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LATEST NEWS FROM EAST G L Blackford to Race at Bowie Record Snowfall at Spa Jockeys Ordered to Report NEW YORK N Y February 1 George L Blackford did so well with the string that he took to Bowie last November that he has decided to race next spring over the course of the Southern Maryland Association It was at Bowie that Maximac won the Thanks ¬ giving Handicap on the last day of the Bowie meeting There were fourteen went to the post for the 10000 race and back of the Blackford colt finished such good ones as Hephaistos Rockminister Nedna Copper Demon Bon Homme Allover Opperman Captain Alcock Paul Jones Emotion Blazes John Paul Jones with Lucky Hour last of the field This was a remarkable field to be brought to the post so late in the year as November 30 and it is not likely that Mr Blackford will soon forget the victory of his good colt over such a sterling band of horses It is small wonder that the horses are to be shipped back to the same track and the announcement has been made that in addition to Maximac there will be taken along Admirer and ten others othersThe The various stakes for the summer meet ¬ ing of the Empire City Racing Association as well as its 5000 Autumn Championship Stakes closed at midnight Thursday Re ¬ turns for all of the offerings have been par ¬ ticularly liberal but it will be some days before all of the nominations have been counted and the results definitely made known knownJoe Joe McCarty has written from Saratoga that from December to January 25 the snowfall record for the Spa was just five feet nine inches Not much like the Saratoga we will journey to in August but always a delightful Saratoga be it winter or sum ¬ mer merThere There has been an abundance of snow at all of the northern training quarters and it is always welcome It means that there is better opportunity to have the horses out than when the ground is frozen hard hardAt At all of the Long Island tracks it has been possible to have the horses out almost every day of the winter and one 3s reminded that the racing season is not far away from the manner in which the jockeys are being ordered to report to their employers Sam Hildreth brought young Fator on from Tijuana some time ago Sande has been busy at Belmont Park working with Dave Leary in making ready a big string of Ran cocas Stable twoyearolds twoyearoldsChick Chick Lang has been ordered to report to the J S Cosden stable in Virginia and he will be through with his New Orleans riding Friday Clarence Turner must be with the Riviera Stable not later than March 1 and many of the others have had their orders to report
