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METROPOLITAN RACING SEASON BEGINS TODAY — • g Sport on the New York Tracks to Be Inaugurated at Jamaica 1 Eight Named for Paumonok Handicap, Outstanding Feature of First Day — Suffolk Claiming Stakes Secondary Attraction » NEW YORK, N. Y., April 28.— Racing is back in New York for the 1925 season. The meeting of the Metropolitan Jockey Club begins at the Jamaica course Wednesday afternoon and it marks the beginning of the turf year over the New York tracks, that continues until the end of October. The two-day meeting of the United Hunts Racing Association | £t Belmont Park Saturday and Monday was a delightful curtain raiser, but the real racing year begins at Jamaica. It is the beginning of the season that holds out so many glorious promises of the greatest of all sports. As usual it is the Paumonok Handicap, a three-quarters test, that is the feature of the opening program. There have been bigger fields entered for this prize, but it is a renewal that promises well in the eight that are named. H. C. "Bud" Fisher is represented in the field by Nellie Morse, the Preakness winner ; of last year, and Swope, a candidate for both the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby of this year. H. P. Whitneys colors are to be carried by the fleet-footed Maud Muller, destined I I for many of the big filly offerings of the year. Then this sweet miss has for a running mate j i Noah, one that has already raced at Havre de Grace this year. The Greentree Stable has its — ®representative, The Vintner, one that was seasoned by racing in New Orleans and Maryland. Worthmore represents the Everglade Stable of John S. Ward and Frederick Burton, and Lee Rosenberg has as his starter Sun Pal, while Serenader will bear the silks of the Sanford Stock Farm Stable. Under the weight arrangements this renewal should be a worthy one and each one cf the candidates has shown a readiness for the colors. Then there is the Suffolk Stakes, a two-year-old dash of five-eighths, under claiming conditions, that brings William Daniels Es-carra under silks. This fellow was rated by many as the best of the New Orleans juveniles and he was intended for a start in the 0,000 Aberdeen Stakes at Havre de Grace last Saturday, but there was a change in plans when he became slightly indisposed. Blakely has him back now and is the top weight of the company tinder 117 pounds. It will be remembered that it was in the Suffolk that Morvich began a string of victories that carried him safely through the Kentucky Derby of the following year. HIGH CLASS PROGRAM . The other races offer a fitting setting for the two features. For an opening contest | ; the offering is a five and a half furlong dash that calls together a good band of three-I I year-olds and with sixteen named it is the largest field of the day. There follows a I three-quarters dash under claiming conditions, j with ten good ones named. This, with I •, the two features, brings the entertainment up to a mile and seventy yards race for platers and at the end of the program there is a five-eighths dash for maiden juveniles. Altogether the program is much the same as that of other years and it is one that will attract an immense opening day crowd, no matter what the weather man has to say about the opening. All is in readiness for the new racing season and for a considerable time the track j j has been in midseason condition. Jamaica I | has been a favored training ground through j ■ the spring and for that reason it has been j ; kept in a condition that would have made the opening of the season possible weeks ago. ] Train arrangements have been made from j j the Pennsylvania station and the Flatbush ! avenue station in Brooklyn. The first of ! the race trains will leave at 12:30 oclock and they will continue at frequent intervals until 1:55 oclock. Jhe horses will be called to the post for the first race at 2:30 oclock 1 and with the running of a six-race program they always make it possible to have the crowds back home before 6 oclock in the evening. Each year New York is race hungry in the spring, but it is doubtful if there ever was the same eagerness for the opening of the season. The sport has been steadily growing in public favor and at the beginning of the new season it is safe to prtdict that new records for attendance will be the rule all through the racing year. A.
