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CARTER HANDICAP DAY NEAR AT HAND Whatever may be the case with meetings set for later in the year It now seems certain that the Aqueduct spring meeting will open next Wednesday with all the customary features so far as betting is concerned It being Carter Handicap day and the Carter being the first highly important stake race of the eastern turf year there is sure to be a tremendous gathering to witness its decision decisionThe The Carter received fiftyfive entries of which Charles Edward Ncalon Uncle Jacobite Halaca Cairngorm Tony Faust J C Core Cohort Ale theuo Veil Johnnie Blake King Cobalt C TV Burt and Transvaal have been declared This leaves forty eliglbles including many of the fastest horses of the day Being a dash of seven furlongs ex ¬ treme speed is a requisite and Dr Gardner 124 Jack Atkin 122 Glorifier 122 Baby Wolf 118 Meelick 112 Gretna Green 110 Saracinesca 110 Martin Doyle 108 Red River 10S Chapultepec 105 Oxford 105 Welbourne 105 Don Enrique 105 Spooner 103 Berkeley 100 Magazine 100 Kestlgouche 9C The AVrestler 90 and Blue Heron 92 can all make the wind fairly whistle past their jockeys ears by the rapidity of their running It is quite probable these horses will furnish the field and It Is more probable that Chapultepec will be the favorite
