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NEW YORK RACING TAKING SHAPE. Belmont Park Program Announced Providing for the Sport Every Other Day. New York. April 14 —The Westchester Racing Association announces that its spring meeting of Mi will begin at Belmont Park Thursday. May 13. Saturday. May 13. will lie the next racing day. in each of the two succeeding weeks there will be three days of racing and two in the next and concluding week. This moderate program is to feel the public pulse and test the legal status of racing, or. rather, of Ixlting on racing. If the people turn out in profit bringing numbers and the sport is not subjected to Ihe official harassment that proved so disastrous last year it is more than probable that some of the days left blank in the program announced will lie filled with such a provision of overnight purses as to assure good racing. But this all depends ou contingencies yet to be fully developed. Important stakes already closed — the Wither.-. Belmont. Indies and National Stallion Race — will bo run at the full values announced when they were offered for entries. In addition a number of minor stakes will be announced for entries shortly. In al! il is intended to maintain the racing at Belmont Parks best standard, while lessening the number of days devoted to the sport. For iravesend tthe features and races of the Brooklyn Jockey Club will not be decided upon finally until the return of Philip J. Dwyer. who is visiting at French Lick Springs. Secretary Roii-berger has liecn working on the program and wiil have it ready to submit to Mr. Dwyer on his return. Shecpshead Bay is far enough away on the date schedule to afford Secretary Thomas Smith ample time, and tlie program for Yonkers will follow in good season.
