Dee Hubbard

Dee Hubbard, whose estimated $160-million tender offer for Hollywood Park and Los Alamitos race tracks was rejected last December, has made a $40-million cash offer for 190 of the 300 acres at Los Alamitos. The offer, which was delivered Friday to Marje Everett, Hollywood Park's chief executive officer, was made by Hubbard and a partner, Dr. Edward C. Allred of Long Beach.

The day after the new race track opened in Birmingham, Ala., in 1987, a track executive called his printer with the number of programs that would be needed for the second night of racing. "We don't have to print that many," the printer said. "We've got several thousand left over from last night." The printer, doing a race-track job for the first time, thought that racing was like a Broadway play, that the actors--that is, the horses--didn't change from night to night.

The day after the new race track opened in Birmingham, Ala., in 1987, a track executive called his printer with the number of programs that would be needed for the second night of racing. "We don't have to print that many," the printer said. "We've got several thousand left over from last night." The printer, doing a race-track job for the first time, thought that racing was like a Broadway play, that the actors--that is, the horses--didn't change from night to night.

Dee Hubbard, who spends a lot of his time trying to acquire race tracks, unexpectedly sold his interests in three pari-mutuel plants in Kansas last week. Reportedly disenchanted with his partner, and concerned about cost over-runs on the two-track Woodlands thoroughbred/dog racing facility in Kansas City, Kan., Hubbard made a tentative deal to sell those properties as well as a new dog track in Pittsburg, Kan. The buyer is Paul Bryant Jr., the son of Bear Bryant, the late football coach at Alabama.

Dee Hubbard, who spends a lot of his time trying to acquire race tracks, unexpectedly sold his interests in three pari-mutuel plants in Kansas last week. Reportedly disenchanted with his partner, and concerned about cost over-runs on the two-track Woodlands thoroughbred/dog racing facility in Kansas City, Kan., Hubbard made a tentative deal to sell those properties as well as a new dog track in Pittsburg, Kan. The buyer is Paul Bryant Jr., the son of Bear Bryant, the late football coach at Alabama.

Dee Hubbard, whose estimated $160-million tender offer for Hollywood Park and Los Alamitos race tracks was rejected last December, has made a $40-million cash offer for 190 of the 300 acres at Los Alamitos. The offer, which was delivered Friday to Marje Everett, Hollywood Park's chief executive officer, was made by Hubbard and a partner, Dr. Edward C. Allred of Long Beach.

R. Dee Hubbard's Southland-based Survive ran a mile in stakes record time, carrying Jose Santos to a three-length victory Sunday in the $114,400 Bed o' Roses Handicap at Aqueduct. Carrying 117 pounds in the race for fillies and mares 3 years old and older, Survive ended Amy Be Good's five-race winning streak. Amy Be Good was second in the six-horse field, 4 1/2 lengths ahead of Warfie. Survive's time of 1:34 1/5 bettered by four-fifths of a second the record set by Too Bald in 1968.

Randall Dee Hubbard was born and raised in Smith Center, Kan., (Pop: 2,000), helped in his family's ice house until he ventured out to work wheat fields from Texas to North Dakota, played a little junior college basketball, then took a steady job as a junior high coach and teacher in Towanda, Kan., for $3,200 a year. Two years later, he became a salesman for a glass company in Wichita because the pay was better. Was it ever! Within 20 years, R.D.

After years of trying unsuccessfully to secure Trevor Denman, Hollywood Park has finally landed its man. An agreement was reached Wednesday allowing Denman to call the races at Hollywood Park, beginning with the start of the spring-summer meeting April 24. He replaces Michael Wrona, 24, an Australian who was hired last May.

As a running back with USC and the Kansas City Chiefs, Mike Garrett thought he took some hard knocks. That was before he ran into the media as USC's athletic director. When things go wrong in USC's athletic department, it seems as if the media persist in holding the athletic director responsible.

Dee Hubbard, whose estimated $160-million tender offer for Hollywood Park and Los Alamitos race tracks was rejected last December, has made a $40-million cash offer for 190 of the 300 acres at Los Alamitos. The offer, which was delivered Friday to Marje Everett, Hollywood Park's chief executive officer, was made by Hubbard and a partner, Dr. Edward C. Allred of Long Beach.

Hollywood Park will have some thin legs in the infield to go with the thin legs on the track when it opens a 32-day fall season today. Thoroughbreds, who carry their weights of 1,000 pounds and more on four spindly legs, are nothing new, but the flamingos at Hollywood Park are. Thirty of them arrived on loan from the Greater Los Angeles Zoo at Griffith Park earlier this month and have taken up residence near the infield lakes.

Amid all the hype and hoopla of today's Breeders' Cup program, spare a thought for Only. No one paid much attention to Only this week, even though her stall in trainer John Russell's barn backed up to those of several Breeders' Cup horses. Only, a 4-year-old Florida-bred filly who had finished in the money in 9 of her 17 starts, was to have run today in the $100,000 Midwick Handicap, one of two non-Breeders' Cup races on the nine-race card.