view raw text
Work Is Progressing On New Latonia Track Running Strip Laid Out and Now Attention Being Given Barn Area FLORENCE, Ky., May 31. Work on the new Latonia race course is "progressing favorably," according to Matt Winn Williamson, president of the Kentucky Jockey Club. With plans for a 1957 opening definitely shelved, to permit ample time for the completion of the track, Williamson and his associates are now pointing for the inaugural meet to be staged in August, 1958. "And that is a date we shall definitely meet," Williamson said. At the present time grading work on the 480 acres of Latonia is continuing under the supervision of superintendent. Fred G. Capps who has been on the job all winter. "Iwould estimate that 60 per cent of this workv is completed, the running strip is laid out, and we are now working on the barn area," Capps stated. "We will then be ready to send the machines onto the parking grounds, and it looks like a good two months work before we will be out of the woods with our grading." Capps also said that drainage pipe is being laid, and that the valet parking space near the grandstand entrance is being cleared. Herbert J. Shaw, admissions manager who will also direct parking lot activities, has been in close contact with the Kentucky Jockey Club in an advisory capacity about the valet parking grounds. Steel for. the grandstand has been fabricated and is now awaiting shipment here for the start of erection. The steel will reach the course, in August, with the framework awaiting an early September starting date. "This will still give us plenty of time to put the structure up before winter sets in," said President Williamson. "We have no need to hurry, and right now long range plans call for the course to be completely finished by July 1, 1958."
