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PADDOCKS FOR SDN BATHS Hialeah Constructing Enclosures for Benefit of Equine Inhabitants. Eight Roomy, Well-Fenced-in Paddocks to Be Built 2,500 Applications for Stall Room. MIAMI, Fla., Oct 11 The benefits of the tropical rays of Floridas balmy sunshine will be stressed at Hialeah Park this winter for the meeting which runs from January 12 to March 4. Added to the improvements already made by Joseph E. Widener, president of the Miami Jockey Club, will be a series of ""sunshine paddocks" available to all horses. Marshall Cassidy, assistant to the president, will plot out the paddocks on his next trip to Florida in the near future. According to present plans, some eight roomy, well-fenced-in paddocks will be constructed, possibly four on the southeast of the stable area and another four on the northeast end. In discussing these paddocks, president Widener said: "Horses, like human beings, thrive on the invigorating qualities of Floridas sunshine, particularly the younger horses. That thoroughbreds do well in Florida, away from the damp and cold weather, is best evidenced by the number of horses which winter at Hialeah and then go elsewhere in the spring, fit and ready to win important stake races." The latest count brings up the stable applications for the Hialeah meeting to 2,500 horses, an all-time record-breaking demand. Acceptance of applications approved by the stall committee are now-in the mails and those allotted quarters may take up their reservations on November 1.
