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THOMAS J. HEALEY Name Thomas J. Healey New Jersey Steward Will Represent State in Stand At Garden State Park Meeting CAMDEN, N. J., May 18. New Jersey horsemen, breeders and track officials today commended the New Jersey State Commission on its selection of Thomas J. Healey, dean of American trainers and resident of Holmdel, N. J., as steward representing the commission. Louis J. Reilly, commission chairman, announced the selection of Healey to super vise racing: at Garden State Park from Trenton. New Jerseys first meeting under its three-year-old mutuels law will open here on July 18 and run 49 days through September 12. Healey, a practical horseman for more than a half century, also has served as a racing steward at Pimlico, Laurel and the Fair Grounds in New Orleans. "An excellent appointment," commented Walter H. Donovan, general manager of Garden State Park. "Mr. Healeys deep background as a practical horseman, his connection for so many years with the best phases of American racing great stables, great horses and great race meets makes him an ideal man to represent the state of New Jersey. He has the full respect of horsemen and the record of integrity to attract the admiration and confidence, of the layman." Healey, with few gray hairs in wiry reddish and few lines on his rugged Celtic face to vouch for his 75 years, is still one of the most vigorous men in the" racing I paddocks of the country. Born in New York city, he first came to racing in 1881 at the age of 14 and has held a trainers license for over 50 years. Among the more famous stables Healey trained for were those of Richard T. Wilson, Walter J. Salmon, Harry Payne Whitney and his son, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. His son, Jack, has been training horses for prominent eastern stables for several years. The elder Healey resigned from training ranks several years ago and since has proved a valuable addition to racings official family. He also is breeding horses at his farm in New Jersey.
