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IMPORTANT RACING NEAR Next Wednesday Little Rock will furnish the curtain raiser for the western turf campaign of 1898 The meeting there will afford an oppor copper ¬ tunity unity of sizing up the Derby candidate Ban nockburn nocturne and give interesting glimpses of the form of Harry Duke Boanerges Beaneries Laureate Gath Garth Marquise and othen then good horses known to all who go to the races It will also be the place of debut of a number of 2yearolds as yet un ¬ known to track fame The meeting there will close Thursday April 7 7Next Next in line the Nashville spring meeting opens next Saturday April 1 Several hundred horses are now in active preparation at Cum ¬ berland Borland Park track and the meeting there gives every advance indication of being a good one The principal race of the meeting the Cumber land Prize will be the third raCe of the opening lay and will probably be contested by Presby Presbyter ¬ terian tertian Isabey Isabel Pacemaker Lady of the West Opaque and other 3yearolds Opaque a slash ¬ ing King finelooking interlocking colt by Iroquois Ogarita Bogart will be the dark horse of the race He has never started in a race but has shown great speed in is work aj Memphis This event is at nine furlongs The other closed events of the meet ¬ ing King are thejDuncan Hotel Gerst Gears Brewing Com pany panky Handicap Belle Meade Climax Southern Turf Handicap and Maxwell House Stakes The meeting comes to an end Saturday April 9 9On On the day that the Nashville meeting ends racing will begin at Newport and Memphis The Newport meeting will be an affair of purses only but the stables there are all full and there is no doubt that the meeting will be marked by big fields and fast racing Quality will be best represented at Memphis where the Montgomery Handicap will be the principle feature of the opening day Ornament is in at topweight stoplight but whether the great son of Order will be started or not is an open question If he is sent to the post the field will be reduced in size If he is not a starter the field will probably be com ¬ posed of Boanerges Beaneries 115 Meadowthorpe Meadow 113 Ulysses 110 Salvablo Salvable 108 Harry Duke 108 Buckvidere Duckier 103 Performance 105 Good Times 106 Paul Kauvar Kava 100 Marquise 100 Presby Presbyter ¬ terian tertian 100 Forbush Forbes 97 and Belle of Memphis 92 Here is certainly material for a stirring contest The meeting will end April 30 and during its progress the other stakes to be decided are the Tennessee Derby Gaston Hotel Ardelle Adelle Tennessee Brewing Co New Gayoso Gays Hotel Cotton Steeplechase Luehrmann Lehman Hotel Memphis and Peabody Hotel Handicap Stakes StakesAnd Stakes And then will rapidly follow the inauguration of the important meetings at Louisville St Louis Latonia Antonia and Oakley Ankle while May 7 will set the local turfmen Turkmen and turf followers to work unraveling the problems attendant on fifteen days of racing at Lakeside
