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MANY HORSES AT BELMONT Record Winter Colony Now in Quarters at Westchester Racing Associations Big Plant. NEW YORK, N. T., Dec. 9. The largest thoroughbred colony that has ever wintered at Belmont Park is now quartered there. Tear by year the beautiful course of the Westchester Racing Association is becoming more popular among horsemen as a winter resort for their thoroughbreds. Superintendent IT. I. Pels states that about four hundred horses are stabled at the plant. Thi3 number will be greatly increased before the end of the week by the arrival of many which were campaigned to the end of the Maryland season. Among the more notable horses quartered at Belmont Park is the Fair Stables Sara-zen, conqueror of Epinard in the third International Special race at Latonia. The gelding is in excellent conditon. He has been turned out for a month. Trainer Max Hirsch is confident that he will carry his juvenilo and three-year-old form over the winter and into his four-year-old year. Hirsch makes no secret of the fact that he expects great things of Sarazen next year. Work on the construction of the new secretarys office at Belmont Park is being rushed while the favorable weather lasts. It will not be interrupted until inclement weather sets in. It will be finished in the spring.
