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NEW YORK RACING SEASON ♦ Close Approach Indicated by Weights for Panmonok Handicap. ♦ Sarazen the Top Weight With lit Ponnds— Silver Fox Next With 125 — Sweepster Leads the Three-Year-Olds. • NEW YORK, N. T.t April 15.— Interest In the opening of the racing season of 1927 on The Jockey Clubs courses, scheduled for Monday, April 25, was increased yesterday by the release on the part of racing secretary Henry Pebler of the weights for the Pau-monok Handicap, the feature of the first days sport at Jamaica. A study of the imposts allotted the sixty-two candidates, will convince turf followers that Mr. Vosburgh, the official handicapper of The Jockey Club, has done a good piece of work. Sarazen, as was to be expected, is top weight at 130 pounds, with the Ran-cocas crack Silver Fox in receipt of five pounds. Croyden is considered the best of Harry Payne Whitneys lot and gets 118 pounds, the same burden as the fleet Sarma-tieus from the Aknusti Stable. Two of the fastest of the probable runners — Vespasian and Flight of Time, get 117 each. The crack South American racer Copiapo. which has wintered in the care of John Loftus at Belmont Park, is in well at 110 pounds, and is a sure starter. It is interesting to note that The Jockey Clubs expert ranks Sweepster as the best of the three-year-olds that have been named for this first of the sprinting stakes of the meeting. He gets 111 pounds, one more than E raconis. the speedy son of North Star III., in the stable of G. A. Cochran, and three more than his speedy stable companion San-kari. Pandera, considered by many the speediest of the two-year-old fillies last year, is weighted at 105 pounds, which is also th« impost of the Belair Studs good colt General Lee and the Whitney three-year-old Whiskery. Pantella has 104 and Black Curl 103. The promising Premier gets 102, Lodina, 99 ; Peter Peter, 98, and Charade, 97. From present appearances the field for the Paumonok. which will be worth about ,000, will be both large and representative. The conditions and weights follow ; PAUMONOK HANDICAP. ,000 added, for three-year-olds and over, three-quarters mile. Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Sarazen ISO Amberjack 104 Silver Fox 125 Saxon lot Croyden 118 Black Carl 103 Sarmaticus 118 Raraoneur 102 Flight of Time 117 Premier 102 Vespasian 117 Nimba 100 Senalado 110 Murxim 100 Happy Argo 114 Court Day 10O Celidon 114 Lodina 90 Color Sergeant 112 Flecbita 98 Cartoonist 110 Peter Peter 98 Copiapo 110 Top Twig 98 Sweepster Ill Uncle Hood 9K Navigator 110 Circlet 97 Draconis 110 Charade 97 Powhatan 110 Jim Crow 97 Sankari ,....108 Byrd 97 Hal II 107 Morbelle 95 Devonshire 107 Illegitimate 95 Pandera 105 Mote 95 Claptrap 106 Filemaker 97 Vesington King 106 Ominous 95 Whiskery 105 Bucephalus 90 Cheops 106 Golden Pennant 95 Adios 106 Blue Darter 95 Ingrid 105 Architect 05 Witehmount 104 Olowing 93 Sandy 106 Pygmalion 92 Oeneral Lee 105 Air Service 93 Phantom Price 106 flea ranee 92 Pantella 104 Lord Broom 90 Penalties accrue from 6:00 p. m. April 15. «,
