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HORSE HOSPITAL INNOVATION Site Selected at Belmont Park With Dr. Cassius Way in Charge Plan Operating Room. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 8 A horse hospital is the latest innovation for Belmont Park and, according to the present plans, it will be ready for the spring meeting. Dr. Cassius Way, a well known New York veterinary surgeon, will be in charge, and the new venture will be operated similar to any public hospital. A site has been selected "up on the hill," and plans include an operating room, X-ray room, and several private stalls to cater to the needs of sick horses. Doctors will be invited to send their charges to the new hospital for operations of any description and a moderate fee will be charged. The site which has been agreed upon was formerly a public kitchen operated by Mrs. Raymond, but was not used last season. The building will be remodeled and brought up to date in every respect. The operating room will be equipped with a special table and will in every respect resemble the ones in use at the different hospitals. "Every known type of sanitary precaution will be employed. In addition to the operating room, stocks will be placed in another room in which horses can be placed for castration and other treatments. At present horsemen racing on Long Island tracks are forced to send horses to Brooklyn for operations and other serious treatments, and it is believed that the new venture will be a boon to horsemen. Little or no time will be lost in moving a horse from his stall to the hospital, whereas under the present conditions the trip to Brooklyn is a long and sometimes dangerous one. Joseph E. Widener is in favor of the idea, and he is convinced that the hospital will be of immense benefit to horsemen on the different New York tracks. Several horsemen at Belmont Park pointed out that the hospital would fill a long-felt want, and in case a valuable horse required an operation trainers could keep in touch with his condition at all times, instead of relying upon telephone conversations, as at present. .
