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BELMONT PARK RACING BEGINS TODAY. Fine Attendance Expected — Starters. Jockeys and Odds in the Metropolitan Handicap. Now York. Mav 11!.— Tlie Metropolitan season of racing for ISM begins at the great Belmont Park course tomorrow under encouraging auspices. It is generally believed that, fortified with tlie liberal local court decisions recently rendered regarding het-thu under the Hart-Agnew law. tlie public will turn out in great numbers to witness tlie favorite sport. Race-goers mav lav all the wagers tiny wish during th- afternoon without fear of arrest or molestation. So railed bookmakers only will be subjected to whatever espionage or regulation may be adopted by the authorities However, no one apprehends the slight est interference with in angle of the siiort and therefore many of the old-time devotees of racing will be present to lend eclat to the occasion. The card for turf hoadciuartors inaugural day is :,r»t class, the Metropolitan Handicap, at one mile, being ils principal attraction. Of the bakers dozen of starters. S. C. Hildrelhs pair. King James anil Itostigouehe. are dominant factors in the market at S to •".. Maddens famous two-year old of last season. Fayette, and James R. Keenes Turncoat air next fancied at 4 and i to 1 respectively. Probable. Metropolitan starters, jockeys aud odds: King James and Restigouche. coupled as the Hi! dretli entrv O. Burns and W. Miller. 8 to 5. Juggler McDauiel. 20 to 1. Half Sovereign IE. DugaiO. 10 to 1. layette IMcIatyre. 4 to l. Arasee. doubtful Cl.issl and Mary Davis WRSOU. as the Emerv fj Davis entry. 12 to 1. Cowan Grand. 12 to 1. Don Creole Scoville. 12 to 1. Turncoat Butwein. 6 to 1. Wine Mason Ipton and Glucose Deverichl. Newcastle Stable. 15 to 1. Footpad Bergeni. 40 to 1. The trials of these horses in preparation were: King James— Mile at Kheepshead Bay in 1:4.!. Restigouchi — Mile at Sheepshead Bay in 1:44. Half Sovereign -Mile at Pimlico in 1:41. Juggler— in.! oneeighlii miles at Pimlico in 1 :.ls. Favette — Mile at Belmont Park in 1:4..?. Arasee -Mile at Sheepshead Bay in 1:44. Marv Davis— Mile at Sheepshead Bay iu 1:44. Cowan — Mile at Pimlico In 1:41. Don Creole — Mile at Gravescud in 1:411. Turn, -oat— Mile at Sheepshead Bay in 1:43. Wise Mason -Mile at Graveseml ill 1:42. Glucose- Mile at Craveseiul in 1:42".. Footpad --Seven eighths at Sheephead Bay iu 1:33.
