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OFFICIAL PROGRAM FOR SHEEPSHEAD BAY. Racing and Stake Dates Announced — Schedules for Fall Meetings on the Eastern Tracks, New York. June 14. — The official program of the Conev Island Jockey Club provides for eleven days of racln- during the summer meeting at Sheepshead Bay. as follows: Thursday. June 24: Saturday. June 20; Tuesday. June 2t: Wednesday. June .10: Thursday. July 1: Saturday. July .!: Monday. July 5; Wednesday. July 7: Thursday. July ft: Saturday. July 10: Tuesday. July 13. It Is said that one or two extra days racing may lie provided in addition: I The dates decided irpou for decision of the stakes are as follows: Thursday. June 24 — Double Event first half I and Suburban Handicap. Saturday. June 20 — Beacon Steeplechase and Tid.il Stakes. Tuesday. June 20 — Sheepshead Bay Stakes. Wednesday. June : — Bav Ridge Handicap. Thursday. July 1— Swift Stakes. Saturday. Jnlv ■".. — Oreat Trial Stakes. Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes. Monday. July 5 — Independence Steeplechase and Commonwealth Handicap. Wednesday. July 7 — Mermaid Stakes. Thursday. July s — Advance Stakes. Saturday. July 10 — Vernal Stakes and Long Island Handicap. Tuesday. July 13 — Double Brent second naif and Lawrence Realization Stakes. , Altogether horsemen will have a chance to compete star a total of 0,000 in guaranteed and added money stakes and overnight events, including steeplechases. Kvery overnight race run at the Bay will have a name, as follows: Hillside. Preceptor. Berkeley. Thistle. Stamina. St. Kevin. Beacon Light. Edward. Klkwood. Colin. Nasturtium. Bay Ridge. Tammany. Tradition. Mellaande, Burgomaster. Priseillian. Mon-fort. Jubilee. Porion. Gioriner, Elherial. Zephyr. Equity. Tourenne. Saranac. Security. Inflexible. Highlander. Astarita. Philander. Ballot, Hylas. Or-liiondale. Perseus, Thistledale. Bedouin and Tokalon. which recall many famous race horses. August Belmont, chairnvin of the Jockey Club. says that the proposed fall meetings at the various New York tracks will occur in their accustomed order. Mr. Belmont has in his position as president of the Westchester Association already approved the program for Belmont Dark. Thomas Smith and Fred Rehlierger are at work on the fall hooks for Sheepshead Bay and iravesend. When the horses tome back from Saratoga they will go to Sheepshead Bay. and after the Coney Island Jockey Clubs fortnights.*! season they will transfer to Oravesend. Aqueduct will follow Oravesend with four or fire dais lacing. Belnioiit Park will follow Aqueduct. Kmpire City will trail Belmont Park and .luniaica will wind up tlie metropolitan season. Some of the old-time Westchester speciahl thai will bo renewed at Belmont Park in the fall arc be Jerome Handicap, for throo-year-ohls. the Matron. CrfampaWie and Nnrsei.v. for two-year olds, the Belmont Park Autumn Weight-for-Age Race, the New Koohelle Handicap and the Municipal Handicap, for three-year-olds and over. The Futurity will, of course, tie renewed at Slieepshead Bay. The Futurity of ifSW closed long ago. and it will be run on the opening day of the meeting at the Bay witll the Kail Handicap. Ami after the Futurity will come the Cenlury. one mib-and a half: the Annual Champion, two miles and a quarter; the September, one mile and live sixteenths: the Russet, one mile and a half: the Oreat F.astorn. six furlongs, and tlie Flatbush. seven furlongs. The Century and the Annual Champion, which arc races for three-year-olds and over, like the Futurity, are closed already. The others are open, but they will lie specials of anbalaallsl value. The Oravesend fall specials to tie renewed include the Holly and Prospect Handicaps, for two-year olds, the Hindoo, for three -year-olds, and the Occidental. Oriental. Marlborough and Oocanvicw Hainli caps and the First Special, for three-year-olils and over. .Matt J. Winn, who arrived recently from Juarez. Mexico, to remain until after the close of the Empire City meeting, which he will manage, exprcs-ed astonishment at the large and high-class attendance at Oravesend Saturday. sneaking of the Juarez project he said the pi-ant will he completed is No-vcmlier and a meeting will begin December 1. There will be a circular course of a mile and an eighth and two chutes, one of seven furlongs ami another of a mile. Mr. Winn anuouneed that many good jockeys, including V. Powers. Tapliu. McOec. Shilling and others, have been engaged to ride at Yon ken and that the stakes have attracted some of the Iwst horses in the west, as well as those In the east. The Pinkerlons ejected Sig Levy from the Oravesend track Saturday for "overstepping the mark.
