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PREPARING FOR BELMONT PARK MEETING. New York, August 9. Although the Belmont Park autumn meeting is three weeks off, superintendent Pela is working hard making, preparations for it. He has a considerable force employed in improving the long, straight stretch which Is one of the big tracks distinguishing fuatures. He has found a considerable supply of soil which, he thinks, will make an admirable surface or coating material, and with it lie hopes, to make the Futurity course faster than ever. He thinks it is the. best top dressing which has yet been found available for the Long Island tracks. Mr. Pelz is hard at work on the stable room problem; for owners now at Saratoga and elsewhere do not. believe in waiting until the last moment, before providing for the stabling of their horses for the Belmoht. Park meeting. Already there are triplications for all the stable room at the track, and then some. There are. not uuoiigh stalls for the accommodation of 1.000 horses at Belmont Park, and not iess than 1.200 horses belong to the active divisions of racing stablou for which room is being sought.
