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SANTA ANITA IMPROVEMENTS Everything in Readiness for Opening of Winter Meeting on Saturday, December 31. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 12. The press preview being held this week reveals that everything will be in readiness to open Santa! Anitas fifth fifty-two-day winter racing season on Saturday, December 31. This years extensive improvements will impressively add to the beauty and interest of Santa Anita Park as a show place of southern California and an outstanding tourist attraction that will lure visitors from all parts of the world. The substantial reinforced concrete and steel additions to the clubhouse, with a roof extending over the club area; development of the paddock gardens, with a central ornamental fountain and covered saddling paddock; added landscaping to create a brilliant mid-winter floral display; new batteries Of entrances and exits and general improvements in appointments now make Santa Anita a truly magnificent park. Nominations for the worlds richest turf stakes, the 00,000 added Santa Anita Handicap, to be run on March 4, and the 0,000 added Santa Anita Derby on February 22, represent the greatest horses in training. Already leading stables that have been fixtures in American racing have some 600 ranking thoroughbreds on the grounds and the next two weeks will see the available stalls filled to capacity. The Los Angeles Turf Clubs membership roster, limited to 500, is practically completed and work of assigning the season boxes is now going on. With the Santa Anita races commencing on the last day of the year this season, instead ! of the usual Christmas Day, and followed by the New Years celebration on the following Monday, all indications are for a colorful and record attendance for the banner opening.
