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Santa Anita Given Fifty Racing Days Meet to Open December 28 And Close March 8; Other Tracks Get 1947 Periods LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 7. — An award of 50 racing days to Santa Anita Park for the winter season, beginning December 28, 1946, and concluding March 8, 1947, on a five-day per week basis, was announced today by the California Horse Racing Board. The 50-day season will include the usual five charity days and represents a reduction of five days in the dates requested by the organization. At the same time the Racing Board tentatively alloted, without specifying actual opening and closing days, the following periods for 1947: Hollywood Park, 50 days, including five for charity. Bay Meadows and Tanforan, 40 days each, which include three charity days for the former and two for the latter. Del Mar, 35 days, including three for charity. The actual racing seasons for all excepting Santa Anita will be definitely assigned when the board finds itself able to make a decision with respect to the reopening of the Golden States track at Albany. A syndicate, represented by Edward R. Young, Los Angeles attorney and former head of the state racing board, expects to conclude a lease on the Golden Gate property in the very near future. This track, owned by the Santa Fe Land and Improvement Company, now is in possession of the U. S. Navy which, it is stated, expects to vacate by January 1, after which it may take some six months to recondition it for racing. Under these circumstances, the syndicate is requesting that dates for September and October, 1947, be reserved for it until a formal application can be made. Dates for the Los Angeles County Fair at Pomona and the State Fair at Sacramento, both of which expects to resume next year, also will be assigned later, as will harness racing dates for the Western Harness Racing Association at Hollywood Park and the Pacific Coast Trotting Association at Bay Meadows. Postpone Gregory Hearing The board postponed for 60 days a hearing in the case of trainer J. R. Gregory, suspended at Bay Meadows for the alleged stimulation of Antelope, and postponed until the next meeting, June 24, hearings on trainer Jack Taylor, suspended for the alleged stimulation of the horse Red Beard at Bay Meadows, and trainer Herschel Allen, charged with dishonesty and wrongful practices with respect to a horse belonging to Richard Gorman. The board revoked the license of Joseph Q. Johnson, former business agent of the California Grooms Association, after hearing testimony that Johnson had converted to his own use a check for 00 to the Grooms association by Wm. P. Kyne, general manager of Bay Meadows, who had pledged ten acres of ground and a 0,000 fund to erect a home for aged or disabled grooms. Dr. L. E. McGee, owner and trainer of the horse Red Beard, allegedly stimulated while in charge of Taylor, argued for the lifting of his suspension on the ground that he was not at Bay Meadows when the incident occurred and had no knowledge that the horse would run in the race. Decision on his case was taken under consideration. " ..
