HBPA Officials Call Meeting of Horsemen Racing at Ascot, Daily Racing Form, 1952-06-25

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i * / j j t t i | t i HBPA Officials Call Meeting Of Horsemen Racing at Ascot ASCOT PARK, Cuyahouga Falls, Ohio, June 24. — Fred Grimes, vice-president, and Stuart Bullock, secretary-treasurer of this division of the HBPA, posted a notice on the bulletin board for the horsemen members of that organization to the effect that there will be a meeting at both tracks, Thistle Down and Ascot, in asking for a general increase in purses and more conditions in the races. The meetings will be held at two different times. The first will be at Thistle Down on Wednesday. June 25. at 10:30 a. m. and the second for the Ascot Park horsemen on Thursday, June 26, at 10:30 a. m. The reason for the two meetings is the fact that the overflow of horses for the Ascot Park meeting is stabled at Thistle Down. The final paragraph of the notice is as follows : "It is our purpose to determine what the majority stands for, failing satisfactory settlement and if a vote of confidence is given we will call down our entire national organization by this week-end."


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