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BETWEEN RACES By Oscar Otis Hollywood Plans New Area Control Kentucky Snubs Added Preaknesses Del Mar Prepares for Inaugural Agreement on Stabling at Tracks HOLLYWOOD PARK Inglewood Calif June 7 Something new is under con ¬ sideration here by the management towit portable partitions by which the area of the Turf Club and club ¬ house can be enlarged or restricted at will The portable fences are past the drawing board stage and if they can be built in time will be used later on this season The idea behind the partitions is to fit the enclosure to the size of the crowd On Saturdays the newly expanded Turf Club is usually filled to capacity But the Turf Club is a membership affair each member being en ¬ titled to bring a certain number of ap ¬ proved guests They all turn out to see the Saturday stakes On week days how ¬ ever much of the Turf Club is vacant To the contrary tables in the adjacent club ¬ house are at a premium throughout the week as well as on Saturdays People who cant get tables peer over with a hungry look at the unoccupied areas in the Turf Club By throwing a portion of the Turf Club into the clubhouse it would solve this problem neatly And on Saturdays or holi ¬ days the exclusive Turf Club could func ¬ tion normally Another improvement al ¬ ready made but not before commented upon is the fact that many boxes have been cut down from six persons capacity to four The result has been a larger num ¬ ber of boxes Hollywood always has a long waiting list for boxes A careful thad check made last summer showed that a surprisingly large percentage of boxes sold on a seasonal basis were used only a few days a season The smaller size of the boxes has resulted in a much greater per ¬ centage of every day occupancy Horses and People Apparently the missing Preaknesses discovered by David F Woods of Pimlico will be recognized in all states excepting Kentucky The Maryland Horse official organ of the Maryland breeders has added the missing races to its tabulation the Maryland Jockey Club has followed suit in its of ¬ ficial releases and we are informed this tabulation will be carried next year in the American Racing Manual as official We note however The BloodHorse a Kentucky weekly did not carry them in its Preakness roster but the terse com ¬ ment was made in some of the years in which there was no Preakness stake in Maryland races of the same name were run at Monmouth Park New Jersey and Gravesend New York i The TRA made a fine gesture in sending Ed Coffey paying his annual inspection trip to California on a flying trip to Portland to inspect the flood damage assay the troubles of the thehorsemen horsemen and help in any way possible Portland is riot a TRA track and couldnt be if it wanted to because it operates at night But the TRA has overlooked all that and if horsemen are in distress it makes no difference to them The Portland barns are completely gone water has damaged the grandstand arid club ¬ house severely and many horsemen arrived there on a shoestring their horses finding scant purses at Bay Meadows what with more sturdy competition and they were counting on the lush season in the north ¬ west to put them into the black for the year A A AAfter After a bit of bickering and capering in the newspapers mostly about who should work where the Del Mar Turf Club has settled down to preinaugural routine and from where we sit we rather imagine that Del Mar will be in for perhaps its biggest season in all history Arnold M Grant New York and Beverly Hills attorney will arrive here late this month to confer with general manager Willard F Tunney re ¬ garding plans for the season Grant is chairman of the board of directors of the swanky Turf Surf Club He has mapped out a national advertising and public rela ¬ tions campaign designed to make people as far away as Maine turf and surf con ¬ scious and make them aware that Del Mar offers a vacation with horse racing as the primary sport plus the justly famed San Diego beach and lake vacation of surf swimming yachting deep sea and lake bass fishing golf and the like An amicable agreement has been reached with Golden Gate Fields regarding the stabling of horses at the two tracks and there will be no cut throat competition such as prevailed last year when the two tracks overlapped for a spell The agree ¬ ment has it that Del Mar will request that horses quartered there remain only until the publication of the last condition book and if they do not fit the conditions they will be free to ship north to Golden Gate In turn Golden Gate has agreed to hold stable space for the horses which fit the condition book at Del Mar The California horsemen went so far as to suggest that the two racing secretaries get together and work out condition books the last for Del Mar and the first for Golden Gate which would call for dissimilar types of races so far as would be practicable thus assuring full fields for both tracks during the period in question Last year there was no co ¬ operation no advance discussions and there was a headache for both tracks al ¬ beit on the whole Del Mar provided the larger fields during the overlap
