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Boero Has Fair Grounds P rog ra m N ea r Completion Includes Extensions to Both Stands, Riders Recreation Room NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 17. Directors -of the Fair Grounds, as well as the early arrivals among horsemen who have shipped in yearlings, are congratulating general superintendent Charles Boero for the thoroughness and dispatch with which he is completing enlargement of the Fair Grounds grandstand and clubhouse and installation of new mutuel departments. In addition, Boero has included a spacious recreation room for jockeys. It will be completely equipped with tables, including a billiard table, television, radio and refrigerator and will give the riders an opportunity to spend their afternoons pleasantly. Boero practically was raised at the Fair Grounds. He is a brother-in-law to the late F. P. Letellier, who was one of the most popular horsemen in racing. Boeros sister-, wife of the well-remembered turfman, still maintains a small stable. One-time owner and trainer of several horses,. Boero knows every need and comfort of horsemen during the past few seasons has become a near-magician with the transportation of muddy or heavy going into firm footing overnight on the racing strip itself. He has drawn "all the plans for the sweeping improvements and has directed the work from hour to hour. Meeting the requirements of the engineers who will install the additional wiring and machines for the American Total-istator Company, Boero has come in for hearty thanks from the experts who come in; before each season of racing, to ready the mutuel system. The busy Fair Grounds superintendent worked under the late Teddy Correjolles and, on the latters death, took over the reins. He made a close study of the enormous engineering job done in rebuilding the track and since that time has "mani-cured" the course to such perfection that the only complaint ever heard now is that it doesnt stay muddy long enough to allow horses partial to that kind of footing a fair chance to get a share of the purses even though they are entered when the course has been flooded by a downpour. Besides the work on the grandstand and clubhouse, Boero also is directing the reconditioning and disinfecting of the barns and says the whole plant will be ready by October 15 more than a montlvbefore the opening date, which this year will be November-26. The racing strip can be put in shape in a few days, as Boero has kept it up nearly all summer.
