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ThistleDown By J. R. Batty Marathon Handicap Has Novel Conditions Two-Mile Test for Platers Worth 0,000 Jockey Tinnon Veteran of Korean Action THISTLE DOWNS, North Randall, Ohio, June 11.— The Marathon Handicap, scheduled here for Saturday, July 2 as part of the July 4 holiday week-end festivities, ia a nuvci uutanuc event/. j.xic uuu- ditions read that distance specialists, three-year-olds and older, who have started for a claiming price of ,000 or less in 1955 are eligible to start. The distance is two miles and weights will not exceed 122 pounds, which should satisfy horsemen and owners. Most important is the purse, which is 0,000 and probably the richest prize offered this year for platers. To insure both a representative and well balanced field limited to 14 starters the management reserves the right to invite two endurance performers from each" of the following tracks or racing sectors: Delaware Park, Chicago, Detroit, New England, New York and New Jersey. Invitations will be mailed out in the near future. Stauffer to Ride for Holly Tree Stable Arnie Shields, calltaker employed by Daily Racing Form on the Cleveland circuit, has turned in his membership card at the Orioles Club, an Akron gathering place habited while Ascot Park ran off its spring meeting. Incidentally, Mrs. Shields arrived from New York last week and will stay for the rest of the summer season . . . Apprentice George Leone, who rode Miss Eileen here recently for Gene Leone, is a nephew of the owner. . .Holly Tree Stable acquired at private terms the contract on the riding services of apprentice Harry Stauffer. The youngster formerly was obligated to owner-trainer Joe Paoli . . . Jockey Lloyd Earl Tinnon, veteran of the second Marine division overseas in Korea, is making a saddle comeback. Tinnon fought at Heartbreak Ridge and Chosen Reservoir, was wounded three times and has two stars plus a purple heart. William Sandusky, Daily Racing Form salesman who makes the barn areas each morning, also has available to horsemen the 1955 edition of The American Racing Manual . . . Pat Dunne, Cleveland distributor for this publication, advises that racing fans can also purchase the 1955 American Racing Manual at the track entrances from the Daily Racing Form vendors . . . Charley Smith, racing secretary at Scarborough Downs, was here Thursday and Friday and talked with horsemen about racing their charges at this Maine. course, which opens July 18 for a run of 48 days. Smith departed Saturday for Waterford Park . . . Glenn Laird, the camera finish man whose Conformation Photos, Inc. equipment is in use here, came in from Rockingham Park. He supervised transferring the cameras from pimlico to the New England track, which opens a meeting soon. Isi Newborn, turf editor for the Cleveland Press and also publisher of a few books on the subject of handicapping, has not given up on the three-year-old filly, Is New Born, named for him and racing in New England. The daughter of Swiv — Infra Red is still a maiden, but has early speed and should find a field she can lead all the way, says Newborn . . . Jockey Hubert McKinney, injured in a training accident the latter part of the Ascot Park session, has been released from St. Thomas Hospital, in Akron. McKinney will be sidelined for some weeks to permit internal injuries he . suffered to completely heal . . . Leonard Utterbach, resident track superintendent at Ascot Park, reported the stabling area is now tenantless and his crew will begin the task of readying the plant for next springs meeting. Apprentice Patten Returns From Service The flag man at this meeting the fellow who drops the- red flag just after the horses leave the gate for benefit of horsemen and patrons timing the race with their own stop watch is Al Tryon, Sr., father of the jockey who is riding at ThistleDown. The elder Tryon was a topnbtch rider in his own right during the late 20s . . . Richard Patten, a young apprentice rider who gained some experience piloting Jack Kileys distance mare, Luxuriant this past winter atv Gulfstream Park, has applied for a license to ride at this session. Patten is still seeking his first winner, but had his career interrupted by a "hitch" in the Armed Forces. He is now affiliated with the stable A. L. Leight is training . . . Don Yates checked in from Pimlico with a publicly-owned stable numbering seven horses. William E. Charles, Jr., is now making a missionary tour in quest of horses for the better races at the Randall Park meeting, "which follows this session. Charles, secretary of the Florida division of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association, expects to visit in the next couple weeks just about every race track in operation in the country and a few Canadian courses. Formerly a trainer, Charles announced he has discontinued racing horses in his own interest and is sticking to breeding thoroughbreds . . . Trainer A. J. LaCoste, who has a formidable band of horses quartered here, returned from New York, where he attended the sale of horses in training at Belmont Park . . . Decapolis, who finished second here recently while competing for a claiming price of ,000, is a fullbrbther to Summer Tan.
