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INCREASE BOX FACILITIES Tropical Park to Add Sixteen New Reserved Seat Sections. Horses Beginning to Move Into Miami Area for Coming Winter Season of Sport MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 8. Expansion of box facilities are being planned for Tropical Park, which opens the Florida racing campaign here on December 19, it was announced by president Norman W. Graves today. Sixteen new boxes will be added, according to present plans, to augment the present equipment of fifty grandstand boxes and fifteen master boxes on the clubhouse mezzanine i floor. Meanwhile, horses are beginning .to move into Miami to prepare for the coming racing season. Trainer George Phillips, who has always raced his horses at Tropical, already has shipped a powerful squadron of thirteen horses owned by De Witt Pages Maemere Farm. They are stabled at present at Hialeah and likely will be vanned over to Tropical for their races. Another powerful stable which will campaign at Tropical will be the Woolford Farm outfit owned by Herbert M. Woolf of Kansas City, and trained by Ben Jones. The Woolford silks flew high this year with the crack three-year-old Lawrin going on from his Flamingo Stakes victory in Florida to a sensational triumph in the Kentucky Derby. It is not known as yet whether Lawrin will accompany the Woolford winter division to Miami. Work has been going along rapidly under the direction of superintendent Henry C. Collins in landscaping the attractive grounds and tending the mile racing strip. Collins reports that the foliage and shrubbery has developed well during the off-season and visitors to the Gables course will note a marked improvement in its appearance this winter.
