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Beulah Park Raises Curtain on 19Day Spring Meeting on Monday Afternoon Ruse Mad Saint Luciete And Gayleo Among Fieid of Nine in Inaugural Purse PurseBEULAH BEULAH PARK Grove City Ohio May 8 Racing returns to this central Ohio onemile course Monday afternoon for a run of 19 days with prospects and condi ¬ tions bright for a highly successful session sessionPresident President and general manager Robert J Dienst pronounced all improvements and changes made since last falls meeting completed and fans journeying here for the openingday program will witness the sport in most comfortable and pleasing surroundings surroundingsNo No small item on the refurbishing pro ¬ gram over the winter months was the widening of the racing strip itself which now permits the starting of 12 horses in ¬ stead of 10 as in the past pastFeaturing Featuring Mondays initial program will be the 1500 Inaugural Purse a sixfurlong allowance event Nine have been named for the Inaugural and an evenly contested race seems likely likelySeveral Several of those named for the opening feature have been absent from competition since last fall but have been training in a fashion to suggest good efforts first out R J Hamons Ruse raced well this past winter at Sunshine Park in Florida and while there won three races on one occa ¬ sion running six furlongs in 1 12 Mestiza also was a winner at Sunshine and fol ¬ lowing that meeting raced on the New NewContinued Continued on Page FortyEight Beulah Park Raises Curtain On 19Day Meeting Monday MondayContinued Continued from Page One OneEngland England circuit in the bettergrade events but without success successMrs Mrs J Bronnenbergs Mad Saint has been idle since the fall meeting here He has a bundle of early speed and appears capable of winning over any distance The Madero gelding won seven races in 1953 1953Luciete Luciete scored in two races here last fall being timed the six furlongs in 111 on each occasion Following those victories the Grandpal filly was sent to Churchill Downs and won over a slow track when entered for 5000 at the Derby course courseGayleo Gayleo is another well remembered by local racegoers for he too was a double winner last fall Gray Battle winner of seven out of 16 engagements in 1953 did his rivals one better chalking up three in a row at the last meeting here and then later winning a pair of races at Thistle Down Reno Red Pardner and English Man complete the field fieldRacing Racing secretary Eugene W Bury has surrounded the feature with several in ¬ teresting events and given a fair break in the weather the inaugural card should be witnessed by one of the biggest opening day crowds in the tracks history
