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SHEEPSHEAD BAY IMPROVEMENTS. Down Sheepshead Bay way the work is going merrily on the new training track. The big stretch of property to the east of the Futurity course is alive with workmen and wagons, and already a very fair idea is obtained of what this new work will look like when it is finished. In the laying out of the mile circuit it has been found necessary to cut away about twenty feet from one of the stables in that section, and with this exception it is merely a question of constructing and building up the swampy land into a modern track. This filling is principally necessary on the west stretch of the new work. To the east of the clump of trees that the track will circle, the meadow is almost as level as a billiard table, and in the survey chosen the labor will be comparatively easy. The ground has been broken on the south turn of the course and a hope is expressed that weather conditions will be such that the new work will be in readiness for galloping next spring. In the selection of this site for training grounds, the convenience of horsemen -has been consulted, and no portion of the immense plot occupied by the Coney Island Jockey Club could give the same satisfaction. A great many of the horses are stabled well toward the north end of the course, and in reality the training ground will be much easier of access to many of them than is the track itself.
