Bill to Aid Sunshine Park Racing Enacted Into Law, Daily Racing Form, 1949-06-11

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B/7/ fo Aid Sunshine Park Racing Enacted Into Law SUNSHINE PARK, Oldsmar, Fla., j June 10. — A racing: bill designed to en- j courage* the thoroughbred sport at Sunshine Park became law last night when Gov. Fuller Warren attached bis signature to the legislation. The provisions of the bill allow for the one mile Florida West Coast track to operate under a ,000 daily license fee up to a daily mutuel average of 75,000. In previous years the state received 8 per cent of the total mutuel play. C. C. "Milo" Vega, president and W. Frank Hobbs, general manager of Sunshine Park, will travel to Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday to confer with John W. Kane, secretary-treasurer of the Oldsmar plant. Foremost of the items to be discussed are the 1950 dates with a 50-day session in view and a revision of the purse distribution with higher purses planned for the horsemen.


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