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FLORIDA RACING BEGINS IN FEBRUARY. The funning meeting at Tampa. Florida, is to begin Wednesday. February .". The program liook for the first week of racing has been issued on the basis . » five races daily. Of the thiity ra.es provided in the liook. thirteen are for purses of 110 and seventeen for pnrs.-s of .-«0. This will lie light picking compared with that afforded by the richer Xotv Orleans purses and stakes, but the considerable list of horses already in preparation for in inoval to Tampa are those that would not be likely lo have l.iuch chance of winning at New Orleans and many of them may do very well at Tampa if the meeting lasts long. Being experimental, its duration is a problem awaiting solution. Its promoters think it will pay sufficiently well.
