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EXPECT BANNER MEETING AT JAMESTOWN Improvements in Progress t Track Where Racing Will Follow latoni and Pimlico Meetings Xorfolk Va Octobc Jamestown Jockey vas entirely too small for the crowds This Im fault to be found 1rovement will leave no room for in this respect by the crowds that will be here this fall fallThe The stabling capacity has been increased by the building of 150 new stalls which are nowJust about completed These stalls will be first class having a tenfoot roof extension on the sides and ends with lofts for sleeping quarters ets and will be used after the fall meeting here by horsemen who expect to winter at the Jamestown track A number of horsemen have already declared an intention of win ¬ tering here Those who have raced here have always contended that with the proper kind of stables like the new ones the association is building that this will be one of the best places in the country to winter winterThe The association has announced the following stakes to be run during the meeting entries to which will close Saturday October 20 20Mouticello Mouticello Hotel Handicap all ages 1500 one mile mileExchange Exchange Handicap all aces 1000 one mile and a sixteenth sixteenthThanksgiving Thanksgiving Selling Stakes threeyearolds and upward eighthLynnhaven 1000 one mile and an eighth Lynnhaven Selling Stakes all ages 1000 one mile mileFairfax Fairfax Hotel Handicap twoyearolds 800 six furlongs v V Merchants Selling Stakes aliases 800 sir fur longs longsThe The meeting will be jrlven under the sanction of ofthe the atPimlico Jockey Club and will follow the meet ings at Pimlico and Latouia The ofiicials will include Joseph A Murphy and Frank J Bryan stewards A B Dade starter Ed Cole placing judge Fred W Gerhardy associate placing judge Joseph Mc Lonnan racing secretary Herman P Conkllng clerk of the scales Harry White paddock and patrol judge and Mortimer M Mahoncy advance informa ¬ tion director
