Resurfacing North Randall: Work on Electric Odds Board Nearly Completed--Grandstand and Club House Steel Erected., Daily Racing Form, 1939-05-01

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RESURFACING NORTH RANDALL Work on Electric Odds Board Nearly y Completed — Grandstand and Club House Steel Erected. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 29.— The task of top-soiling the North Randall race course will be started Monday, officials of the Cleveland Jockey Club announced today. Work on the electric odds board is nearing completion and all steel construction on the grandstand and club house is finished. All work will be completed before the inaugural meeting of runners at North Randall gets under way May 27 for thirty-three days. Judges, newspaper reporters and photographic equipment will be located in a small house on the roof of the grandstand at the finish line. All camera finishes magnified twenty times will be displayed for the public to witness. One of the most unusual features of. the plant will be an interior paddock, located on the ground floor of the club house. Before each race, horses will be brought through a Bide door. Saddling may be witnessed by clubhouse patrons from second and third-floor balconies, while grandstanders will be able to make their way to the ground floor ring through a connecting tunnel. *


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