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RENO TRACK CROWDED WITH HORSES Celesta in Training Again and Working Fast Meeting to Open Today. Reno, New, September 11. Reno is bustling with activity. With the races which open on Friday for twenty-five days only a few hours away, sportsmen and turf followers are flocking in from every corner. Business men are rejoicing over the interest taken in the Sagebrush meeting and before the racing conies to an end, the greatest sport ever witnessed in this state is expected. Few tracks of this size in America have been confronted with an over-abundance of racing material. Manager Jack Atkin lias had to turn down two hundred horses. As it is. He will care for three hundred and fifty horses, which is more than enough for a meeting of such short duration. The horses which have been here -for a spell are showing some great form. It is doubtful if there is a spot iu America which is so beneficial to the horse. They thrive on the climate and they fatten on Nevadas rich fe,ed. Hordes of the calibre of Col. Matt, Poppee and Curlicue, which have been raced almost to death, as the expression runs, have filled out and gotten back the silken coats which spoke for their fitness. A special of twenty-orie cars has arrived here from Cheyenne. Four express cars of horses are due here from the Maxwelton track in St. Louis, while excursions made up of San Franciscos foremost clubmen and sportsmen are expected here for the opening. The mare Celesta, for some years George W. Wingfields best, is training again and startling dockers with her speed. She has only been in training for a short spell, but yesterday she was sent a mile in l:425f., and the track is far from being called fast. It is possible that she will start in the opening handicap. Celesta will take considerable beating around these parts. Any mare that can do a mile in the morning as she did, can account for the newcomer. Horses, cannot come to Reno and compete with those that have been acclimated, even though they may be of higher standing. Gertrude B. is another mare which is working fast.
