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GRAY VISITS AGUA CALIENT! Son of Inventor of Australian Bar. rier Guest of Starter Harry Morrissey Sunday. .V" AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, June 21.-Reuben G. Gray, of Sydney, Australia, son of the inventor of the first starting machine known to thoroughbred racing, was an Agua Caliente visitor Sunday, guest of starter Harry Morrissey. Mr. Gray is an arrival from New York, where the current Australian six-strand barrier, invented and sponsored by him in the United States, was tried at Belmont Park. Mr. Grays father, besides being the inventor of the first barrier in racing, also introduced the first barrier in the United States, back in 1894, at Emeryville. Starter D. E. Lopez Introduced it at th northern California tracks for the elder Gray.
