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i i i i , I i , i i HARLEM OPENS SATURDAY. Programs for the first seven days of Harlems spring meeting, which opens Saturday, were issued yesterday by secretary Nathanson. The program provides for a diversity of races and all of a nature to prove pleasing to race goers and horse owners. In all there are forty-two races carded and twenty-one of them, from a spectators standpoint, are what the public desire, as they are all at a mile or over. Interspersed throughout the book are twenty-one other events, many of them for two-year-olds and others for older sprinters. From a spectacular point of view the numerous steeplechase races will be interesting. These jumping affairs will be features of each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday over both the short and long routes of Harlems new steeplechase course. In the matter of purses the program shows that during the first week at the Proviso course the sum of 3,000 will be divided among winning horses. Of that amount ,200 will be for contenders iu the stake events. Saturdays card should secure a large number of entries, as the conditions of each race are such as to attract the best horses now racing in Chicago. Harlems inaugural card also includes the Austin Stakes at one and a sixteenth miles. It will be worth ,000, of which ,500 goes to the winner, 00 to the second and 00 to the third horse. There have been 111 nominations made to this stake and among the probable starters will be the following : Barrack, Tenby, Harry Nutter, Potente, The Lady, Sam McKeever, The Monk, Vohicer, Molo. Sam Fullen, Cambrian, Handpress, Brisk, Gold Fox, Larkspur, The Roman, Fly By Night, Flor-izar, Toribio, Orimar and The Elector. The conditions of the first race at six furlongs should bring together a large field of speedy ones. F. T. Wood, owner of May Beach, says that she will start. Woods grand mare will have fast company in some of the following eligibles : Hermoso, Dr. Walmsley, OConnell, Bangle. Algareta, Abe Furst, Ben Ledi, Battus, Ed Gartland II., Georgie, Headwater, Minyon, Nobleman and St. Cuthbert. The second race, Saturday, is at four and a half furlongs for two-year-olds, and may bring out Miss Bennett, Benson Caldwell, Denizulu, Fancy Wood. Garry Hermann, Gold Badge, Money Muss, Odnor, Silverdale and The Cuban Girl, and possibly Sofala. In the third race, atone and an eighth miles, a good lot of selling platers may be looked for, and in the fifth an opportunity is offered for a bruising contest between a bunch of fast three-year-olds in the six furlong sprint. The sixth race is another one for three-year-olds and upward, but the distance is one mile and it will give Advance Guard a chance to take the measure of Boney Boy, Cambrian, Donna Rita, Eva Rice, Florizar, Flaunt, Great Bend, Jolly Roger, John Baker and Malay. Workmen are rapidly putting the finishing touches to Harlems new grandstand and betting ring and everything will be in readiness for Saturday afternoon. A feature of the sport will be daily musical programs furnished by a complete orchestra under the direction of Banks Cregier. The track has been given a new cushion by Superintendent Myers and it is rapidly rounding into shape. Hart Dernham, representing the Harlem Jockey Club, will be at Hawthorne until 9:30 oclock Friday morning to receive entries for Saturday afternoons races at Harlem.
