Three to Get Ready

In the scramble to be all set for the racetracks' reopening after V-E day, horse owners almost forgot that hay has gone up $18 a ton. Track owners shrugged off the four months of shutdown. No one wanted to be left at the post.

P: A jump or two ahead of Rhode Island's Narragansett and Chicago's Sportsman's Park, Hollywoodish Santa Anita busily made plans for its opening the day after the ban is lifted.

P: Two months late, Kentucky Colonel Matt Winn mailed out nomination blanks (with no date) for his Derby, figured the ponies could not be ready for the big race until early June.

P: New York's Jamaica, Belmont and Aqueduct, swamped by 4,000 applications for 3,000 available stalls, considered a May 10 opening.

P: Maryland bigwigs just looked confused; they had small hopes of running the Preakness before June. But the Baltimore Evening Stm, after talking to an "authoritative source," predicted a May 10 lifting of the ban--V-E day or not.

Watching all this hustle & bustle, Toronto police began to breathe a little easier. They had feared an invasion of U.S. bookies, gamblers and hangers-on for the opening of the Canadian racing season at Woodbine Park, May 19.

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