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ONLY SIX MORE DAYS ♦ United Hunts to Open New York Season Next Saturday. ♦ Excellent Program Arranged for Two Days Meeting — Subscribers for Sporting Plate. ♦ NEW YORK. N. T.. April 18.— All roads •will lead to Belmont Park next Saturday, where the thoroughbreds will be seen in action on the first of the two-day meeting under the auspices of the United Hunts Racing Association, of which John McE. Bowman is the president. While the United Hunts meeting is largely devoted to amateur sport and will probably become purely amateur in a later period, now that the Hunts Association has become a sturdy youngster instead of the sickly turf infant that had to be coddled so tenderly in order to keep it alive, its place in the racing calendar is one of importance. For the opening secretary Harry A. Buck has arranged an attractive program of seven races with the Initial Handicap. ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over, at three-quarters, on the main course, and the Cotton Exchange Steeplechase of ,000, over the "about two-mile" course, as the features. The first named closed with seventy entries and the names of some of the best sprinters in training are to be found in the list. Among those named are Sarazen, the crack of the Fair Stable, which is top weight with 122 pounds; Shuffle Along, Aga Khan, Braca-dale, Ncdana, Sheridan, Long Point. Irish Marine, Catalan, Beatrice, Voltaic, Wild Aster, The Vintnef, Superlette, Zuker. Goshawk, Rigel, Flying Ebony, Sun Audience. I,anius. Arcady, Happy Thoughts, Noah and Faddist. TOUCH OF SENTIMENT. A touch of sentiment has been injected into the Cotton Exchange Steeplechase through the presentation of a piece of plate valued at 50 to the owner of the winner, by Thomas McCreery. who makes the offering in memory of his late employer, Julius Fleischmann. It is safe to assume that this trophy will be more highly prized than the purse by the individual fortunate enough to see his colors first across the line. On Monday, the second day of the United Hunts meeting, six races will constitute the card, with the Sporting Plate, a private sweepstakes for two-year-olds, and the Master of Foxhounds Association Steeplechase at about three and one-half miles, over a timber course, the features. Each nominator in the Sporting Plate pays 00, and the winner takes all in addition to the piece of gold plate of a value of ,000, donated by the United Hunts Racing Association. The event closed on March 15, with thirty-six subscriptions. As will be noted by the appended list, a few nominators took two subscriptions : Borden. Howard S.. 1 llostwiek. A. I 1 How in an. Jolin McE. . 1 lark. V. Ambrose.. 1 Cochran, Clifford A... 1 Shoshone Stable 2 Field, Marshall 2 Uarth, Woods 1 lorry, Robert L, 1 ♦xoodstone Stable .... 1 ireentree Stable 2 Hamilton Farm 1 Hltt. Mrs. K. B. ... 1 Jeffords. Mrs. W. M. 1 lenders. Mrs. C. W.. 1 Loft. G. W 1 Ix sr Cabin Stud 1 Madden. J. E 1 Maxwell. II. V 1 McCreery, Thos. II.. 1 Iratt. II. 1 1 Newtondale Stable... 1 Oak Itidgc Stable. .. 1 Kam-oeas Stable .... 1 Head. Wm. A 2 Saice, II. W 1 Salmon, Walter J.... 1 Waterbury, L. 1 Whitney, II. P 1 Widener. Geo. D . 1 Ziegler, Wm., Jr 2 The Master of Foxhounds Association Steeplechase is for a purse of ,000. It is for hunters duly registered by the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association and should bring th« hunt devotees out in force. There is something sporting about those long races over timber, where the gentleman riders have to be as fit as their horses. They invariably attract society and feeling runs high as the rivalries between the various hunts develop.
