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NOTICE To Horsemen merica The California Horse Racing Board licensed the Hollywood Turf Club to conduct a race meeting opening August 25th and running to November 2nd 1944 The Western De ¬ fense Command of the United States Army lifted the restrictions which had prevented our opening previously However Under ¬ secretary of War Patterson by letter dated June 9th has stated statedApproval Approval for a race meeting meetingat at this time in the Inglewood Inglewoodarea area cannot be given givenHollywood Hollywood Park has a sincere desire to serve the best interest of the Nation at this critical time and has therefore cancelled the proposed meeting in the belief that the war effort should not in any way be inter ¬ fered with We hope and expect to conduct a meeting later and will be happy when we can announce a future racing schedule at which time we hope to conduct racing on the same high plane under which we have operated heretofore HOLLYWOOD TURF CLUB
