Evening journal., 1912-07-01
new HOME FOR
The HORSEMEN
MOdernized Delaware Horse
Show Association Property
to be Opened on Thursday
MASSIVE STAND SEATING
5000 OPEOPLEABOUT FINISHED

Coincident with two eight harness
races at Horse Show Park on Thurs
day, July 4, for $500 in purses, the
massive $4,000 concrete-steel grand
stand from every scat in which an
unobstructed view may be obtained
of every foot of the half mile race
course will be opened 10 the public.
The stand is the biggest of its kind
In the smaller cities of the cast and
with widened track and many other
improvements to the park the Della
ware Horse Show Association at last
has modern horse racing property.
Horsemen who have inspected the
park say II is one of the best in the
country and when the lovers of the
light harness sport get their oppor-
tunity on Thursday TO see the prop
erty they also will agree that Will
mington hereafter will get the best
there is in the racing game. The
stand is 1856 feet long, has 80 private
boxes and is under cover. It is
modern in every particular.
Workmen today were putting the
finishing touches on the big stand
According to contract the work must
be finished tonight. and although
this seems impossible II is certain
that the work will be finished by Weo
nesday Fastnings were being laid
today for the 5000 opera chairs the
stand will accommodate and these
chairs will be in position by the time
the horses are called for the Thurs
day events. The day ought to be a
big on at Horse Show Park
Visitors TO the park will hardly re
cognize the place. Up until this
year the association had to satisfy
itself with a narro wtrac, particu-
larly in the stretch and at the first
quarter pole. Grandstand accommo-
dations. as we'll as accommodations
for horses, were inadequate. This
year, however, all this is changed.
The new stand is nup, the entire ract
course is wider. permitting field OF
least seven horses to go under the
wire, and connected with the judges
stand 10y an electric signal system as
well as within clear ciew Of the track
judges, 40 paddocks are going up TO
the west of the last stretch Every
detail has been worked out to the
betterment of the sport, and the as
sociation officials are hoping that
their efforts to give the city the best
of horse racing under the best and
most comfortable conditions will be
appreciated.
But the association has not finish
ed all the improvements contemplat-
ed. The old stables on the property
are to be improved, all the buildings
painted and the ground levelled. The
additional land TO the west of the old
property has been fenced in and is
now being iilled in The Delaware
! State Fair Association will erect per-
manent frame structures on this plot
! soon for the accommodation of the
big fair exhibits The plot will per-
nit bigger and grander fair than
ever.
Inter-City Races on Saturday.
The second big racing event of the
year over the new track will come
on next Saturday when the Philadel-
/ phia-Wilmington Inter City races
viii be started Associations 10 be
represented will be Wilmington
Horse Show Association and the
Road Drivers Association Of Penn
/ sylvania. The dates are: Whining
] A'hf July " anu ANdih iihf A'tthl'AAN
Driving Club track, July 13.
Last season in the tri-city races at
Baltimore. Wilmington and Philadel-
phia. the Road Drivers carried off the
! highest honors Wilmington expects
to do the trick this year The entries
/ follow:
Free-for-all trot-Nanco. z. E.. by
Alcryon. Charles McDermott. Will
mingJon; Almo, E. m. by Auster. c. o.
Phipps, Wilmington; Dollie Villiers.
/ b. m, by Villier. II T. Wallace, Will
mington Piscara, ch. m. by Pistacio,
James Bell, Philadelphia: Baron Ar
mold. br. g.. c. Ohenhauser. Philadel-
phis; Strawberry. b. E.. by Baron VIII
kes. Joseph Davenport, Philadelphia.
219 trot-Harry J. s., blk h.. by Ad-
miral Dewey, H. J. Stoeckle, Whining
ton; Lucy Van. b. m, by Anderson
Wilkes, II. Monigle. Wilmington: Ex-
! pedition, Jr.. br. E., by expedition. NJ.
F. Hayden. Wilmington; Free Mason,
br. e.. by Mel. Roberts, II. T. Wallace,
Wilmington; Mercury, b. e.. by Nc
Kinney, E. J. Harley, Philadelphia;
Bert Gill, b. E.. unknown, Paul Con-