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l ■ i i ! , i i i , , , JAMAICAS FINE RACING PROGRAM Eight Stake Features Provided for First Metropolis . tan Meeting of Year — Eligibles to Faumonok. Now York. May 1.— W. C. Edwards, racing secretary of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, has distributed the urogram books for the spring meeting at Jamaica, where the metropolitan season of racing begins on May Its. Eight stake races are provided for the nine days of racing, with the Paumonok Handicap, of the guaranteed value of $."i. IOO. as the opening day attraction. The Paumonok is for three-year-olds and over, and it closed with sixty-two nominations. While Omar Khayyam and Hourless are not included among the entries, nearly all the other high-class haudican horses of the older division have lieeu named. " Those eligible to start include the following: Arrah Co On High Cost Bosie OOrady Bonnie Dance Hank ODay Boyal Ensign Bully Boy High Noon Spark Bellringer Ima Frank Stromboli Columbine Jack Hare Jr. Shauballymorc Campfire Kathleen Sunflash II. Common Law Kalitan Salvestra Corn Tassel Leochares Star Master taddie lan-ulliie Snapdragon II. Uacdalus Malvolio Tumbler Diamond Bock Manistcr Toi Trophy Enfilade Mr. Ned Tom McTaggart Etruscan Milkman Tea Caddy Ed Cudiuec Naturalist Ten Point Empress Old Maid Turf Flags Old Kocuig Top Coat Colden King Iapp Westy llogan Crccn tiold Panainan Wigstone Creek Legend Pickwick Yankee Witch He Will Philippic Hullontrope Boamer Then- will Ik- but six BMM daily and no purse will be less than $ S00. The Jamaica track is noted as the fastest course on th" New York circuit and, with the fast band of horses that will take part in the coming meeting, the prosjK-cts are that some wonderful racing is in store for the patrons of the MetroiKilitan Jockey Club. juite a few horses are being prepared for this years racing at Jamaica, the most prominent of the stables located there being the big and imposing string of John Sanford. which wintered at Charleston. S. .. and came north in iuit«» an advanced i-ondltion of training. Mr. Sanford. from all accounts. «ill not start any of his horses before the Jamaica meeting, but they will be fit and ready when the New York season begins. The order of the running of the stake features is as follows : Thursday. May 16 — Paumonok Handicap for three-year-olds and over. Cuaranteed value .00O. Three-quarters of a mile. Saturday. May IS — Kings County Handicap for three-year-olds and over. Cuarnuteed value ,0U0. One and one-sixteenth miles. Monday. May Lb — Suffolk Stakes for three-year-olds. Cuaranteed value ,000. Five-eighths of a mile. Tuesday, May -1 — Stuyvesant Handicap for three-year-olds. Cuaranteed value .." 00. Three-quarters of a mile. Wednesday. May 1!-. — Newtown Stakes for three-year-olds aiid over. Cuarautood value ,000. Three-luartTs of a mile. Thursday. May 23 — Colorado Stakes for two-year-olds. Cuaranteed value ,000. Five and a half furlongs. Friday. May 24- Highland Stakes for three year olds. Cuaranteed value ,000. Three-quarters of a mile. Saturday. May 2-"i I/mg Beach Handicap for three-year obis and over. Cuaranteed value ,000. One and one-eighth miles. . A
