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ISSUE JAMAICA BOOKS % Secretary Rehberger Distributes Programs of the Meeting. • Paumonok Handicap Features the Opening Program — Wood Stakes Set for May 1. ♦ NF.W YORK". N. Y„ April I.— Racing secretary Fred Rehberger of the Metropolitan .loekey Club, has issued the stake and condition book for the meeting which is scheduled to open at Jamaica on Wednesday, April LS, and run until Thursday, May 20. As was announced recently, the Paumonok Handicap, $".,000 added, for three-year-olds and over, at three-quarters, will be decided on the opening day. As a companion race the Suffolk Claiming Stakes, ,000 added, for two-year-olds, at five-eighths, will ic carded. These, in addition to four good overnight races, will make a program that should furnish first" class sport to the eager racing folk who have been forced to pass the winter in discussing the merits of their favorite thoroughbreds. No fewer than fifty-seven high-class entries were received for the Paumonok, which, it is confidently expected, will furnish a first-class contest. It is thought that the starters will include Sarazen, Worthmore. Lucky Play, Sun Flag, Talhvood, Sarmaticus, Anna Mai rone IF.. Mino, Silver Fox, Superlette. I rs;i Major. Noah, Senalado, Patroon, AV hi ska long. Pieme, P.ull Run. Son of John and Catalan, all of which are in active training at the New York tracks, or taking part in the Maryland campaign. nOtll DAYS CAM. On tin- second day of the meeting, Thursday, April 2!», the Highland Claiming Stakes, .tt0o added, for three-year-olds, at three-quarters, has a good band of platers engaged. Fridays card is given over to overnight races, with a handicap at three-quarters, with ,200 added, as the feature. For Saturday. May 1, the Colorado Stakes of ..O00. for two-year-olds, at five-eighths. lias a smashing entry of ninety-eight, which includes practically every good juvenile now in training in the vicinity of New York. On the same day, New Yorkers will see the best of the three-year-olds in action in the "Wood Stakes. ..r 00 added, for entire colts and fillies. It is a test of one mile and seventy yards, and the entries include Pomp-y, Chance Ilay, Rlack Maria. Flat Iron. Post Tim Nurmi. Navigator, Pumpkin. Festival. Timmara. Nichavo, Siren, Penstick, Apple-cross. Display. Flight of Time, Macaw, Color Sergeant. Rlondin. Rolls Royce, Kspino and Colorful. Monday. May ::. has the Montauk Claiming Stakes. BS,SSS added, for two-year-olds, at Jive-eighths, with eighty-eight nominations. The Long Peach Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, $::,.r 00 added, at a mile and a sixteenth, is scheduled for Tuesday. May 4. Wednesday and Fridays programs will consist of overnight races, but on Thursday. May C. the Olympic Claiming Stakes. .l»nt added, for three-year-olds and over, at three-quarters mile, should bring out a fast field. KIMiS COlSTY HANIHI Al The Kinsjs County Handicap. $,".,000 added, for three-year -olds and over, at a mile and u sixteen! li. is down for decision on Saturday. May S. On the following Monday the Rainbow Handicap. ,500 added, for three-year-olds and over, at three-quarters, will he run. The best of the two-year-old fillies will try conclusions in the Rosedale Stakes of $:i.0t»i. over the five-eighths route, on Tuesday. May 11. On Wednesday the Newtown Claiming Stakes, ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over, at three-quarters, has sixty-nine eligihles. Those that have been named for the other claiming events at Jamaica are in this event also. i One of the best races of the meeting, from a spectacular standpoint, will be run on Thursday. May IS, when the pick of the three- ear-olds will meet in the Spring Handicap ...00 added, at three-quart rs. Friday s program is an overnight one. while on Saturday. May IS, all the two-y eai -del cracks are expected to go to the pMt in the Youthful Stakes of ,000. at live-eighths. The Fx-c-elsior Handicap, to he run on the same day, will l.e 1 1 1 • - fourth rase on the program, and will have $."..000 added. It is a test of a mile and a sixteenth, and was inaugurated iti ISIS. It was won by Sting last year. Monday. May 17, has as its feature the Greenfield Claiming Stakes, .ooo added, for two- ear-olds, at live-eighths. Tuesdays feature is the Southampton Handieap, ,500 added, for thi.e-yeal-olds. at one mile and a sixteenth. All the pood ones, with the exception of lompe, are named for this eent. "Wednesday:- card eonsists of overnight race*, while the stake of Thursday, when the meeting closes, is the Harden City Claiming Stakes. S-.ooo added, f r three-year-olds and Ovur, at one mile and a sixteenth.
