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EMPIRE CITY TRACK IDEAL COURSE NEW YORK N Y July 15 The Empire City course is the only regulation shaped mile track on the metropolitan circuit with turns and stretches exactly equal in lengths ample in width and dead level from start to finish To build it and equip it on the rocky rolling ground cost William H Clark close to threequarters of a million dollars twenty years ago but that enterprising sportsman was determined to have a track on which the spec ¬ tators could get a good view of every part of every race and on which all horses might have an equal chance
