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ALL IS READY AT PIMLICO Course and Track in Fine Condition for Opening on Tuesday. BALTIMORE, Md., October 29. Racing secretary Frank J. Bryan of the Maryland Jockey Club has arranged an attractive program for the opening day of the fall season of racing at the historical Pimlico track, which is scheduled to begin Tuesday, November 1. The Pimlico Serial Weight-for-Age Race No. 1, for all ages, at three-quarters of a mile, is the stake feature. This race has ,000 added and will undoubtedly bring together a large and representative field of our best horses. Racing through the field has always been popular at Pimlico and devotees of that branch of the sport should find a contest well worth seeing in the Inaugural Steeplechase, at two miles, in which some of the best timber toppers of the year will be seen in action. The other races for opening day include a "dash of three-quarters, for maiden two-year-olds; the Sudbrook Park Purse, at three-quarters, for three-year-olds and over, under selling conditions; the Pikesville Purse, at three-quarters mile, for two-year-olds; the Belvidcrc Purse, at one and one-eighth miles, for three-year-olds, and the Arlington Handicap, at one mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds and over. It is a program that promises much and a great crowd will be present to witness it. The Pimlico course is in thorough readiness for the approaching meeting and never looked more beautiful than at present. The track itself is in fine condition and fast time should mark the racing with so many speedy horses taking part. Word was received today that a large number of stables which have been campaigning on New York tracks will leave for Maryland today. Among those which will campaign at Pimlico are: Ranco-cas Stable, C. A. Stoneham, a division of the Lexington and Nalapa Farm stables; T. J. Healey, with R. T. Wilsons and J. Butlers horses; J. E. Widener, M. J. Murphy, Foreign Stable, J. Byer, N. L. Byer, J. E. Madden, P. S. P. Randolph, L. Waterbury and M. L. Schwartz. Several innovations are to be tried out during the coining meeting. One is- the changing of the starting post in sevpral of the stake races. The starts in both the Walden Stakes and the Futurity will be at the sixteenth post. The distance of both races is one mile and this will in a way prevent any crowding that might occur going the first turn. The extra sixteenth will enable the field to spread out a bit and will have a tendency to reduce crowding. A temporary judge stand will be constructed at the sixteenth post and if this change in the starting post proves a good one all mile races in the future will be started from there. The mutuel building and the entrance at Pimlico have been remodeled, sixty-five feet being added to the former structure, while an entirely new entrance to the grandstand has been constructed. The ticket selling booths have been so arranged as to avoid any congestion, while several more aisles have been added to the entrance where the" tickets arc taken up. There will be sixty-three sellers in the mutuel building, half of this number being set aside for those purchasing tickets. There will be over 400 men employed in this department alone, which, by the way, is a model of is kind.
