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BUILDS PALACE FOR HIS RACE HORSES. Elaborate Stables with Enclosed Exercise Shed Being Constructed by A. K. Macomber. By Ed Cole. New York. February 9. — That A. K. Macomber is going to have a mansion of a stable at Belmont Iark for his hor-es when racing in the east is made apparent by a fiance at the plans. According to the contract, there are to be two -table buildings containing twenty-five stalls each situated in the old Manice Gardens, located just above the Turf and Field clubhouse at Belmont Iark. The stalls tire so designed that the front of each will be enclosed with glass, there being a fourteen foot walk for parading horses. Bach stable will be 300 feet long. Around the two stables there will be an enclosed exercising shed twenty feet wide and about 1.000 feet in circumference, which will permit more strenuous exercise for the horses than walking. The kitchen and living rooms for the help and Mr. Jennings home qaarters will be built at one end of the stable buildings, but apart from them. In another spot will be a garage and a boiler room. It will be the most pretentious and up-to-date training quarters in this country, the cost being estimated at about 5,000. According to agreement with the Westchester Association, the buildings will be passed oor to the association at the end of five years, after which whoever occupies them will have to rent them the same as other stables. The contractor John Olsen. estimates having the stalls ready for occupancy by May 1. By building such elaborate stables and an enclosed track Mr. Macomber has left the impression that his horses may winter at Belmont Park next year in stead of Charleston. On that subject Mr. Jennings had little to say. stating that all sorts of things could happen in a year. Still there is no question the buildings have been designed to stand off the cold and bleak winds of winter. New Stake to Become Important. The Coaching Club Stakes for fillies, which has forty-five entries, will enlighten owners and other-, concerning the pick of the various stables in the three-year old filly line. That the best from each establishment has been entered there is little ques tion. and many of them importation* that eitlier did not show well last year or were not shown at all. This will become quite a valuable stake in time — as soon as the intentions of the originators of the stake are fulfilled, which will be in 1919. In that year it will be known as the Oaks, after the old-established stake of that name run in England, and could almost be tinned a sister race to the l erby. being run two days after the historic Epsom classic. These are the kind of events which do much for the perpetuation of the turf, owing to the interest centered on them from the birth of a foal. The? do much to enhance the value of the thoroughbred, owing to future opportunities in the way of earning capacity. Now that the turf is apparently coining into its own. it will not be many years before cacti association will have a Derby and an Oaks; in fact, the Empire City management has billed a Derby for this year worth .00;. The old Brooklyn Derby is run every year, as are the Kentucky and Latonia Derbys. It is fashionable to liook such feature-, and prospects look bright for every association to follow the lead in this respect.
