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i , i j ] . RACING IN NEW YORK ♦ Spring Meetings in Empire State Two Weeks Distant. ♦ United Hunts on April 25 and 27 — Then Regular Season Opens at Jamaica April 29. — s ■ NKW YORK, N. Y.. April 11. —The fine spring weather with which New York has b;»en favored of late has not only started the buds and made the pastures green, but given the followers of the turf r yearning for the opening of the racing season, now happily only two weeks distant. Few of the veterans of the turf can recall as early a season in this vicinity, and if the horses that have been galloping for some weeks at Belmont Park, Aqueduct. Jamaica and Empire City have no setbacks, there should be little difficulty in filling the cards at Jamaica, where The Jockey Club season will he opened on Wednesday. April 29. There will be two days sport prior to that date, however, thanks to the enterprise of the United Hunts, whose spring meeting will be held at Belmont Park on Saturday, April 25 and Monday. April 27. This organization, which has for its object the perpetuation of the amateur spirit in racing, has taken a new lease of life under the leadership of the indefatigable John McE. Bowman, who is now its president. Mr. Bowman has brought into racing many of the characteristics that have made him an outstanding figure in other walks of life. His friends have rallied around him, and the attendance at the spring and autumn two-day meetings have evidenced the popularity that assures them of a permanent place in the racing schedule for this part of the coun-I try. , The amateur in racing has played a part that cannot be ignored, and Mr. Bowman and his associates are doing good work in helping perpetuate the thoroughbred through making him better known in recreative fields. Such amateur meetings as those at Itelmont Park and Meadowbrook do much to promote the best interests of the turf. That Jamaica will begin The Jockey Club season under favorable conditions seems assured. Mr. Rehberger has provided one of his best programs for the opening. The horses are ready. If the clerk of the weather is kind, nothing will be undone to guarantee Continued on twelfth page. | I j ! RACING IN NEW YORK Continued from first pagc.j the sort of opening that used to bring a sparkle to the gray-blue eyes of the late Eugene D. Wood, one of the largest stockholders of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, and in whose honor the chief three-year-old fixture of the meeting has been named. The track appears to be as fast as ever, judging by the way the horses are moving over it. and a new record may be made in the Pau-monok for which the best thoroughbreds in training are scheduled to meet over the three-quarters route. It is seldom that the winner of three such events as the First, Second and Third International Specials meet, but that is what is in prospect at Jamaica on Wednesday, April 29, as Wise Counsellor, Ladkin and Sarazen, the respective winners of the sensational races in which Epinard participated are all eligible for the ,500 sprinting stake, which was won last year by St. James. The Paumonok was at one time raced for about the middle of the Jamaica meeting, which opened with the Excelsior Handicap, the mest valuable race of the meeting for three-year-olds and over. Those were the days when the Brooklyn Handicap was raced for on the first day at Gravesend and the Suburban Handicap had pride of place on the opening at Sheepshead Bay. There | wasnt as much racing in that period, and it was the custom to make as brave a show- i ing as possible on the various openings. The Brooklyn and Suburban are each races1 of a mile and a quarter, and candidates had a long and steady preparation far them. Nowadays secretaries are put to it to arrange their programs so as to get the best j possible representation in the various events. ! Because of this the Paumonok, the test pos- i sible sort of a preparatory race for the Ex-relator, which is at a mile and a sixteenth ! and carded for Saturday, May 9, is down for decision on the opening day. In addition to Wise Counsellor. Ladkin and Sarazen. the Paumonok has other speedy thoroughbreds engaged, conspicuous among the number being the three-year-olds Stimulus, Young Martin. Nicholas, Cloudland. Swope. Voltaic. Sunny Man. Sunsard, Ne-dana. Primrose, Candy Kid. Maud Muller, Swinging, Noah and Senalado. In the older division are Nellie Morse, Goshawk, Shuffle Along, Battel sea. Worthmore, The Vintner, Little Chief, Lucky Play. Bracadale, Anna Marrone II., Sun Pal. Sheridan. Serenader. Wbiskalong and Happy Thoughts. It should be a fine contest, worthy of the battles of other years. The Suffolk Stakes, a claiming event for two-year-old=. will also be on the card for the opening day. It has an added value of ,000 and received eighty entries. These selling and claiming fixtures early in the year are often patronized by owners of colts and fillies away above the plating division and one must needs have a shifty juvenile in order to score in one of them. On Thursday the Highland Claiming Stakes, ,000 added, for th"ee-year-olds, at three-quarters, has been scheduled by Mr. Rehberger as a medium for thrills. This event closed with fifty-one nominations and lias some pretty BVBmrt colts and lillies engaged. Among the eligibles are Barney Google, Watts, McCrim-mon. Emissary. Jmme Girl, Saratoga Maje. Kathleen Crosby, Hoot Mon, Hayward, Lawless, Killashandra. Faddist and Hidalgo. Fridays card will be made up of oversight races at various distances, with the Lyn-brook Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, for a purse of ,200, holding more promise in the way of interest than any of the other races. One of the h* st days sport of the spring should result from the rard for Saturday. May 2. The Wood Stakes, for three-year-olds, and the Colorado Stakes, for two-year-• olds, are enough to draw a throng. These fixtures will probably bring to the post the cracks in their respective divisions. The Wood, which is at a mile and seventy yards, has a value of 0,000. while the Colorado will be worth ,000. Th. latter Is a dash jof five-eighths. Among the eligibles for the Wood are Stimulus. Sunny Man, Sunsard, Sunipter, Candy Kid, Swinging, Felix, Re- i member. Senalado, Campfire Tales, Silver Vox, Nedana. Beatrice. Superlette. Hedge-fence, Swope, Voltaic, Nicholas, Bright Steel, Cloudland, Blue Ridge, Fast Mail and Young Martin. The Wood will probably see Stimulus in his first race as a three-year-old. There will be interest in the showing of Hedgefence, whose victory in the Tijuana Derby in the Greentree colors would indicate that he pos- ; sessts class. Sons of Fair Play will be seen | in action in the Wood, in all probability. The get of this horse have a way of improv : ing between their two and three-year-old careers, and the showing of Swope and Kelix will be scrutinized closely br-cause of! the Nursery sale on May 15. when so many I of the get of Fair Play will pass under the hammer. This writer offered 0,000 for Swope on behalf of Major Belmont during the early spring of 1924. Felix gave a touch of his quality by winning the Flash Stakes at Saratrga. He is now working well at Belmont Park. The Colorado Stakes closed with 113 nnm- i inations, representing the pick of the various stables in the East. It should bring out many of the supposed cracks hereabouts, and give the public a line on the juveniles of j 1925. Many of the best colts and fillies will be kept la their boxes until later on, but a sufficient number to make a worth-while race may be confidently expected to parade for this prize, which is only surpassed for two-year-olds at Jamaica by the Youthful Stakes. This race has a value of ,000, I and is to be run off on Saturday, May 16.
