Saratoga Made More Beautiful, Daily Racing Form, 1921-04-09

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SARATOGA MADE MORE BEAUTIFUL NEW YORK N Y April 8 Richard T Wilson president of the Saratoga Racing Association is delighted with the recordbreaking entry list for the stakes to be run during the August meeting at the Spa and enthusiastically declared that the 1121 meeting will be the greatest in the history of Americas famous racing center centerThe The Saratoga race track is the particular pride of Mr Wilson and it has been his hobby to make more improvements for every year of racing Re ¬ cently he completed the purchase of quite a bit of ground outside the course and the extra space acquired will be used as a parking space for auto ¬ mobiles Mr Wilson has ordered removed all the old buildings outside of the track The old hotel which stood on Union avenue near the main entrance to the track is being moved over into Horse Haven where it will be utilized as a public boarding place for stable employes The other smaller building also will be utilized for tiie con ¬ venience of horsemen and the public publicThe The grounds are certainly more of a beauty spot than ever adding to Saratogas claim as being the most beautiful race course in America Landscape gardeners already are at work about the grounds Over in the infield the sunken space from which soil was taken a year ago to be used on the track ius now been made into a lake in the center of which a fountain will play continuously


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