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ACTIVITIES OF THE UNITED HUNTS. Program of Sport for This Season Likely to Attract Many of the Regular Racegoers. Nrw York. February 19. — This years program Cat the l " ni t •«! limits meet is saw that is likely to attract many regular racegoers, as it includes the new sited Hunts double event steeplechase, which is • ire to obtain the entries of the best cross-country performers. So much money is spent on these hunt ni-cts at the present day to insure high-class sport that they desire the patronage of the public, -which they would not obtain if held on the same day as a meeting at Jamaica. One thing is certain, and that la if the regular season opens on or before May 10 it will open at .lam aha and net at liolmont Park, Which has been talked of with the idea of giving the season a first-class send-off. The Inited Hunts meet will be held at Belmont Park Terminal and it would be unlik ly to run meetings within a stones throw of each other on the same day. Though only three clubs are giving amateur meets in th« metropolitan district this spring, there will be plenty of sport of this kind, as each club will have racing on two days. The Itockaway Hunting Club, a pioneer in the sport, will open the season on April 28 and the Piping ltock Pacing Association, one of the latest recruits to the ranks of amateur racing associations, will close the hunt season on June 2. wli-n the regular season will be in full swing. As the first day of the Piping Rock meet will he on Decoration Day. the conflict in dates is not likely to do much harm. Piping Pock eaten to a high-class crowd and charges nearly double the admission fee that is required at Pelmont Park. With a holiday crowd in full swing at Pelmont. it is reasonable to suppose that the exclusive sporting set that niiiil" Piping Pock possible will prefer the seclusion of the picturos.|iie Locust Valley course. The activities of the hunts committee of the National Steeplechase ami Hunt Association have increased considerably in the past few years, and it now controls hunting and amateur racing in nearly every part of the country. All the men on the committee are sportsmen who ride their own horses, both in the hunting field and at amateur meets and are in the sport lor sports sake. A proposition is under way to farther cement the control of different hunts by having each hunt register its territory. A committee now has this matter in charge.
