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HAWTHORNE INSPECTION ♦ Open House Sunday Should Attract Largest Gathering in Years. 1 Electric Eye to Be Tested in Public — Crack Field Promised for Inaugural Handicap. • Hawthornes thirty-one days spring race meeting is less than a week away now, and Sunday the track will be open to the public for its annual pre-meeting inspection. With the Foto Electzic Eye installed and the engineers ready to make trial pictures, this years open house should attract the largest gathering in some seasons. Hawthorne is just about ready to go, but racing will not get under way until Saturday, when the ,000 added Inaugural Handicap is the feature of an eight-race program. Entries close for the Inaugural Saturday night and a large field is assured. Among those named early was a strong trio by the Milky Way Farms Stable. Robert McGarvey named Sangreal, Whiskolo and Forever Yours for the six furlongs sprint. McGarvey checked in Friday with two carloads of the Milky Way Farms Stable horses. Jockey Alfred Robertson arrives next week to handle them. Hawthorne has received much more attention than the standard cleaning up that all tracks are given. The introduction of the camera finish is naturally most important, but several other changes for the convenience of the spectators have been made. The old placing judges stand has been removed and the judges moved to the inside of the track. The paddock has been enlarged, improvements made to the odds board and a new bar constructed. The official staff is on hand now, with "Buddy Wingfield, the new and popular starter, schooling horses daily. Pat Gal Continued on thirty-second page. HAWTHORNE INSPECTION Continued from first page. liger opened the secretarys office Friday, and racing secretary Reeder will arrive Saturday from Churchill Downs with many nominations. Robert P. McAuliffe, Chica-goan, who is a newcomer to the official staff and will serve as one of the placing judges, is busy assisting Galliger and Reeder with the early stake nominations. The E. R. Bradley horses, trained by William Hurley and including Bow and Arrow, will arrive Monday from Maryland, and in the same car will be the horses trained by H. G. Bedwell. The extensive Calumet Farm Stable will arrive Sunday direct from the Calumet Farm in Kentucky. They will start their campaign at Hawthorne. Half the stalls are already occupied and all space will be filled before the opening day.
