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RIVERSIDE PARK MEETING KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 14. While the Riverside Park meeting is still seven weeks away, the track is beginning to show signs of life, there being upwards of eighty horses quartered there, most of them shipped direct from New Orleans. Condition books for the first weeks racing were issued some time ago and call for a higher class of horses than in former years. The manner in which it was written evidently appealed to horsemen, f or already the club is swamped with applications for stabling room. At the present time there are twenty-two Missouri-bred two-year-olds stabled there, the majority of them belonging to M. J. Bar-rons and T. J. Pendergast, local breeders, and B. A. Jones of Parnell, Mo. One of the many improvements completed is in the roofs of all the barns, which have been extended out ten feet, forming a conv-pletely covered ring around the barns under which trainers can cool out and walk their horses in all kinds of weather;
