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SCHEDULE OF RACING DATES FOE THE NEW YORK TRACKS. New York, February 9. Racing dates for the season of 190C on the mctroiolltan tracks were allotted at a meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club last night. The season will open at Aqueduct. Monday, April 10. and will close at the same track, Thursday, November 15. Tills makes a total of 1S1 racing days, one less than last year, because April 15, the first day on which racing can annually begin under the New York state law falls on Sunday. The. dates as allotted are as follows: Name of Organization. Track. Dates. Days. Queens County Jockey Club Aqueduct Monday, April 1G, to Thursday, April 20 10 Metropolitan Jockey Club . Jamaica Friday, April 27, to Wednesday, May 9 11 Westchester Racing Association Belmont Park Thursday, May 10, to Saturday May 19 9 Brooklyn Jockey Club Gravesend Monday, May 21, to Saturday. May 20 0 Westchester Racing Association Belmont Park Monday, May 28, to Wednesday, June 0 ! Brooklyn Jockey Club Jravesend Thursday, June 7. to Wednesday, June 20 12 Coney Island Jockey Club Sheepshead Bay Thursday. June 21, to Tuesday, July 10 17 Brighton Beach Racing Association Brighton Beach Wednesday. July 11, to Saturday, August 4 22 Saratoga Racing Association Saratoga Monday, August , to Friday1, August 21 I Couey Island Jockey Club Sheepshead Bay Saturday, Sept. 1, to Saturday, Sept. 15 IS Brooklyn Jockey Club Jravesend Monday, Sept. 17, to Saturday, Sept, 29 12 Brighton Beacli Racing Association Brighton Beach Monday, Oct. 1, to Saturday, Oct. Westchester Racing Association Belmont Park Monday, Oct. S. to Saturday, Oct. 20 12 Metropolitan Jockey Club Jamaica Monday, Oct. 22, to Friday, Nov. 2 11 Queens County Jockey Club Aqueduct Saturday, Nov. 3, to Thursday, Nov. 15 11 This gives Aqueduct a total of twenty -one days, a gain of one, over last year, and Jamaica twenty-two, a loss of two days, as compared with the 1905 schedule. The other two tracks get the same number of days they had last year Belmont Park", Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay thirty each, Brighton Beacli twenty-eight and Saratoga twenty-three. Last year there were only two meetings at Belmont Park and Gravesend. This year there will be three at each track, the dates for the spring meetings alternating. ..The stewards Iiad uothiug to say with referenca,o mesBUejrs application for. dates at.JiiSjEmpire. "City track. If the matter should receive" favorable consideration later, the only time available will be durlug the period of twenty-three days at Saratoga. Belmont Park gets Decoration Day, May 30, and Sheepshead Bay will have Independence Day, July 4, and Labor Day, September 3. The Carter Handicap will be run at Aqueduct, April 1C; the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica, April 27; the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park, May 10; the Brooklyn Handicap at Gravesend, May 21; the Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay, June 21; the Brighton Handicap at Brighton Beach, July 14; the Saratoga Handicap at Saratoga, August C, and the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay, September 1. The schedule of dates for the Jockey Clubs second circuit, which Is to lie composed of the tracks at Washington, Baltimore, Buffalo, Providence, Salem and probably one or two other points, lias not been completed. Only these dates were announced: Name of Organization. Track. Dates. Davs. Washington Jockey Club Beunings Monday, March 20, to Saturday April 4 "18 Maryland Jockey Club Pimlieo Mouday, April li, to Saturday, April 28 12 Washington Jockey Club Burnings Friday, Nov. 10, to Saturdy, Dec. 1 14
