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VICTORIAS SUMMER MEETING. All in Readiness for the Opening at British Columbia Track Next Saturday. Victoria. B. C. June 3. — The sixty-day summer meeting, which opens here June 5. under the auspices of the Victoria Country Club, with Judge Robert F. Leighton as manager, gives every indication of a great success. It would be very doubtful if a city of Victorias size could support a meeting of sixty days duration, if it did not have the patronage of several large contiguous cities to draw from. Victoria is but seventy miles from Seattle, and but sixty from Vancouver, B. C. a city of over 100,000 Maple and one of the best sporting communities on the coast. The Victoria meeting has these two cities to draw from in addition to numerous adjacent towns. Fast steamers ply between Victoria. Vancouver aud Seattle and this city is the objective point for coast tourists in the summer. Arrangements have been made with the different steamship companies operating steamers on Puget Sound ami the Straits of Georgia to inaugurate a service that will bring visitors here in ample time for the races and return in the evening. This service from both Seattle and Vancouver will go into effect the opening day of the meeting. It is expected that of the crowds that flock to the Seattle exposition, a large number will be attracted to this ciy. Everything is ready for opening day. The track has been practically made over and is now one of the fastest and safest half-mile tracks in the country. A new judges stand has been built, private boxes and a new betting ring constructed and numerous other improvements made that give the enclosure the appearance of a new track. Over 330 horses are on the grounds, with aboutprty more to arrive. Two hundred new stalls haveMeen built and these have been found insufficient to accommodate the large number of horsemen who want to come here. Manager Leighton has been refusing applications from late applicants for two weeks past. Irving H. Wheaterolt. the British Columbia millionaire, is here and will remain for the meeting. He has a useful stable here iu charge of J. A. Head-ley. Barney Schreibers local string has arrived from Woodland. Cal.. in charge of T. E. Crist. Eddie Grauey and Sainotta are probably the best of the juveniles in the Schreiber barn. All of the officials who will serve at the meeting are on the ground. The stable of J. M. Shilling is hero from San Antonio. Tex. Jockey Shilling came in with the horses of his father, but whether the boy will ride here is a matter of conjecture. The meeting has aroused no local opposition. The Country Club is composed of leaders in the business and social circles of the community aud all have tin confidence of the public. So far as the betting is eoiieerued, I here is no objection whatever from local parlies. One hears nothing but good words and well wishes for the Victoria Country Club in its effort to give this city a meeting that will be high-class aud a model for the future.
