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OPENING DAY AT AQUEDUCT Prospects Excellent for Some Great Racing at Popular Course of Queens County Jockey Club. NEW YORK, N. Y., September 15. The autumn meeting of the Queens County Jockey Club will be inaugurated at Aqueduct tomorrow. There has been a most liberal increase in the added money in all of the stakes, a total of 5,000, or an average of ,000 for each event, to be exact. In addition to this there is no purse less than ,000, and many of them have ,200 added, so that there will be every incentive for horsemen to patronize the meeting most liberally. Tlie chief event of tlie meeting will be the Aqueduct Handicap, witu ,000 added, .which will be run on Saturday, September 25. It is at one mile and five-sixteenths, and is the longest distance race - on tlie program. It has Exterminator, Mad Hatter, Cleopatra, Wildair, Audacious, John P. Grier, On Watch and other good ones among the nominations. For the opening day program the Arverne Handicap of ,000 added and the Bellerose Stakes are provided as features. The Arverne Handicap s for three-year-olds and over at three-quarters of a mile and has attracted a field of eight, witli plenty of speed represented. With Naturalist, Lord Brighton, On Watch, Dr. Clark, Krewer, Audacious, Panoply and AVedding Cake the named overnight acceptances, the spectators are assured of a contest well worth seeing. The Bellerose Stakes, for two-year-olds, has none of the star juveniles among its probable starters owing to the selling conditions of the race, but those named to meet are well matched and a spirited contest should result. Saturday, September 18, the Brunswick Steeplechase Handicap, ,500 added, over a two-mile course, has twenty-night nominations, including Square Dealer, Syosset and Wisest Fool. The Edge-mere Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, at one mile and an eighth, lias ,500 added, and closed with twenty-nine nominations. It will also be run Saturday, September 18. Fair Gain, John P. Grier, Dr. Clark, Naturalist, Audacious, Exterminator aiid On Watch are some of hc eligible. . Monday, September 20, the tfakdale Handicap, ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile, has sixty-four- nominations, including every good two-year-old in training with the exception of Leonardo II. Tuesday the Woodmere Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and over, at three-quarters, with ,000 added, has twenty-five nominations, among thein such clever platers as Yellow Hand, Nightstick, Jadda, Tippity Witchet and Arnold. The Bayview Handicap, ,000 added, a mile and a sixteenth, and having thirty-two nominations, is the feature Tor Wednesday, September 22. Among the nominations are Exterminator, Audacious, Upset, Naturalist and Fair Gain. All the crack fillies will meet in the Beldame Handicap at five-eighths of a mile, ,000 added, on Thursday, September 23. The public will get a line on Mr. Vosburghs estimate of the filly form of the year in this race. On tlie following Monday the Glen Cove Selling Stakes, ,000 added, at seven-eighths of a mile, will be decided. There are seventeen high-class nominations. On the following day the Babylon Handicap for, two-year-olds, ,500 added, at thrcy-quarters of a mile, and having fifty-nine nominations, is down for decision. The feature for Wednesday. September 29, will be the Koslyn Handicap, 500 added, for three-year-olds, at one mil and a sixteenth. It lias thirty high-class entries, and a splendid race must result from its running. The meeting will come to a close on Thursday, September 30, with the Stonybrook Selling Stakes, ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over, at one mile. The track is in perfect condition, ami there ire now several hundred horses quartered there.
