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CHARLESTON MEETING IS EXTENDED. Charleston. S. C, February IS. Advices wcre received tonight from the Jockey Club at New York announcing that an extension of twenty-four days to its meeting asked for by the Charleston Fair anil Racing Association bad been granted. This will bring the closing date here on March 2S. Originally it had been intended to close Februarys. Ihe additional racing time came as a result of the earnest plea of the horsemen here wou would have been idle pending the opening of racing at Norfolk and In Kentucky. The horsemen are naturally jubilant over the granting of the extension.
