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RIVERSIDE PARK APPLICATIONS Heaviest Demand for Stalls in History of Popular Track at Kansas City, Missouri. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 9 That Riverside Park is not going to suffer from a lack of horses is evident, judging from the numerous applications that are pouring in to the jockey clubs headquarters here. Requests for stabling accommodations have far exceeded the managements fondest dream and as a result officials are looking forward to staging their greatest meeting. With the increase in purse money announced, many owners are requesting stalls here that have not raced at Riverside before and the caliber of horses far exceeds In quality those that have raced here in, previous years. Work on the track and buildings is already under way and numerous improvements will be noticed when the meeting gets under way May 28. The track itself is already in first class condition due to the fact that many horses wintered here and were galloping practically all winter. Work on re-roofing is under way and by the time the big shipments of horses from other tracks is under way all stables will be in first class condition. The grandstand is being made ready for the painters and paint will not be spared in putting stands and other buildings in tip top shape for the opening. Judge E. K. Thornton, who again will be presiding steward, returned from a trip to the West Coast, where he had spent the winter, said that horsemen in that part of the country showed great interest in the condition book for the first nine days and he expects that many owners will ship from that section of the country at the close of the Bay Meadows meeting.
