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Five-Day Open Period Aid to Fairmount Park To Enable Cahokia Downs Short Rest, Permit Others to Ship In COLLINSVILLE, 111., May 9.— The Fair-mount Park management, highly pleased that its request for a change of starting and closing its 60-day had been granted by the Illinois Racing Board, moved along swiftly today to get machinery in order for the July 24-October 17 session. As a result of the revised dates there will be a let-up of five days of racing in this area, for Cahokia Downs, located just out of East St. Louis, is scheduled to wind up its campaign on Saturday, July 18. "The five-day racing lull in this community will enable the top horses at Ca-ihokia who are coming over to Fairmount to get rested up for another 60 day-and-night session," managing director Ray C. Bennigsen stated." Stables also are due to be shipped in from Chicago, Omaha, Wheeling Downs, ThistleDowns, River Downs, Waterford and Phoenix for the Fairmount competition, according to Bennigsen who recently re- Five-Day Open Period Aid to Fairmount Park To Enable Cahokia Downs Short Rest, Permit Others to Ship In Continued fiom Page Six turned from a tour of the Midwest and Southern tracks, including Louisvilles Churchill Downs, where he witnessed the 85th Kentucky Derby. The only daytime racing will be on Labor Day, September 7, when post-time will be 2:15. Starting time for the nightly cards will be 8:30, with races being scheduled for Tuesday through Saturday. Ken Seymore, track superintendent at Fairmount, reports that his crew of workers have finished most of the repairs that were planned for the Collinsville set-up. The barns doors and roofs have been put in tip-top order and the roads in the back portion of the plant have been filled in.
