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Florida Dates to Follow Usual Pattern in 195657 195657Propose Propose Tropical Open Season Followed by Hialeah Gulfstream GulfstreamProposed Proposed Florida Dates Tropical Park November 28 1956 1956to to January 16 1957 43 days daysHialeah Hialeah Park January 17 to March 4 40 days daysGulfstream Gulfstream Park March 5 to April 23 43 days daysMIAMI MIAMI Fla May 1 Racing dates in Florida for the 195657 season will follow the same pattern as for the recent cam ¬ paign with Tropical Park opening first to be followed by Hialeah and then Gulf stream Park This was indicated this week when Horace Wade director of racing at Gulfstream filed a request with the Florida State Racing Commission to retain the endseason dates for his track The season will open Wednesday November 28 and run for 126 days with the close at Gulf stream on Tuesday April 23 23Hialeah Hialeah Park earlier had applied for the middle dates Under the law the three Miami area tracks are allowed dates ac ¬ cording to the mutuel handle the previous season Hialeah which handled 71743684 during its recent session therefore is en ¬ titled to the prime dates in mid winter Continued on Page Forty Florida Dates to Follow Usual Pattern in 195657 Propose Tropical Open Season Followed by Hialeah Gulfstream GulfstreamContinued Continued froi Page One Onewhile while Gulfstream with a play of 57162 170 is permitted the second most choice period at the end of the season Tropical Park which had a play of 37882866 this winter will open the season in November NovemberThe The dates will be formally assigned at a meeting of the Florida commission sched ¬ uled for May 14 Each track will have a 40day meeting with six extra days during the season for the state Scholarship Fund Although each track is assigned two days for this fund Tropical and Gulfstream again this season will run one day each for Hialeah Thus the Tropical and Gulf stream sessions will be 43 days each Tropi ¬ cal running its three scholarship days at the beginning of its meeting and Gulf stream slating the final three days of its stand for the fund fundThe The proposed schedule of dates is re ¬ garded as certain to be approved by the commission
