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j i H0MEW00D TRACK PROGRESS Work of Completing Plant Now Under Way — Ready to Erect Buildings and Stables. A recent visit by a representative of Daily Racing Form to Homewood. the site of the Illinois Jockey Clubs new course, found considerable progress since last visiting the property. Xo physical changes are discernable to one passing by in a motor car, but insiije the grounds many improvements are to be seen. A hard gravel road is now in the course of e-ompletion. This road runs from the main gate, off the highway, and circles the entiro racing strip of a mile and an eighth. Another road meets it on the north end of the track. The road was laid out originally before the frost was out of the ground and as a consequence suffe-red from the bad weather eiie ountered the past few weeks. With the coming of better weather the- road has been practically made over and it will now be possible for teams with material of all kinds to reach the track proper. The- one great drawback heretofore has-been the fact that the teams and motor trucks could not negotiate the mud and the road broke through in many places. With this element e-orree-ted. it is now expected that work will be carried on in earnest. The excavations for the grandstand and clubhouse foundations have been dug and the forms to hold the concrete are all in readiness to place in their proper places. The pouring of concrete is to be started this week. Once the foundations are ready and the steel is on the ground it will not take long to erect the stands and clubhouse. The steel is expected not later than May 10. Xo new stables have been built, but the contract has been given out for the erection of fourteen new ones. This will make a total of seventeen in all. Each stable will have 4.8 stalls and they are modern in every respect. The new stables are to be starte-d within a day or so. The track itself is practically finished and part of the rails have been put up. Material for the working of the track into a racing condition has been ordered and it will take no time- to have it in first class condition. It is a mile and an eighth course with well banked turns and of good width. William Billy Myers is in daily attendance and with his vast experience of race track building it is a foregone- cone-lusion that everything will be in tip top shape- when the gates are opened for the inaugural meeting. The man who transformed the racing strip at Saratoga Springs into one of the fastest and safest courses is all agog with his newest work and assures that the- Homewood coarae will be on a par with an in the-l country for speed and safety.
