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LAUREL PARK RACING BEGINS TUESDAY TUESDAYOne One of the Greatest Meetings Ever Held in Maryland Predicted for Track Near Baltimore Laurel Md September 28 The stage is set the orchestra is ready to sound the rand glad nmrcii and the actors are properly decked and garbed at Laurel Park for the raising of the curtain Tuesday on what promises to be the best racing show ever offered in the neighborhood of Baltimore Washing ¬ ton and Philadelphia The stage is as picturesque a track as may be found in the length and breadth of the land The actors that will perform on this stage are the most brilliant thoroughbreds of the strongest and most representative racing estab ¬ lishments of Uie United States They will play their several parts after a season of rehearsals at Aqueduct Belmont Park Saratoga Yonkers Jamaica and Havre de Grace Letter perfect these gallant actors are going to rioe at Laurel to the highest levels of their careers careersThe The Maryland State Fair Corporation which al ¬ ways races through the month of October at Uinrel Park will furnish proper inspiration in the form of about as liberal a racing program as was ever offered bv any racing association at any time in the United States Two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars and more will be distributed among horsemen in the course of the twentyseven days of racing that will l egin on Tuesday Of tills sum 44000 will be contributed to the twentytwo fix ¬ tures which closed in August and attracted upwards of 1000 nominations Above 190000 will be added in some 1C 7 overnight races not one of which will have a smaller value in added money than 1000 and some forty or fifty of which will pay 1200 and more The remainder will be made up by subscriptions and forfeits of the nominators in both stakes and overnight races racesThe The Laurel Park October program will bring the best thoroughbreds of the several classes together in a series of contests that will test their mettle and win the attention of the sport loving fraternity of the entire east The l est threeyearolds and older horses such horses as Sunny Slope Johren War Cloud War Machine Motor Cop Flags Eyelid Lucullite Exterminator The Porter Leochares Westy Hogan Omar Khayyam Cudgel Hand Gren ¬ ade Roamer Borrow Stannaster Crimper Midway Boniface Priscilla Mullens Hauberk etc will meet in the good long distance specials for three yearolds and over the National Baltimore Wash ¬ ington and Dixie Handicaps HandicapsThe The juvenile stars will come together in such races as the Maryland and Potomac Handicaps and the Chevy Chase and Royal Blue Steeplechases sup ¬ plemented by an admirable overnight program for leppers will bring the best jumpers to the post Laurel Park will feature steeplechasing a form of racing that has always been popular with racing folk In these parts as never before Already there are upward of 500 thoroughbreds quartered at the track and more are arriving every day
