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MIAMI PEOPLE ENTHUSED Sportsmen to Make City Winter Playground of America. ,500 Dally Tursc Offering for Seven-Race Program Mutuel System of Wagering to Prevail. , MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 10. Miami, the wonder city of the south and the winter playground of North America, is making great preparations for a big season of winter sports this year. The enthusiasm of the local people in the coming race meeting at "Floridas Atlantic City" is exhilirating. Everyone in Miami is a booster for its success and the people back of this big enterprise are making every effort that this inaugural race meeting will be a brilliant one. In the directorate of the new Jockey Club are men of integrity, high in business and social circles in Florida, and when they say that Miami is to enjoy a race meeting conducted on high-class lines, with the idea principally of providing good, clean, wholesome entertainment for its visitors, it means that the sport will be of such a caliber that Floridians will welcome it as one of Miamis strongest assets. There have been no hurrahs in the advance notices sent out by the management of the Jockey Club. They have built on solid lines, with the idea mainly of making this race meeting to Miami what the race meeting at Saratoga is to the people in that part of New York State. The invitations to participate in the meeting, which were sent to some of the leading sportsmen in America, have met with hearty response and the colors of some of the greatest stables in the country will be seen at the winter meeting at Miami during the winter. LEADING STABLES ENGAGE STALLS. August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, Harry Payne Whitney, Edward F. Whitney, the Belair Stud, J. S. Cosden, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt II., the Rancocas Stable, Larry Waterbury, Edward Beal McLean, Gifford A, Cochran, Richard T. AVilson. W. S. Salmon and the Audley Farm of Mont-fort and B. B. Jones are among those who have already engaged stalls. The horses of these gentlemen will participate in the handicaps and condition races and the owners of horses of a lesser grade need have no fear but what they, too, wilL be looked after and welcomed to Miami. There will be plenty of races conditioned to suit the platers of about the same grade that are racing at the Maryland and Kentucky meetings. The club, too, will be liberal with them, the management having already decided to add no less a sum than ,500 to the seven races which will make up the daily program. This amount will be split as follows: an overnight handicap or condition race with ,500 added and six other overnight races with purses of ,000 each. SYSTE3r OF WAGERING LEGAL. There will be seven races every day, and the mutuel system of speculation wiil prevail. There may be some who prefer the oral system of booking, but this style of .peculation has not proven very popular at the winter tracks, on account of the extremely short odds quoted. Under a decision handed down by the courts of Florida, tho mutuel system is not contrary to the-law; but aside from this, the club feels as though the system where the public makes its own odds is by far the fairest to all. During the next few days Manager Luke-A. Cassidy will be in Maryland to give to the horsemen any information they may desire. J. B. Campbell, who acted as racing secretary at the recent Laurel meeting and who is one of the staff of Pimlico. will be the racing secretary at Miami. He is compilings the book for the first two weeks of the meeting, which will be ready for distribution in a. few days. In the meantime, the slogan with the horsemen and racegoers who patronize winter racing is, "Meet me in Miami, where the sua shines and the roses bloom all winter."
