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SUNDAYS OPEN HOUSE Much Interest Manifested in Preview of Meeting at Washington Park Exhibition Race the Big Attraction Attractionof of Afternoon Public Invited InvitedFree Free of Any Charge Washington Parks informal openhouse preview of its race meeting next Sunday afternoon promises to bring a huge gather ¬ ing to the Homewood course Track gates will be flung open at 130 oclock There is no admittance charge Race fans may wan ¬ der about the huge establishment at will It is their privilege to visit the back stretch where the thoroughbreds are stabled and view at close range the usually hidden in ¬ tricacies of preparing a racer for the start ing 1 gate gateThe The afternoons big attraction is in the nature of an exhibition race This race will bring a field of popular thoroughbreds to the post under the individual owners colors Leading jockeys of the Illinois season will have mounts in the races Only thing lack ¬ ing will be the privilege of betting which of course will not be permitted due to it being on a Sunday SundayTrainers Trainers of horses stabled at Washington Park have informed secretary McLennan they will take advantage of Sunday after ¬ noons open house to send their charges through workouts over the track Thus race fans will have opportunity to view at first hand just how these back stretch wizards condition their horses horsesSCHOOLING SCHOOLING OF HORSES HORSESStarter Starter Dickerson announced he will spend an hour at the starting gate thus giving horsemen an opportunity to see him school unruly racers at the barrier barrierPublic Public interest in the Patrons Handicap Contest with its daily prize of 1000 to the winner and its Saturdays grand prize of 5000 is growing apace This proved one of Continued on thirtyfifth page SUNDAYS OPEN HOUSE Continued from first page Washington Parks most popular innovations last year Its continuance at the coming meeting has brought widespread approval from the race fans who after all are the ones goingWhen who keep the sport going When East meets Middle West will have its results during the Washington Park meeting Hirsch Jacobs the countrys lead ¬ ing trainer at winners who has won all his successes in the elite East and the sunny clime of Florida wired he would be here for Mondays races His horses leave New York tonight tonightIts Its a far call from the slim trim thor ¬ oughbred to the huge draught horse Com ¬ parison between the two may be made at Washington Park Housed af the Homewqod course are twelve Percherons These huge members of the equine family have duties all their own One team of four horses haul the starting gate about the track Another pulls the harrow A third handles the sprinkler wagon
