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QUITE CHEERFUL PROSPECT AT HAMILTON. Meeting Opens Today with No Essential to a Successful Racinij Reunion Lacking. Hamilton, tint.. June 23. The Hamilton Jockey Clubs first meeting for the season of Itlli; will iM-gin tomorrow. Hamilton racegoers will be introduced to an innovation in the way of B Ml ■filial of speculation. The mutuols will lie substituted for the bookmakers and, taking the wonderful success of the iron men at Ottawa as a guide, it is no idle prediction to make, that they will lie a great success here. The meeting promises to open under favorable conditions, the weather forts eat l«-ing for bright skies, while the track, iu spite- of the drenching of the past weak, is in good condition and promises to be fast tomorrow. Secretary Loudon has provided patrons of the club with* B high-class program. The fields in a majority of eases are good and the card is one of tin- beat of the Benson in Canada. Large fields are named for the first and the last two races. These- three an- selling affairs and two of them are at sprinting distances. The feature race is the Dominion Plate Handicap, with ,500 added. It is a dash of one mile and an eighth. Then- an- two other handicaps on the program, one at three-quarters and another at a mile and a sixteenth. A steeplechase, which, however, will be run on the flat, completes the card. Owing to the field being in none too good condition, it was decided to run the jumping race on the flat. Bad the horses Ih-cii permitted to race through the field tomorrow, it would have ruined the course for the remainder of the meeting. By Monday ihe looting should be good and hard and during the remaining days of the meeting, provided, of course, renditions warrant it, the steeplechases will Ik- run through tin- field. All of the horsemen have agreed to donate 0. each as a contribution to the Reil Cross fund as their share of the purses duriug the two meetings here. Among the stables here from Kentucky to par ticipate in the meeting are those of P. M. Civill, George II. Kaone, Lew Marion and Roddy P. Marshall. The hitters horses race under the nom dC course of the Keystone Stable. Mrs. L. A. Livingstons horses are also here in ehatgn of Matt Feaki-s. They came here direct from the Baneeeas Farm of their owner in New Jersey and there are sixteen iu the string, including three Derby eligihles. The Derby this year seonjs like an open affair and it is likely that some of the New York owners, who have eligihles in the race, will take a chance and send something up here to start. James Butlers Spur. K. J. Mackenzies Faux-Col and W. Yarns Achievemeit and Skeer Face are among the eligihles. There are a great number of jumpers here and the steeplechases promise to be one of the strong attractions of the meeting. J. A. Sykes. who raced the jumper Top Gallant some few years back, is here with a couple of two-year-olds. He has been out of racing for several years. J. H. Karr. M. Kelly and Harry Rites are among the horsemen who shipped from Baltimore to Hamilton. Albert Simons has arrived from Louisville with the western division of the Harry Payne Whitney string. Hi- has ten iu his stable and exnaeta James Rowe to ship several fresh oues from New York to hiiu iu afewdays.
