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MR. DWYER PROCEEDING CAUTIOUSLY. Awaits Developments of Today and Thursday Before Deciding on Extra Days Racing. New York. June 7. — Things look promising for four days raring each week in future. When spoken to on the subject today. Mr. Dwyer said that he had i* t vet decided what would lie done by the Brooklyn Jockey Club in that respect, as he wants to first si-e what the attendance will amount to tomorrow and Thursday. There is little doubt that an extra days racing each week will be profitable. Ail the associations want, is a prospect of sufficient receipts to cover the exiiense of an extra day to offer the necessary inducements to keep horsemen here. Three days racing a week is regarded rather a slim proposition for owners with large stables of horses, but four days would fill the hill and everybody would he satisfied. Fverv race for tomorow filled well, with the ex caption of the Broadway Stakes. What the field in this old fixture lacks numerically is amplv atoned for In quality. While Fitz Herbert is the dominant factor in Hie aate-pest lietting. it is thought that the Hildreth crack will have stiff work cut out to beat Fashion Plate and Harrigan. hath vastly improved Ih roe-yea r-olds. Turncoat is such an ordinary looking colt that ihspite his one sensational per formanee In the Metropolitan, he Is not regarded as a dangerous contender.
