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Balmoral Meeting Opens on May 18 Sparkling White Is Theme For Clubhouse, Grandstand At Huge Plant in Homewood HOMEWOOD, 111., May 9.— A new outer look — sparkling white — for Washington Park course will follow the 1959 keynote of tollway-expressways, new stables, new horses, and new racing strip for Balmoral Jockeys Clubs opening May 18 at the Homewood plant. Washington Park has been dressed in a new exterior white from one end of the grandstand to the extreme limits of the clubhouse. All other adjoining structures also have been painted white. For opening day festivities, a new stakes has been carded — the 5,000 added Tri-State Stakes for three-year-olds. All Washington Park interiors are now glass-enclosed, in both clubhouse and grandstand. In addition, all stairwells have been sealed with glass doors to assure complete and efficient heating or air-conditioning as temperature demands. New Floral Displays Balmoral president Hubert E. Howard reports that many of the interior areas have been redecorated and that new floral displays are ready to augment the tracks beauty in both infield and paddock areas. Meanwhile, backstretch activity for the first 42 days of the coordinated 97-day meeting at Washington Park picked up. Nine horses trained by A. G. "Lex" Wilson, famed as conditioner of the now retired Swoons Son, checked in. Among the group was the juvenile Dogette, by The Doge — Swoon, thus a full sister to Swoons Son and. Dogoon. Several other contingents were due in, including the strings trained by Howard Hoffman and Red Wingfield. The Hasty House Farm horses under trainer Harry Trotsek are tentatively booked for arrival Tuesday. Training activity for the opening day Tri-Sate also was "engaged in by Calumet Farms On-and-On and Silver Creek Farms Roman Colonel. W. G. Gilmores Fightin Indian and Kerr Stables Demobilize, both trained by William Molter and also Tri-State hopefuls, also have been breezing regularly. The workout tab has grown steadily the past week as more horses are bedded down and more stretch their legs each morning. I
