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I . 1 ; PLANS FOR HUNTS MEETING Arrangements Made for Special Car to Bring Horses From Maryland Track to Terminal Course. NEW YOBK. N. Y., April 15.— Secretary H. A. Buck of the United Hunts Bacing Association, announced yesterday that a special horse car will be run from Pimlico and Havre de Grace, leaving Pimlico April 18, for Belmont Park Terminal, for horses entered and starting at the United Hunts spring meeting on Thursday, April 21, and Saturday, April 23. The car will return to Pimlico on April 24. Indications are that the approaching meeting will be one of the most important in the history of the association as regards number and quality of the entries and the social brilliance of the attendance. Special trains will leave the Pennsylvania station at 12 :30 and 1 :40 p. m., connecting at Jamaica with trains leaving Flatbush avenue station, Brooklyn. The trains will return immediately, and forty minutes after the last race on both days of the meeting. The program for April 21, consists of six good races, the outstanding features being the Biltinore Steeplechase, for four-year-olds and over, about two miles over brush, for a purse of ,500, and the Initial Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, three-quarters, for ,000 added. The event closed with sixty entries. Other events on opening day are the introductory purse, ,000. for two-year-olds, about one-half mile ; the Goshen, a hurdle race, for a purse of ,200, four-year-olds and over, about one mile and a half, over hurdles ; the Nassau, three-year-olds and over, ,000, claiming, about three-quarters mile, and the Turf and Field, four-year-olds and over. ,000, about one mile. The second day of the meeting opens with the Hempstead a hurdle race for four-year-olds and over for a purse of ,200, about one mile and a half, over hurdles. The second race, the Sportsmans Steeplechase Dinner Stakes, is one of the interesting features of the day. It is for gentlemen riders and the distance is about three miles over the brush course. The race is for four-year-olds and over, and is a private sweepstakes, by subscription of 00 each, to the winner, with a valuable cup added by the United Hunts. The third race is the Belmont, ,000, two-year-olds, claiming, about one-half mile. The fourth race is the Sporting Plate, two-year-olds, four and a half furlongs. This closed with twenty-six subscriptions. The fifth race is the Cotton Exchange, a handicap steeplechase, for four-year-olds and over, for a purse of ,500, about two miles over the brush. The Between-the-Flags, a steeplechase for hunters, at about two miles and a half over brush for a purse of ,000, L. sixth on the card. The seventh race is tlw North Shore Purse, ,000. three-year-olds and over, claiming, about one mile. a
