Centennial Halves Fee For Reserved Seats: Additional Free Accommodations On Agenda for Coming Meeting, Daily Racing Form, 1954-05-03

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Centennial Halves Fee For Reserved Seats SeatsAdditional Additional Free Accommodations On Agenda for Coming Meeting MeetingLITTLETON LITTLETON Colo May 1 Centenial Race Track will provide more free seats cut its reserved seat prices and con ¬ tinue its 50cent front gate admission at the Denver area race meeting opening here July 2 Those are a few of the policy an ¬ nouncements made by general manager Ivan Thomas in The Centennial a new publication prepared by the track for pub ¬ lic distribution distributionPreviewing Previewing the 50day season that will continue from the 4th of July week end through September 11 the tracks publica ¬ tion also forecasts daily programs of nine to 11 races with first post of 130 p m first and last races for quarter horses the rest for thoroughbreds quinella betting on quarter horse races ladies day every Thursday with free admission for every woman whether or not she is accompanied by a paying customer and free parking Tuesdays through Fridays with a 25Tcent fee Saturdays and holidays when extra at ¬ tendants are needed to keep traffic flow ¬ ing smoothly smoothlyThomas Thomas in disclosing that there will be more unreserved seats thi summer and that grandstand reserved seat prices will be cut in half from 1 to 50 cents pointed to the steady increase in national race track attendance attendanceNearly Nearly 50000000 people went to the horse races last year making it Americas favorite spectator sport he said Racing is gaining new fans right along and we want to see that comfortable accommoda ¬ tions are within reach of everybody


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