Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1925-03-20 | Page 7 | Moving Gate Starter is a Success at Tia Juana

Moving Gate Starter Is a Success at Tia Juana Marshall Cussidy's moving gate, latest lat-est innovation at race tracks, was tried at Tia Juana with what horsemen called complete success. Starter Cas-5? Cas-5? sidy sent away 13 three-year-olds in perfect alignment. j The gate, or webbing burner, was j! attached to posts on two automobile 'I trucks, moving slowly ahead of the 'A horses up to the starting post for a fit distance of about' 100 feet. The barrier (J was sprung when the horses were J about 2o feet from the post. Ij Starter Cassidy, a son of the late "Mars" Cassidy, veteran starter, be-A be-A ileves that with the moving gate lie y can send away fields without the tedious tedi-ous delays many times prejudicial to the chances of heavily weighted or nervous horses. R -