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j NEW BARNS AT SHREVEPORT Management Forced to Add More Stable Facilities by Demand. Accommodations Overtaxed at Present, With Cattle Barns of State Fair Pressed Into Service. SHREVEPORT, La., Oct. 17 Construction of two modern barns got under way Monday morning at the State Fair Grounds, which, when completed, will provide stabling accommodations for forty-eight more thoroughbreds that will participate in racing during the twenty-five days of horse racing under the auspices of the State Jockey Club here beginning next Saturday afternoon. Finding it impossible to meet the demand for stalls reservations, track superintendent Tom J. Brovn placed an increased crew of carpenters to work this morning with hopes of having the new structures ready for occupancy by Wednesday. These stalls will be reserved for some of the better grade of thoroughbreds that will come from River Downs and Sportsmans Park, meetings which are still in progress in Chicago and Cincinnati. The stabling accommodations have been overtaxed for several days with a number of horses temporarily quartered in the cattle barns of the Louisiana State Fair association, which must be vacated before the opening of the season, because of the cattle exhibit which is a part of the annual fair. The ten new barns erected, earlier, proved to be insufficient facilities for the housing of thoroughbreds at the State Fair Grounds and the new structures Avill occupy the only Continued on thirty-fourth page. NEW BARNS AT SHREVEPORT Continued from first page. available building sites of the present, it was announced by officials. When, occupied by the influx .from the North for competition at the Caddo Parrish track before moving on to New Orleans, Miami, and Los Angeles for the lengthy winter racing season, the total number of horses jwill approach 400, triple the number that was available for the staging of the nineteen-day meeting a year ago. Several thousand enthusiasts inspected the grounds throughout the day Sunday, as it was the formal "open house" day of the State Jockey Club and all expressed surprise at the numerous improvements effected since the close of the season last year. Additional shelter for the betting department, installation of the new approximate odds and result board, building of a club house near the finish line, and new press box are the improvements. However, chief interest was manifested in the thoroughbreds by the flock of visitors and the stabling area was well patronized throughout the day as the fans looked over the prospective starters on the opening days program of seven races that will be offered. Probable starters in the mile and seventy yards Inaugural Handicap, principal race of the initial program, attracted most attention. With the entire official personnel on the job by mid-week, everything will be put in readiness for the opening of what promises to be the most successful brand of thoroughbred sport offered to residents of north Louisiana and West Texas, and should bring many fans from the nearby Lone Star state, j which has been without racing for some I time.
