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RACING GOSSIP FROM THE EAST. New York, February 18. Superintendent William A. Gorman of Belmont Park Is busy these days restoring the big racing plant. The track was pretty well dismantled last fall for the aviation meet. The infield was cleared of the timers stand, apparatus for displaying names of jockeys, steeplechase jumps and the rails of the track proper were removed. A number of loads of brush have been brought in from tlie central part of Long Island. Tills will be used in the construction of the steeplechase course, which is one of the safest in this country. Tlie fences of tlie mile training track were erected some time ago. and horsemen quartered at tlie course will be able to train .on thisioflHd at their pleasure. The training track has a good safe bottom and even cushion, and the nature of the soil is sucli that it dries out quickly after a storm. It is kept nicely harrowed and the levelers render It fast. Trainers Thomas J. Healey, Silas Veitch, Louis Fcustel, H. F. Carman, William Hogah and -others make use of the training track aluiosj exclusively for early spring training. . . M. F. Sheedy, formerly a rider on the eastern and southern traeks, who was associated with William Oliver, returned from the west -recently. He will handle a few horses on the local tracks this season. W. C. Fessenden, whose- ehcslnutcolt, Henry Clay Bye, won the Crescent City Derby of 1001. is ou the lookout for a couple of useful horses to race hereabouts this year.
