Save Timonium Fair Committee chairman Bill Schluderberg sent out a postive progress report.
Widespread interest provided "definite assurance that the purchase of the Fair Grounds will be consummated." Schluderberg (the "Ess" in EssKay) was recently nominated chairman of the board of the new Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society. Directors with Thoroughbred connections included Matt Daiger, Humphrey Finney, John Heil, Larry MacPhail, Louis McLane Merryman and C.E. Tuttle.
Finney's Aug. 17 entry in The Editor's Saddle-Bag revealed a detail from one of the early Save Timonium meetings:
"It was a great shock to all of us connected with the Fair to learn that it was almost sold to Black and Decker before any of the agricultural interests of the state were aware that the property could be bought."
Updates from Don Reed on Pimlico's rebuilding progress noted that "Members of the building committee held numerous conferences; architects and engineers were consulted and sent on exploring tours to many of the nation's most modern race courses, and there was a steady hum of activity on the project." While no announcement of plans had yet been made, "Rumors have been flying thick and fast. . . Some bordered on the ridiculous, with suggestions that Pimlico use its infield for the Baltimore Colts football team's home games, but at least the Pimlico rebuilding was getting attention and the public was chiming in here and there with its ideas.
"Being restricted in area, because of its 'in-the-city' location, Pimlico cannot. . . 'just grow' as the occasion demands. Whatever is done is going to be pretty final. . ."
William Brann's Glade Valley Farm was offering three young *Challenger II broodmares for sale as well as one yearling filly of a buyer's choosing. "This offering is made to reduce our surplus of *Challenger II mares. Prices are low to accord with the present market conditions. This is an exceptional opportunity to acquire the kind of young mares that are rarely offered for sale, mares of best producing families."
Alfred Vanderbilt had two of the nation's top 3-year-old fillies, with Next Move ranking first after recent wins in the Beldame and Ladies Handicaps. Juvenile champion Bed o' Roses got a break in the weights when taking on males in the Lawrence Realization and won easily.
Both were foaled in California when their dams were bred to stallions owned by Louis B. Mayer.
n Mr. and Mrs. G. Ray Bryson received from the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the State of Maryland a certificate awarded in recognition of winning first prize in their community in the 1950 Maryland Greener Pastures Contest. "The Elray Farm at Kingsville, where the Bryson Thoroughbred breeding operations are carried on under Charlie Timanus' manage- ment, has had great attention paid to this phase of its operations. The results of liberal applications of manure, lime and fertilizer are now becoming apparent."
