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EASTERN RACING DATES. The stewards of the Jockey Club completed the apportionment of racing dates to the various eastern clubs Monday night and turfmen now have the satisfaction of knowing how to plan their campaigns from start to finish of the turf year, so far as tho oast is concerned. Western owners will be gratified by the consideration shown Saratoga. For the first time in years the famous old track, over which racing on an extended scale was revived in the north, after the close of the civil war, is to have such a season of dates free from competition as to assuro its restoration to the high degree of importance and prosperity that formerly made it the most popular rallying point for turfmen in this country. From July 26 to August 5 it will have to compete with Brighton Beach, but after that, until its closing day, Friday, August 25, Saratoga will be the only point in the east where racing will be carried on. It is easy to see that this is a condition that will insure the attendance of the leading eastern stables, and no doubt the hot August days will witness soma sensational struggles botween the horses of tho east and the west. For this the Jockey Club is to be commended. Racing is set to begin over the Bennings track at Washington April 3 and continue two weeks. This is earlier than racing began last year at. the National Capital, the opening day then at Bennings having been April 11. Next in order, , the Queens County Jockey Club will open at Aqueduct track Monday, April 17, for sixteen days, closing Thursday, May 4. This will allow an interval of ono day before tho first of the three groat racing clubs of New York, the Westchester Jockey Club, begins its spring meeting at Morris Park. As has been the custom in former years, the Metropolitan Handicap, won last year by Bowling Brook, will, no doubt, be the central attraction of the opening day, Saturday, May 6. The meeting at Morris Park comes to a close Thursday, May 25. Saturday, May 27, the Brooklyn Jockey Club meeting opens with all the glories and enthusiasm of Brooklyn Handicap day. The meeting at Graves-end will terminate Thursday, June 15. On the Saturday following, June 17, racing will commence at the ever popular Sheepshead Bay track. The Coney Island Jockey Club has recently purchased a tract of land adjoining its present enclosure and will use it to add to the beauties and facilities of its alroady charming course by the sea. The multitude that will assemble there Juno 17 to see an addition to tho illustrious list of Suburban Handicap winners will doubtless note some changes pleasing to tho eye and adding to tho convenience of horseowners. Following tho Sheepshead Bay meeting, which closes July 4, Brighton Beach will open for racing July 5, the meeting there ending August 5. As has already been indicated tho sport at Saratoga will begin July 26 and continue to August 25 inclusive. Tho Saratoga list of stakes is already announced and will bo found such as to command tho approval and patronage of tho leading turfmen of tho country. Saratoga will be tho turning point in tho eastern campaign and will bo followed in orderly succession by the autumn meetings at Sheepshead Bay, Gravesond, Morris Park, Aqueduct, and tho windup, as was the start, will bo at the Bennings track whoro the curtain will fall on tho last day of the month of November.
