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| BETWEEN RACES * «« ore | ARCADIA, Calif., May 24.— One of the most intriguing of brochures ; it has been our pleasure to scrutinize I is the profusely illustrated booklet put out by the Monmouth Park Racing Association. The brochure is the creation of that man of all trades I on the turf, Horace Wade. Wade serves as the official good-will man [ at the historic Monmouth site, but he is known for his i other and varied interests in racing. He is a racing secretary in his own right, an able horseman with a stable, k and is able to hold just about any post there is around a race track. Wade is perhaps at his best as a writer. Before preparing the Monmouth brochure, he spent all his spare time for several months in exhaustive research of the old Monmouth Park, which had its inaugural on July 30, 1870. Wade says the activities of the old Jersey course were well documented in the "Spirit of the Times,", • and much additional authentic information was garnered from the files of the Freehold Museum. In addition, he talked at considerable length with one E. D. Price, now 80, who runs the Price Hotel nearby, and who lived through the years of Monmouth now styled the "Golden Decade," to wit, from 1878 until the cessation of racing there. The new Monmouth endeavors to adhere to the traditions of old, yet manages to keep up to the minute with all modern improvements. AAA We understand there is a growing number of people in the country who are collecting these brochures as • one facet of the fine and interesting hobby of collecting ; I I [ i • Brilliant Brochure Issued by Monmouth Wade Booklet Appears Collectors Item Jockeys Eager Volunteers for Fashion Show Starnstripes Shows Promise in Jersey turfiana. Whereas collecting of a pretentious turf library, with the more first editions the better, can run into important money, the gathering of the treasures costs little, if anything, more than postage and perhaps a polite request for the work. At the same time, we rather doubt that any turf library in America, no matter how pretentious, can boast the variety of pictures and illustrations as provided in the brochures such as this newest one on Monmouth Park. This particular work endeavors to take an interested party through a day at the races. Wade pays a particular tribute to New Jersey breeding of the modern age, and sagely observes that while todays breeding farms may not be as glamorous to old-timers, because the "passing years have a habit of lending enchantment to any distant scene," the comparatively new farms in- New Jersey are among those ranking among the tops in the nation. He mentions, in particular, the establishments of William Helis, Joseph M. Roebling, M. N. W. McNaughton, Mrs. Dora V. Kellogg, Mrs. William W. Vaughn, Amory L. Haskell, Mark W. Jones and others. The book also advises, in case you are within striking distance at the time, that Monmouths new and more glorious meeting is scheduled to open on June 20. You can get there by train, plane. boat, bus and private auto. The featured attraction of the season will be the 5,000 Monmouth Handicap. AAA Horses and People: It seems odd that more tracks have not adopted the Garden State specifications for harrows. Designed by track superintendent Emil Weiler, the harrows roll on rubber tires and can be set to any depth, and such depth of cushion will be guaranteed by the man. Incidentally, the teeth of track harrows are made from one of the hardest steels known, but the constant abrasion, as they are towed around the track between races, wears out a set about every 50 days. . . . Usually, jockeys are not too keen to volunteer their services for what might .be deemed extra-curricular activities, but Garden State Parks director of public relations Marshall Bainbridge had little trouble in lining up nine reinsmen to participate in what is now an institution at the Camden course, the annual fashion show held last Thursday. This years style and glamour parade was sponsored by Gimbels of Philadelphia. AAA Starsnstripes, the trim little filly being proved up in Jersey by Claiborne -Stud, has shown much promise, and one and all may consider her as a real prospect. . . . Former Californian Fred Burley has adopted the Atlantic Coast as his home, and is doing right well with a sizable string down Jersey way. Burley was a one-time rider and better than a green hand at sending them over the jumps. ... J. H. Seley, the California sportsman, who made a fine gesture in flying Duplicator to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby, acquired at private treaty the Continued on Page Thirty-Five BETWEEN RACES U By OSCAR OTIS Continued from Page Thirty-Six fine broodmare Bims Best before returning to the Coast. Bims Best is an own sister to the well-known Be Faithful. She * is in foal to Priam. Seley is quartering his : production stock at the Chino "miracle [ farm" of Dr. Gerald Chewning untii he fits out a place of his own. The Seley sire, I Moneybags, holds court at the Chino acre- age. : AAA A Olympia or Ocean Drive loom almost as . a certainty to fly out to Hollywood Park this summer for the. 0,000 Westerner. . . . : California sportsman George Ring recently 2 inspected his Blue Grass production division, housed at the farm of Doug Davis. -Ring is particularly hopeful for Flyoff, the" half-sister to Citation, who has foaled to i War Admiral and who will be bred back to J the same sire. Another mare he has in Kentucky, Valonia, obtained from Louis B. 3 Mayer, has foaled to Eiffel Tower and will be bred to Alibhai. . . . Humphrey Finney, ; who will assist in the organization of a sales 5 market for midwestern breeders, specif i- -cally those of the Colorado and Wyoming t areas, says that within the next few years, it is his belief that this sector will afford a . substantial, if not sensational market, for * a large number of thoroughbreds. The word is that quite a few Colorado business leaders would like to. see their colors represented when Denver racing becomes a reality.
