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Thistle Down Opens Ohio Racing Season Lawless Miss Has Six Rivals In Cleveland News Handicap THISTLE DOWN, North Randall, Ohio, May 6. — The Thistle Down Racing Association will usher in the thoroughbred sport to this section of Ohio tomorrow, with an eight-race program of a spring meeting that will progress for 20 racing days, coming to a conclusion on May 30. They will again operate for a fall session of 24 days duration, beginning on September 12 and terminating October 15. Post time for the first race has been scheduled for 2:15 p. m. Daily Double betting will be on the first and second races, with the wagering in this pool closing promptly at 1:45 p. m. Co-featured sprint and middle -distance handicaps have been arranged, as the fifth and sixth races, respectively. George Y. Bookers stakes-performing mare, Lawless Miss, appears the solid favorite for the six-furlong Cleveland News Handicap, but will be opposed by six sprinters who possess speed that may be difficult for her to match with her prohibitive impost of 120 pounds. This, will mark the fourth year that the Thistle Down Racing Association has presented its racing at Randall Park, which is adjacent the Thistle Down property. Immediately following the close of its fall meeting in 1944, the grandstand and clubhouse were razed to the ground by fire and, although several proposals have been made to rebuild, no definite action has as yet been taken. General manager Harry A. Allshouse and racing secretary Luther Henderson Van Zandt are enthusiastic that this will be the outstanding meeting ever to be presented in the Cleveland area. Following this vein of thought, they particularly centered their attention toward gathering an improved quality of thoroughbreds. In this action, they were well rewarded and, through a program of screening stable applications, they have assembled at the two tracks an abundance of racers that will adequately supply Van Zandt material from which to draw upon for his feature races, as well as raising the standard of horses that are required for claiming events.
