. Il Belmont Park, 1905-1968. Piste (Horse Racing). Il paese, ma Belmont Park era un furlong più a lungo. Il lavoro sui record-dimensione corso principale su cui le gare sono state per essere eseguito in senso orario, era iniziato molto tempo prima che la tribuna ha iniziato a prendere forma. All'interno del miglio-e-un-metà principale striscia di sporco, un corso d'erba di un miglio-e-tre ottavi e siepi via di un miglio-e-a-trimestre dovevano essere costruite. La via principale era di avere quattro "scivoli." o estensioni, per permettere di una varietà di distanze di gara e, ad est e ad una tangente a un miglio di formazione via stava diventando sempre più riconoscibile. U

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. Belmont Park, 1905-1968.. Racetracks (Horse racing). the country, but Belmont Park's was a furlong longer. Work on the record-size main course, on which races were to be run clockwise, was started long before the grandstand began to take shape. Inside the mile-and-a-half main dirt strip, a grass course of a mile-and-three-eighths and a steeplechase track of a mile-and-a-quarter were to be built. The main track was to have four "chutes." or extensions, to permit of a variety of race distances, and, to its East, and at a tangent, a one-mile training track was becoming recognizable. Under the watchful eyes of Belmont, Whit- ney, and other leaders of the WRA, construc- tion proceeded as close to schedule as almost daily crises permitted while the Summer of 1903 faded into Fall. A mile-long ornamental iron picket fence, painted bottle-green and topped with gilded spears, enclosed the front of the track property on Hempstead Turn- pike. The historic fence still exists. The foundation of the luxurious clubhouse at the West end of the grandstand, to which it was to be joined by an enclosed bridge, was laid in October. This was not a clubhouse in the modern racetrack context—a more desir- able section of the grandstand to which the public is admitted at a higher entry fee—but a true clubhouse in the membership sense. It was open only to members of the WRA and their guests. Plans at this point provided for the con- struction of an automobile race course as well as a horse track, but they were dropped. A thoroughbred track of the magnificence en- visioned for Belmont Park was undertaking enough. At first, the target date for the opening of the new track was late in 1904, but the death of William C. Whitney in February of that year held up construction for a few months and the sights were re-set for 1905. Iron work on the 6.50-foot-long grandstand got under way in May, 1904, but was stymied for a while by a political squabble. But, by the mid- dle of the year, t

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