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"WELL-RIGGED" RACECOURSE. "If Colonel Bob Pinkertou keeps on he will have the Sheepshead Bay racecourse res.embling a colossal ship under full sail," says the Morning Telegraph. lie and his men have been playing hide add seek with tlte poolroom people ever since Futurity day and the stay-in-town layers of odds must have leased three-fourths of the window room overlooking the track. Every time Colonel Plnkerton finds the poolroom people have secured a fresh point of vantage he stakes a pair of telephone poles and rigs up a huge canvas curtain or sail. There are four of these now flapping in the breezes in the back-stretch, and the first tiling you know therell be no more view ot the bay from the top of the grandstand."
