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AQUEDUCT MEETING TO OPEN TODAY. New York, I m 22. This was aa . T day fot i •• mg hereabouts, the Belmont Park meeting hav-in- dosed Saturday ami the opening of the Queens itv Jockey clubs meeting at Aqnedncl bebag eheduhd for tomorrow. Tie Brooklyn Handicap, for vears the feature of the Brooklyn Jockey Clubs prim; meeting at tie Graveaead track, will be run tomorrow ovet the Aqueduct course at its old dla- taoce Of one mile and a nuarter. and a field of surpassing quality will contest it. The Aqueduct meeting will occupy every day up to and Including July 9. Owners of steeplechasers are disappointed Inn aaac lumping races are banished from the programme at Aqueduct. The Queens County Jockey Club man-agemenl came to the conclusion that the expense ol puttuig the fences in order for steeplechasing would Ix1 hardly * rth while and the .junipers will have to bide 1 licit- time until the opening of tie Sara tog* Associations meetiag in hagaat. I., i great extent the owners ol the timber-toppers have them neive to blame. They have not taken advantage as ;i should have don., ol the lamping race* offered on the programme of the Westchester Ra lug As- * iaiioii. Had there n more entries for these - ! lie Queens County Jockey Club would, in all likelihood, have sjoae to the expeaae "t preparing the steeplechase eoarae al Aaaedwet. Bat ti fflcials decline to enthuse with the lieldb bo suiull as they I I have been of late. t I
