The addition of a Clock Tower and many other alterations it has undergone have improved the Grand Stand very much and it is now quite an imposing edifice. The enlarging of the enclosure is another improvement well conceived, as the attordance at the Race Meetings gets larger and larger every season. The condition of the Course is perfect, level, smooth and as well kept as a billiard table, speaking volumes for the gratuitous labours of theCucxk ofthe Course ts length is forty-four yards short of one mile and a quarter, the straight run-in being about a quarter of a mile, and the races are run with the whip hand to the rails, an acknowledged fault that can never be altered owing to the position of the Stand, The securing of the inner or training course has been a great boon to owners, as it has enabled training to yo on in all weathers, it being necessary to close the racing course during wet weather, thereby necessitating exercising the ponies on the road—a rather unsatisfactory state of affairs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.