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DIAGRAM OF BELMONT PARKAS NUMEROUS TRACKS Since racing has been resumed over the most extensive and commodious plant in America it Is fitting that Daily Kaciiig iorm readers should IKS given an opportunity to refresh their memories as to its various courses Over four hundred acres are in the Belmont Park enclosure and the Wcstchester Racing Associa ¬ tion has several hundred additional adjoining acres in reserve The great course is three tracks in one the grass truck and jumping course being immediately within the circuit of the main racing track The main track Is a standard rolled dirt and screened course a mile and a half long and one hundred feet wide The grass track is one and threeeighths miles long and the jumping course the inside track of the three is a mile and a quarter long At the eastern end of the triple tracks a secondary mile long working track is laid out on a tangent to the main tracks that is across the end in front of the second group of stables and in full view as are all tho tracks of the viewing stands aild the clubhouse A twomile steeplechase course winds its serpentine way te length of the meadow formed within the triple tracks which It crosses at the end thence curves Into the meadow of the mile track and then swings northward far beyond the triple tracks which it again joins at the western end of the course There are two steeple ¬ chase courses for a shorter course is formed by the hurdle stretch nearest the viewing stands and a portion of the longer course that winds at random down the triple track meadow enclosure There enclosureThere are four supplementary tracks or chutes formed by extending the sides of the main track on the east ald west and in the same manner by extending the sides of the mile track north and south In that way a straightaway srVneighths nf a mile track is formed out of the main track ending direcKy in front of the grandstand while the extension of the backstretch westward makes a one and threeeighths miles course to the finish with only one turn around the eastern curve of the main track On the mile track directly north of the main tracks straightaway to the ea t lefthand races can be run and tho sides of the track extend into straightaway chutes similar to those of the main track Furthermore the west side of the mile track connects with the oast end of the main track making It possible to run horses from one track into the other lius allowing for a11 a11great great variety of track forms and combination races of any distances desired At Belinont Park races are run to the left instead of to the right asls customary on all other Ameri ¬ can tracks
