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BALTIMORE TO HAVE RACING. Wealthy citizens and well-known turfmen have started a movement for the organization of a high-class horseracing club, after the style of the once famous old Maryland Jockey Club and the celebrated Pimlico track. The movement had its inception from the success of the recent races at Pimlico of the Maryland Hunt Club. One promoter of the project has already guaranteed the payment of the purees to the amount of 5,000. The club is to number 200 members. The promoters of the new club are assured that they will have an organization composed of such a class of citizens that the Jockey Club will not hesitate to give them desirable spring and fall date3 for meetings of ten or more days each. So sanguine are they that they are talking of reviving the Dixie, Breckinridge, Great Pimlico Handicap Steeplechase, Bowie and other old-time stake races. When the new club starts the harness racing in Maryland will be confined to half-mile tracks, as the only other mile track of the State Herring Run has been abandoned. The harness racers will not object, as they prefer to see this style of racing on tracks where the horses pass them twice in a mile. As is well known, the Pimlico racetrack is, when in condition, one of the safest and. fastest of all the circular tracks in America. The promoters say the cost of getting the Pimlico course will be trifling compared with the rental expenses on other big tracks, and they will thus be enabled to put up big money to bring the best horses to their meetings.
