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A Short Walk for Horsemen Bob Duffy, stall superintendent at ThisteDown, reports the stabling area is tenanted to capacity, meaning about 550 horses are quartered here. He estimates Randall Park, just across the street from this plant, has about the same number of horses housed in its barns. Of course the two plants have a working agreement whereby horses stabled at one track can race at the other. Randall Park, according to general manager Elmer Vickers, Jr., has some vacant stalls but they are promised out. Some of the trainers now quartered at ThistleD/iwn will transfer their charges over to Randall when that track opens its meeting on July 16 for a similar run of 44 days. . . . Three claims in one race set a new record for the meeting. On Saturday three horses were taken from the second race. Each went for ,500. Trigger Man went to M. L. Cohen, Castles Best to Carlton Stable and Jack Kenny to I. Elizalde. Lou Effrat, baseball writer for the New York Times who travels with the N. Y. Yankees, was among the visitors recently when Cleveland played -the Stengel invaders at night here. . . . Archie Dean, my contact man on the Toronto racing circuit, recently mailed a copy of "The Woodbine Story." Very interesting brochure. Assembled in the book is the complete history of all the famous stakes run since the inaugural meeting at Woodbine. An even better brochure is planned for next year, reports Dean. . . . B. H. "Brownie" Held journeyed in from his home in Columbus for a days racing. Held served in an official capacity at the recently terminated Beulah Parlo-meeting and is now vacationing. He was formerly racing secretary at Ascot Park and worked at River Downs and Hamilton, Ohio, fair grounds track and is well known throughout Ohio by horsemen.
