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Delaware Memos Memosy y FRED GALIANI GALIANIRecord Record Mutuel Handle qt Delaware DelawareWager Wager 2016927 on Saturday SaturdayRoad Road Construction Ties Up Traffic TrafficDELAWARE DELAWARE PARK Stanton Del June 8 That astounding mutuel handle of 2016927 which now stands as a new record for the Stanton course poses some questions The first answer to such a large amount of play is ob ¬ viously the fact that Saturday was the first and only such bonanza day that Delaware will run unopposed by any nearby competition Next weekend Mon mouth Park opens its summer meeting summer meeting which is bound to siphon off some patrons who were here on the past Saturday While the lack of conflict may be the main ans ¬ wer it must be considered that this area of northern Delaware is currently enjoying a population boom that is evident in so many suburban parts of the nation The abundance of new homes and developments almost certainly contains many racing fans the number of which grows by leaps and bounds early earlyAlthough Although last Saturday was the best day in the history of the verdant course all was not serene Road construction in the area tied up traffic worse than a crosseyed cop at Piccadilly Circus could do The resultant jams plus the heat of the day grated on a lot of nerves and the situation did not go unnoticed by the Delaware management This morning Bryan Field general manager issued the following statement Everyone at Dela ¬ ware Park regrets the traffic delays which occurred on the feeder roads and the access roads to and from the track Officers of the state police and members of the Wilmington police department co ¬ operated faithfully but they cannot do the impossible in the face of digups and detours Approximately twothirds of the patrons on Saturday were from out of state assuming our normal attendance pattern was preserved preservedThe The high mutuel handle will bring more taxes to Delaware but here again Delaware Park is vulnerable and the annual pattern must be remembered Our per diem daily average will gradually rise until next Sat ¬ urday when due to outofstate competi ¬ tion it will gradually decrease until the end of the meeting Through advertising and other methods we have striven to re ¬ verse this pattern but Delaware Park is in the most competitive position of any race track in the country countryThere There is no doubt that this track faces a tough road on the score of competi ¬ tion but it is my personal belief that the decline this year will be less than even owing to the aforementioned increase in population populationRed Red Kelly Wickham left for his Rhode Island home where he celebrated his six ¬ teenth wedding anniversary over the week end and will remain until the opening of the Monmouth Park meeting Without be ¬ ing asked twice Red reveals parental pride at the slightest asking whipping out a picture of his 12yearold Steve and some newspaper clippings relating to his sons diamond achievements with the Mo dene Paints team of the Little League Dave German and his agent Lenny Good ¬ man trained down from New York and re ¬ turned after the races but they will pile up more mileage on Wednesday when they will be back again Gorman will ride In ¬ cidentally for the Maine Chance Farm in the Polly Drummond Stakes Trainer Vernon Arthurs daughter Jacqueline is recovering from an appendectomy in Mary ¬ land General Hospital Baltimore Saxon Stables Invigorator will be sent here for the Kent Stakes and Nick Shuk has been engaged to pilot the horse Johnny Co valli sporting a vivid new cap is marking time before the opening of Monmouth MonmouthSpotted Spotted around the crowded clubhouse dining room Saturday were Harry Parr III former president of Pimlico whose wifes Staffordshire won the first race Ruth Chilton director of womens ac ¬ tivities at Garden State Park and Dick Peters racing accountant at the same track Peters stopped off en route to Florida where he will pick up his family and return north to Saratoga where he is a calculator at tho trots Mrs Ralph RalphContinued Continued on Page FortyFive Delaware Memos MemosBy By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Two TwoDe De Chiaro wife of the treasurer of Ran ¬ dall Park was a visitor Saturday Mrs Madeline OHara of Port Au Peck N J was down getting in trim for the Mbn mouth session John O Needles gen ¬ eral manager of Bowie Race Course Fred Hayden of the publicity depart ¬ ment treated his wife Mrs Gil Haus and MrsyAl Fahey to lunch before the races ilave to hand it to Fahey he outmaneuvered Freddie again John Cassidy captain in the clubhouse at the Jersey tracks had a chance to watch his comrades in action from the sidelines Biggest line on the hottest day of the year was at the water fountains and you couldnt blame the patrons What an after ¬ noon to be at a track that is devoid of cooling alcoholic beverages The heat drove Tony Pedone and his gravel voice back to New York early Since this was the first time I had seen Tony in a long while I had to inform him that his fame has spread into the depths of North Caro ¬ lina Coming from Florida in late April this traveler stopped off for the night iii a small North Carolina town There was only one station available on the radio and horse racing news is the last thirig you would expect to hear of in the tobacco belt Well following the local baseball items the southern announcer quoted Pedones re ¬ marks on Eric Guerins confident ride of Native Dancer in the Gotham viz If you were driving a Cadillac and the guy in front of you was on a bicycle youd be confident too The sport is indeed spread ¬ ing Speaking of Florida the many race trackers who live hi the southwest section of Miami near 10th Avenue will be sorry to know that Scrappy the 14yearold canine fixture on the corner was hit by an auto ¬ mobile recently An operation was success ¬ ful and a silver pin put in his leg He gets around pretty good considering his age
