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ALAMO DOWNS MEETING NEXT : Texas Scene Shifts to San Antdnio Course on April 25. 00 Minimum Purses With ,000 Handicaps Feature Programs Better Grade of Horses Expected. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 8. Alamo Downs will be host to several hundred horses now racing at Arlington Downs during the approaching spring meeting, April 25 through May 18. This is the promise of racing secretary Charles F. Henry, now officiating at the Waggoner course. There is plenty of interest in the San Antonio course among horsemen in the north of the state, and trains and vans will discharge their cargos. of horse flesh at Alamo Downs following the close of Aington. A 00 minimum, purse is one of the big attractions, coupled with the fact that Alamo Downs will be the only mile track in the state In operation during that period. Better grade horses will come in for their share of the purses, with 00 to ,000 dangling at the end of the long stretch. The San Antonio Light Handicap,, feature of Saturday, April 27, will be for ,000, and a good band will be out to compete in the chase for gold and glory. The resurfaced track is another lure. Horsemen who have visited Arlington Downs have brought stories of the three-inch cushion which has completely done away with the hard track of the past. The stables have been cleaned and the stalls aired out, while the parking lot has been improved through the addition of gravel, which has been used to fill up all low spots. When the parking lot is rolled it will furnish a smooth, flawless surface, with accommodations for more than 5,000 cars. Local offices are filling up with job seekers and others with axes to grind. Horsemen are making life miserable for Sidney Bender with their applications for stalls. Most of these applications are being tabled temporarily until Henry okays them. The Chamber of Commerce informed Raymond Russell, president of the track, that several conventions which plan to meet in San Antonio will convene early in the morning so that their afternoons will be free to indulge in kowtowing at the shrine of King Horse at the Downs. All of which is making the outlook very sunny, indeed, to Russell.
