses : at Geauga Lake. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 22. More than 150 registrations had been obtained today by . racing secretary Richard Leigh for the Bain-bridge Park meeting, which opens next Wednesday at the beautiful Geauga Lake course for a period of sixteen days. Most of the horsemen which have been quartered at Thistle Down will move over to Bain-bridge, and practically all- of the horses which raced at the Thistle Down course will be seen in action. The Fairmount Purse, an allowance race at six furlongs, will feature the opening card. Seven races will constitute the opening days program. Jockey material is plentiful. Dave Dickson, leading rider at Thistle Down, remains to compete with Joe Sylvester, Johnny Dupuy, Willie Dovett, R. demons, Tommy May, R. Klein, Harold West, Virgil Moore and others, demons and Sylvester were keen battlers for second place. Eddie Hayes, who was in charge of the Thistle Down jockey room, leaves for California, where he has similar duties at Tanforan. Joe Gal-legher will be in charge at Bainbridge. Jockeys Carl Hanauer, H. Bracken, B. Matt and A. Beck departed for Kansas City following the close of the Thistle Down meeting. Racing secretary Leigh announced that a new preferred list would be started at Bainbridge, the Thistle Down sheet being discarded. Eugene Bury left Sunday for Windsor, where he will remain during the Devonshire meeting in an official capacity. He returns here to make the book and act as secretary at Cranwood, which opens in September.
