Thistle Down Notes, Daily Racing Form, 1935-06-14

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THISTLE DOWN NOTES One of the latest additions to the local horse colony which will race during the Thistle Down meeting was the Graceland Stock Farm which came from Agua Cali ente The horses in the shipment were Club ¬ house Mechanics Gold Royal Lad Little Grace Gold Thorn Star Dixie and Late News Joe Stephen was in charge chargeThe The Wichita Stable checked in with the following from Kansas City Cloudet Hair Trigger Sir Ajax Olive Sabath and Blue Loam G W Ellis was in charge chargeDave Dave Bran brought Office Girl and Sweet Joe from Columbus and H D King regis ¬ tered Red Vest and Royal King from Tan foran R Leach has Star Ballot Costlier and Astute which were shipped from Co ¬ lumbus lumbusRacing Racing secretary Richard Leigh will issue the first condition books for the Thistle Down meeting on Thursday the opening day card carrying four 400 purses two 500 and one 700 which will be the Thistle Down Inaugural InauguralJohn John T Ireland John King and Harry Allshouse will form the board of stewards at Thistle Down DownOn On the opening day card there will be two races at the Thistle Down course dis ¬ tance which is eighty feet less than five furlongs and one at a mile and forty yards Two six furlongs one five furlongs and one at a mile and a sixteenth complete the card cardThe The Ohio Derby which already has sev ¬ eral top notch nominations including Ro ¬ man Soldier and Sun Portland will be run for the first time at the Thistle Down course Prior to 1928 it was run at Maple Heights then shifted to Bainbridge where Jt was conducted until 1932 1932Only Only one track record was equalled last year at Thistle Down during the meeting conducted there in August but with the grade of horses registered here this season it Is likely some of the other marks will fall fallMrs Mrs K Hillock and Harold Lintz unloaded five head from Dctroitt the lot Including Le Flore Morning Cry Lady Mary Elcidio and Footwork FootworkChas Chas Beal brought four from Hagers town Ambrise Easton and H G Woods were arrivals from Columbus with small strings Amrose Cremer brought three from Hagerstown and TJ Dodd brought one from 1 Columbus ColumbusGeneral General manager Eddy has made a splen ¬ did tieup for week days with the street car company On certain days one of the regular weekly street car passes will be good for two admissions to the track There are some 60000 of these sold It will afford many ad ¬ ditional fans a chance to see the races


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