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j NEW JOCKEYS ROOM AT j ARLINGTON PARK . . New jockey quarters, with the most modern equipment and appointments, will be ready for the riding colony when it moves over to Arlington Park for the opening of its thirty-day meeting on June 29, announced secretary Roy Carruthers here Wednesday. The new jockeys room, clerk of scales office and colors room will be located under the main grandstand off the tunnel leading from the paddock to the track and will be much more convenient for the riders, valets and officials than the old quarters in the administration building on the far side of the large paddock enclosure. The new quarters will be just thirty feet from the English walking ring and close to the points in the saddling paddock, where the boys will be "legged up" on their mounts. More than seventy lockers have been installed in the main jockeys room and two antechambers. The office for the clerk of . scales and the scales room adjoins the large jockeys room. Three showers and other new equipment have been installed in the shower room. The jocks room will be in charge of L. R. "Irish" Boyle, who directs the quarters at Hialeah Park, Fla. It is likely that the "closed room" system of valeting will be effective as last year. The "closed room" system employs association valets for all riders, although exceptions likely will be made in the event that jockeys coming in for stake engagements bring their own valets with them.
