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NEW YORK REGULAR SEASON • Opens Wednesday, April 29, at Popular Jamaica Course. Panmonok Handicap and Colorado Stakes the Principal Attractions for the Inaugural Days Sport. ■ NEW YORK. N. Y., April 19.— Though local racing enthusiasts will have an opportunity to witness their favorite sport at Belmont Park next Saturday and the following Monday, when the two days meeting of the United Hunts starts the ball rolling in this vicinity, the regular racing season under the jurisdiction of The Jockey Club will not open until Wednesday, April 29, and the Jamaica management is all ready for the throng that is confidently looked for by president Kilroe and his associates. The chief event of the day will be the Paumonok Handicap of a value of ,500. This sprinting stake of the spring meeting of the Metropolitan Jockey Club should have one of the best fields that ever went to the post for a similar race in this country. Sarazen, Ladkin and Wise Counsellor alone would constitute a stellar attraction, but there are many other fast ones among the sixty-one nominations. The Suffolk Claiming Stakes for two-year-olds is also down for decision on the opening day. The Highland Claiming Stakes for three-year-olds at three-quarters mile is the feature for Thursday. Friday will have a strong card of overnight events framed by racing secretary Fred Rehberger to bring out good fields. Saturdays card is embellished by the Wood Stakes, value 0,000, for three-year-olds, and trife Colorado Stakes, value of ,000 for two-year-olds, two of the best features of the spring campaign. The first named is for colts and fillies exclusively and will be run over the mile and seventy yard route. Conspicuous among its sixty-five nominations are Stimulus. Captain Hal, Sunny Man, Sumpter, Candy Kid, Swinging, Felix, Devonshire, Nedana, Silver Fox, Sunsard, Nicholas, Blue Ridge, Cloudland, Coventry, Young Martin, Bright Steel, Pocantico, Beatrice, Laplander, King Jimmy, Campfire Tales, Borderland and Needle Gun. Many of the above are eligible for the Belmont, Preakness and Dwyer Stakes, as well as the Kentucky Derby and the Wood Stakes is certain to bring out a thoroughly representative field. The Colorado Stakes has the best tried of last years crop of yearlings on its roster, and on paper it looks like a first class race. The card for the remainder of the meeting is quite in keeping with the traditions of Jamaica, which long ago took its place as a center of outdoor recreation for New York and contiguous territory.
