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WEDNESDAY IS ELECTRA DAY Citizens of Texas Community Plan Gala Visit to Arlington Downs Handicap Feature. ARLINGTON, Texas, March 30 One of the outstanding features of the current spring race meeting at Arlington Downs will ba the observance Wednesday, April 10, of ---Electra Day, when each of the eight races on the program will be dedicated to that community and what it represents. Dave Gray, who is general manager of the vast Waggoner holdings there, will be in charge of the Electra arrangements, which include a special train carrying a forty-piece band, the mayor and council members, civic club, executivos, and practically every member of that thriving community. The Blue Bonnet Handicap, one of the big spring stake events, will be run off on Electra Day, and the city will present the owner of the winning horse with a floral horseshoe of Texas blue bonnets, according to an announcement by Trav Daniel, resident manager of Arlington Downs, who is arranging a lavish welcoming program for the Electra visitors. "Theyre going to bring down a band from Electra, and well go one better and meet em with the T. C. U. Band and also the eighty-piece band from the North Texas A. C. in Arlington," said Daniel. In addition to the natural interest arising from the observance of Electra Day at Arlington Downs, there is a sentimental angle, due to the fact that it was in Electra that the late Colonel Waggoner, beloved master of the Downs, first decided to commence the breeding of thoroughbreds and to enter racing on a large scale. He built a stand and constructed a race track there, and after a disastrous fire in which he lost several valuable brood mares, moved the Electra stand to Arlington Downs, where it marked the first step in the construction of the vast ,000,000 plant now embodied at Arlington Downs. Many of the old timers who will be aboard the Electra special on Wednesday, April 10, are friends and acquaintances of the late Downs master, who is missing for the first time since the return of racing to his beloved state, and who practically gave his life for the sport he loved so well thoroughbred racing.
