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NEW YORK RACING SEASON OF 1926 ON HAND y • Sport on Metropolitan Circuit to Be Inaugurated at Jamaica * Paumonok Handicap Big Feature of Opening Day — Suffolk Stakes a Supplementary Attraction — Fair Weather and Large Crowd Expected ♦ NKW YORK. N. Y., April XI. — Now comes the opening of the big turf season in New-York. The Metropolitan Jockey Club will begin its twenty-day meeting at the Jamaica course tomorrow afternoon. It is the .day that the faithful have waited and longed for all through the long winter, while those who raced through the cold months, no matter where, have counted the days until the thoroughbreds would be back in New York. With the prosafse Of fair weather all signs point to an opening such as was never before enjoyed in New York and the number of horses that are entered in the various offerings tell of what is in store in the way of sport. Of course the Paumonok Handicap is the bis event of the day. This is a three-rpiarters dash and it is expected that all nine of those that have been named through the entry box will be seen under silks. Of those carded, H. P. Whitneys Noah is the one that has already been seasoned by racing and his victories at Bowie and Havre de Grace pronounce him a greatly improved sprinter over last year. He is in the Paumonok under 120 pounds, a — — -=® — « steadying steadying impost, impost, considering considering the the horses horses he he steadying steadying impost, impost, considering considering the the horses horses he he has to meet, but his condition will play an important part in his performance. He will be ridden by "Pony" McAtee. who has also been seasoned by his race riding in Maryland, and this talented jockey is riding with the same skill he has shown for several years. Put Noah is meeting a better band of horses than could be mustered against him in Maryland though the ones most likely to be feared have not been seen at the races this year. There is Lucky Play from tin-Log Cabin Stable, in well under 11G pounds, and should he race kindly is calculated to keep the best of the sprinters exceedingly busy. He will be piloted by Thurber. F.AKI, SANDK TO ItlDK. The Oak Ridge Stable is represented by both Mino and Condc, and Karl Sande will have the mount on one or the other of them. Mino was started at the Terminal, but his race would suggest that he was under a handicap galloping over the turf course, and he is sure to show at better advantage at Jamaica. He has attracted considerable attention in his preparation ami has done just about all that is requested of him by John Loftus. Then there is Silver Fox. from the Pan-cocas Stable. Sam Hildreth fitted the imported grey at the New Jersey farm, and he was about ready to race when he arrived at Belmont J ark. That Mr. Yosburgh has a high opinion of his quality is evidenced when he is the top weight for the Paumonok, 121 pounds. He is looking extremely well and has shown that he is ready to run. He will have Laverne Fator for his pilot and it is entirely possible that he will give the winner plenty of entertainment, if he does not win himself. Others in the field are Cartoonist, a thoroughly good horse. Magic Call. Zuker ami Navigator from the Greentree Stable. They are all pronounced fit and ready and the Paumonok should furnish an excellent contest and one to fittingly begin the 102C racing season here. BM I IF.II FOR SFFFOI.K. There is a second feature in the Suffolk-Stakes, under claiming conditions at fivv-e ighths test for two-year-olds. While this race is under claiming conditions it will bring out a likely band, and it must bfl remembered that Morvich began his racing career by a victory in the- Suffolk and went on through the year without losing a race. Then he came back in 1922 to win the Kentucky Derby. Thus it may be seen that possibly a champion may be ridden in a claiming race early in the year. Fourteen are named for the Suffolk, and a second juvenile race of the day has attracted nineteen entries, giving an idea of the number of baby racers that are on hand and ready for the- silks. The other races that Fr.d Rehbersjer has furnished for the first clay of the Jamaica meeting offer a fitting setting for the- features and there should be plenty of contention in each. A numl er of the starte-rs have had a certain amount of seasoning, while- the others are we-11 enough advane-ed to set at rest any idea of the backward spring resulting in a number of backward horses. Tuesday was a busy day at the track, with the many last minute details to be taken ear.- of. the issuing of badges and the assignment of horses to their stalls. Several shipments arrived during the day at all the- Long Island training grounds and the horse- vans will do a rushing business transporting the thoroughbreds from P..-I mont Park and Aqueduct to Jamaica, whin a t iintiiiiK el on si xtt-e-titli •-•■ NEW YORK RACING ON HAND Continued from fir t pa?e no more room remains for the reception of horses. And in New York there was a like activity when in the offices of The Jockey Club action was taken on the applications from various jockeys and trainers for licenses. It was well that this meeting was held, for horsemen are proverbial pro. rastinators and many iif the-m would have been found without licenses at the opening season here. Dong ago Jena lea was all ready for the opening. There have- been some changes made since the meeting last fall, and the whole place has been brightened up for the new racing season. The track proper has been in excellent condition for a considerable time, and horses have been training over it at times close to racing speed for many days. The tram a i rang. -incuts are much the same as in other ears, there being frequent specials from both tlie- Pennsylvania Station in New York and the Flat busk Avenue and Nostra nd Avenue Stations in Brooklyn. Then the motor route has been mapped out and that will he one Of the popular methods of reaching the course. The first race will be e-nlleel to the post at 2 M p. in.
