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PLANNING FOR THE FALL RACING. New York, July 5 Just how fully the dates allotted Saturday by the stewards of the Jockey Club for fall racing on the New York tracks will be utilized lias not ibeen definitely determined. The Jocke3- Club stewards made no suggestions. Tlie duration of the meetings will be determined by the executive committees of the several tracks. But it is pretty generally understood that nil the tracks will follow the example of the Empire City and Saratoga associations, which liaye announced six days a week for their summer meetings, and thereby use all their dates. Tlie fact that the Queens County and Metropolitan jockey chilis applied for fall dates indicates that racing under the conditions precipitated by tlie repeal of the Percy-Gray law is prospering. At the beginning of the season the horizon looked so squally the managers of the Jamaica and Aqueduct tracks did not care to take any chances. They were content to let the big associations1 go ahead and find out how things were going to be. Already the secretaries of the tracks, big and little, are at work on their programs. Among the famous fixtures to be renewed in tlie fall are the Futurity, Century, Annual Champion. Twin City. Flat bush and Great Eastern, at Sheepshead Bay: tlie Junior Champion, Occidental. Oriental. First Special. Hindoo. Holly and Marlliorough, at Graves-end, and the Matron. Nursery, Champagne, Municipal. Jerome, Harbor Hill. Champion and Belmont Park Autumn Weight-for-Age Hace, at Belmont Park. The Futurity. Annual Champion. Matron and Nur-serj- Stakes will be run at undiminished values, because they are contracts lietween the Coney Island Jockey Club and the Westchester Association and the horsemen of the country, made before the passage of the Jlart-Agnew law. Tho other tracks, which will have no such tremendous obligations to meet, will be able to distribute such money as they may elect to give to horsemen in a fairer way tluin they could at tin; earlier meetings. The Brooklyn Jockey Club and Empire City Association have no undecided produce stakes or futurities of any other kind to run off.
