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IMPROVEMENTS AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville, Ky., July 21. Many Improvements have been begun on the grounds of the New Louisville Jockey Club at Churchill Downs that. will be pushed to completion before the opening of the fall race meeting in September. Tho fence running from the clubhouse around the turn to the quarter iost has been torn away, exposing to view the row of stables behind the old high fence and improving tlie view of that part of the track from the grandstand. Superintendent Kccgan has raised the track all around on the inside after doing a lot of top soiling and he is lowering the field on the lower end of tho backstrctch, where a hedge now stands, so it will be possible to stand on the ground anywhere near the stand, betting ring and paddock and see every bit of the racing. The long stable adolnlng the paddock will be removed to a point below the clubhouse on the upper turn and the size of the paddock in-closure materially increased. The last relic of Col. M. Lewis Clarks regime; the picturesque clubhouse on the backstrctch, now in an advanced stage of decay, will shortly be entirely removed and in its place will be erected a handsome modern cottage for the use of the track superintendent and his family. One of the most important improvements proposed is the enlarging of the brick lawn in front of the grandstand and betting ring. Ultimately it will be extended out fifteen feet, perhaps, and the part taken from the big course will be borrowed from the smaller Inside track. When this is done the homestretch will be somewhat narrower, but the first turn will be widened considerably, an improvement which will tend to avoid crowding as the horses make the turn. The inside track may finally bo sown to blucgrass with the idea of providing a turf course.
