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NEW YORK RACING SEASON OPENS AT JAMAICA PAUMONOK HANDICAP » Inaugural Feature Attracts High-Class Field. * Silver Fox, Croyden and Other Stars Named — Look for Capacity Attendance. ♦ NEW YORK. N. T., April 23— After two days of apetizing sport, Thursday and today, at Belmont Terminal, under the auspices of the United Hunts Racing Association, the regular New York racing season of 1927 will be inaugurated at Jamaica Monday. Never before in the long history of the turf in the Empire state were conditions more auspicious on the eve of a new racing season as those prevailing now. Interest and enthusiasm in the approaching Metropolitan Jockey Club meeting at Jamaica were never more pronounced, which undoubtedly will be strikingly illustrated Monday by a capacity attendance. The eighteenth running of the Iaumonok Handicap is the chief offering of the splendid opening day program. For this $." ,o:0 added feature, which is at three-quarters of a mile, eighteen smashing exponents of speed are named to measure strides and there is every prospect for a stubbornly contested struggle every stride of the distance. The Rancocas Stables Silver Fox, which should have been benefited by his race at Havre de Grace the opening day of that Maryland meeting, is the top weight in the Paumonok with 12Z pounds. Though Silver Fox was beaten at Havre de Grace, he finished going like a streak after being in close quarters most of the way, indicating that he is on edge and will be hard to heat. H. P. Whitneys Croyden, which finished second in the Harford Handicap at Havre de Grace, in the same race in which Silver Fox ran, is looked upon as the logical favorite for Mondays Jamaica feature. He is in at 118 pounds and likewise appears on edge. Two other entries from the Rancocas Stable are Sankari and Celidon. The first mentioned is a Derby candidate and there will be much interest in his performance should he start. The Argentine-bred Copiapo. after a winter in this country, may make his debut in the Paumonok and with only 110 pounds may prove dangerous. In every way the field for the first big stake event of the metropolitan circuit is worthy of the occasion and, as mentioned above, should provide a big thrill for the inaugural gathering. The remainder of the program is in keeping with the occasion and nothing is lacking to start the season in a propitious manner, providing the weather man does his part in furnishing the right atmospheric conditions — bright sunshine and summer-like breezes.
