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IMPROVEMENTS AT DENVER. 7.. f!. Stebbins, who was the presiding judge at the recent Denver meeting, returned to Chicago yesterday and will journey on to a quiet spot in Wisconsin for a fortnights rest and recreation. "The meeting at Denver was a big success," said Sir. Stebbins. "The attendance greatly exceeded the expectations of Secretary Wahlgreen. There was plenty of money in circulation, but it does not appear that the lMiokmakers were able to get any of it. There was an average of over twenty books on every day and only three of the layers, in so far as I know, were winners at the end of the meeting. Out of the ISO races run eighty-six legitimate favorites and thirty-seven second choices won, and they were all backed. I never saw so many nose and head finisljes in my life. The public Interest in the sport was such that the meeting was extended an extra six days, making a total of thirty-one days. "The track is now owned by Slessrs. Wahlgreen. Sleyers, Bennett, Butcher, Stubbs and Stringer, all wealthy men, and extensive Improvements are to be made, beginning in October, when I expect to return to Denver to superintend the work. A new grandstand is to be built. The old fences are to be torn down and replaced with new and modern railings and pickets. The betting shed is to bo enlarged. A new paddock will be erected and a number of new barns will be put up. It is the intention to have no mixed meetings in the future. A meeting of thirty-live days exclusively for runners will lie held in June and July and a trotting meeting will be held in October each year. In this way the running races will be decided over the mile track in the future. In the past the mile track has been given over to the trotters and the runners have used the seven-eighths of a mile track."
