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SHORT CARD FOR EMPIRE CITYS LAST DAY. One Race Fails to Fill, but Crack Racers Are in the Other Five. New York. October 23. The best racing card of the Empire City clubs short October meeting will lie run off on its closing day. Only five races have been programmed for tomorrow on account of a failure to till the third race, a condition dash for two-year-olds, which enforced its being declared off. The usual procedure in cifses of this kind of substituting another race in place of it was dispensed witli. The principal feature, the Arrow Stakes, while promising a eood race, is inferior as a racing at-, traction to the 400 handicap at one mile and seventy yards which follows it. Fifteen superior-class horses have been named overnight to start in this race. Including such cracks as Frank Gill, Gowan. Gretna Green. Arondack. Wise Mason and others. Possibly never before in the history of the American turf has such a splendid aggregation of thoroughbreds contested for so small a purse. The exodus of race-goers for Baltimore commenced yesterday -and. judging by the crowds that left today. New York will be so denuded of its race track regulars that the Yonkers course will not have enough devotees of the snort present to till a returning trolley car comfortably. James Villeplgue. the well-known caterer, and Charles Smith, of the horse show, will depart for California after the last named exhibition is over. They will spend two months there, dividing their time between Oakland and Arcadia.
