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JAMAICANS EAGER FOR AMERICAN RACING New York September 5 M de Cordova editor of the Kingston Jamaica Gleaner was a passenger on the Royal Mail liner Magdalena whiclr arrived here yesterday lie said that the proposed plan to make Jamaica a center for racing of American horses this winter as a result of the antibetting legisla ¬ tion here is an all absorbing topic In Jamaica Ho denied the statements that there Is any strong op liosition on the island to the carrying out of the plan but that on the contrary Jamaicans are work ¬ ing rapidly for It He said that Little an American horse which has created a sensation there by suc ¬ cessful victories over English horses has been pur chased by a syndicate for many times what was paid for him in America AmericaW W T Rich a Brooklyn man who was a pas ¬ senger said that he had met several Jamaica rac ¬ ing men during a stay oii the island and that they are doing everything possible to promote the racing plan Americans are well liked on the island he said and the work of the American horses which haye been taken down to the island recently by H E Harris and others has done much to create a feeling In favor of the Americanizing of the track at Knntsford Park near Jamaica Several enlarge iiicnts to grandstands and paddocks will of course have to be made
