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Show HEW RACE TRACK I SS BEING BUILT I Staid Folks of Now Hampshire to Have Fastest Course in the Country. ; I SETH GRIFFIN IS SUPERINTENDING WORK Ho Known as Rockingham Park: To Ro Completed by Next Spring. Trlbuni Pperlsl Sporting Se'-.les. CONCORD, N 11 . Nnv The race track now In process of construction In I New Hampshire, which will be the new- J est course to rses under the jurts- rllctlon of the Jockey cluh, will be known Rockingham Park. Work Is being pushed rapidly on ine track, and It Is expected thai U Will no completed by ! Mh. 16) IMS. All departments of the Vork j nre In Ihe hands of experts, fleth Griffin, who hns superintended the building of some Of the fartest tracks In the coun-tr coun-tr including those at Readvtlle. Memphis, Rlgb and Brighton Bench, has been ul Siilrn from the beginning, and has genera! supervision over all others ; his Instructions being to build the fastest I track In the COUdtry, I font which he expresses ex-presses perfect confidence In being able CO perform Conditions Favorable. Mi Qrlflln states that In no place have the conditions heen so favorable for the successful consummation of th hopes of fiiHt race track projectors as they ars .a ."nlrn. where the fnrm land of a few montha ago is being converted into a mammoth racing arena , And sporting park of the most rlnborato pretensions. The loam which was taken from the top Of the ground Is of the finest f Htv for the n-ack surface. The track will Include a threequarter-mlle straightaway, on and one-. it,iii i miles, with a mile steeplechase. Just' Inside, all of which are ion feet In width. In addition ther will be ; seven-idlghts ol a mile and a mile chute i feature which attaches to no other track In New England. It Is predicted thai the six furlongs course will, beyond snj doubt, be the fastest In the country, "vving to the fact that the pulnt of Starting will be on a descending grade J The buildings comprise a handsome i lubl SS, grand -t.ond of steel atruc- ture with seating accommodations for y't re op If a field stand capable of .-aims l'"1 peopb !: Illon. a Jocko s nii.ni paddock and stnblcs. with commodious com-modious Miall room for S00 horses. The j buildings will be Colonial In style Splendid railroad accommodations will be II provided. I |