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RACING AT OMAHA TODAY Plenty of Good Horses Available Availableand and Outlook Bright for a Most MostSuccessful Successful Meeting OMAHA Neb June 2 When the manage ¬ ment of AkSurIIen fifhl throws open tho gates for the spring rade meeting tomorrow Omaha racing fans are due to see some of the best thoroughbreds that ever performed n this section of the country in action Over GOO head of horses have Iieen quartered at the track for the past week and the arrival of a special train from Salt Lake City last night hrought the number up to many more Included in the Salt I tke contingent were the strings of O B Irwin H F Carman R M Hollenbeck and Swastika Stable The latter establishments were among the lead ¬ ing money winners at Salt Iake IakeThe The Omaha course never looked more beautiful and the racing strip due to the untiring efforts of track superintendent Ronin and his crew is in perfect condition and track records are almost sure to be shattered during the first week of the meet ¬ ing ingThe The big feature for opening day is the Speed Inaugural Handicap which lias at ¬ tracted some first class sprinters Nine are scheduled to go in this event C B Irwin and 15 Creech each nominating two The pair to carry the popular Irwin colors are Runolathe and Flicker while ISdmon and Traproe will represent Mr Creech R F Carmans fast horse Easter Bells is also entered as well as W J Potters Boy O Boy and F C Marmets Headache Others that will try for the 1000 purse are Centimeter Randals Royal Foxmore and Sun Brae BraeSupporting Supporting the feature are six fine races and with the exception of the first and sixth all are filled to overflowing while many had to be excluded Some very promising riding material have made application for permis ¬ sion to ply their vocation among them being Eddie Taplin A Rodriguez I Neal F Moore K Carpenter I Saucier B Maskrid T Buell A Anderson V Wallis C Rails D IIurn M Hum L Mills and C McCorkle McCorkleThat That the racing will be kept above re ¬ proach is assured by a glance over the list of officials which include Dr F W Ashe presiding judge Perry Reed associate judge Charles L Trimble racing secretary J S Rothert clerk of scales John Carey paddock judge and James Donovan starter starterThis This will be Mr Donovans first appear ¬ ance at Omaha in an official capacity but horsemen who have seen him perform in the West are loud in their praise of his work and the post delays will likely be short shortThe The horses in the first race tomorrow will go postward at 2 15 n in and thet manage ¬ ment has made arrangements to handle a recordbreaking crowd
