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I . 1 j 1 , j , 1 , 1 : j , FALL AND WINTER RACING PROSPECTS. Horsemen to Have Continuous Opportunities for Activity Except During Part of November. Scrutiny of the racing schedules arranged for this fall and winter discloses a condition of affairs that will provide abundant opportunity for votaries of the sport to indulge in their favorite pastime during the ensuing half year, with the exception of an interregnum of a week or two following the close of the metropolitan racing on the eastern tracks and the opening of the winter meetings in the south. The schedule of dates under which the tracks in the vicinity of New York are operating provides for continuous racing successively at Cravesend. Belmont Park, Jamaica, Aqueduct and Empire City up to November 15, the date which marks the legal closing of racing in the state of New York. Pim-lico. the Maryland Jockey Clubs track at Baltimore, will be the scene of racing for fourteen days in October and November, but this meeting will ciose a week before the New York season comes to an end. Following the close of the Toronto meeting tomorrow, there will be racing on the Canadian circuit at Hamilton and Windsor until October 23. when the Canadian season will end. The schedule for fall racing in Kentucky provides for thirteen days at Churchill Downs, Louisville, beginning tomorrow and continuing until October !. ami twenty-four days at Latouia from October 11 to November 0. If this arrangement should be followed out. the western season will end before the sport ceases in the cast and .western horsemen will remain in enforced idleness for several weeks until the opening ot the winter tracks. The track at Jacksonville. Fla.. is scheduled to open on Thanksgiving Day, which comes this year on November 25, and the Tampa and Juarez meetings will begin about a week later, on December 1. In previous seasons, it has been customary for the New California Jockey Club to usher in winter racing at Oakland early in November, but on account of the passage ot anti-racing legislation in California last winter, no authoritative announcement has as yet been made concerning winter racing on the coast and there is considerable uncertainty as to what may be forthcoming in that far western section. Should Thomas II. Williams decide it to be advisable, racing may begin in California at the accustomed time and this would bridge the gap in dates at present existing. The minor meetings now-going on at Salt Lake City. Vancouver and Montreal will have come to a close long before the ending of the season of 1900 on eastern tracks.
