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NEW YORK RACING AT HAND • Spring Meetings Under Auspices of The Jockey Club to Be Inaugurated at Jamaica, With Popular Paumonok Hamicap the Big Inaugural Feaiure « NEW YORK, N. Y., April 21.— The racing season of 1928 on the metropolitan tracks and under the auspices of The Jockey Club will be inaugurated at Jamaica Monday. The popular Paumonok Handicap is the stellar offering of a most fascinating program that will undoubtedly prove pleasing to the usual large opening day gathering, which is certain to assemble at Jamaica for the inauguration of a new racing season. A number of Preakness Stakes and Kentucky Derby eligibles appear among those named to contest in the Paumonok Handicap and, though the distance of this feature is at three-quarters, a good line may be had on the condition of the three-year-olds jcai-uiuo oiai starting. 11115. iuui More c than mail unusual uuuoum interest is manifested in the meeting of Polydor and Nassak, after the easy triumph of the former at the United Hunts meeting on Thursday. Perhaps never before in recent years has there been greater enthusiasm displayed on the days preceding the opening of a New York racing season, and the outlook for wonderful sport is indeed bright. The Paumonok Handicap is almost as old as the Metropolitan Jockey Club itself. Inquisitor, ridden by Walter Miller, in Thomas Walshs colors, accounted for its inaugural at the spring meeting of 1906, and some real top-notchers have accounted for succeeding renewals. It has always served as the opening feature of Jamaicas meetings. Secretary Pebler has reason for gratification in the response to other annual fixtures, which will be contested at the popular course before closing day on May 16. The Suffolk and Highland, two claiming stakes, which are gradually becoming venerable in tradition, will be decided during the week and on next Saturday the Colorado, a stake for juveniles, and the Wood Memorial, a mile and seventy yards contest for three-year-old fillies and colts, will run. No low or medium class juvenile has ever succeeded in capturing the Colorado Stakes. Such stars as Lucullite, Star Hampton, Cinderella, Kai-Sang, Lucky Play. Master Charlie, Draconis, Navigator and Distraction are included in its roster of victors, while the Wood Memorial, which will have its fourth annual running in the memory of the late Eugene D. Wood, has gone to Backbone, Pompey and Saxon successively since its inception. The Wood Memorial carries 0,000 added and is the first important and valuable prize offered for three-year-olds in the metropolitan district. Thanks to an open spring, many eligibles for the Wood Memorial are in unusually advanced condition and the 192S running bids fair to attract the most formidable field in its youthful history. Track superintendent Thomas Maher has the course in fine condition for the Kings County, Queens County, Youthful, Excelsior, Rosedale and the other stakes which stud the program. The rule which prohibits owners from entering a horse in more than one overnight race on the same day is bound to prove a boon to turf followers, because owners of platers will be compelled to consider these Continued on eleventh page. 1 j ! ; . j ; j j , ] . 1 lj . I , I NEW YORK RACING AT HAND Continued from first page. races much more seriously than they have sometimes done in the past. The two days of United Hunts racing offered ample testimony that Mars Cassidys walkup starting will contribute toward the greater success and formfulness of this years sport and it should be particularly advantageous at Jamaicas mile and seventy yards and a mile and a sixteenth starting points, since it will enable horses to gain positions going to that nearby first turn, where so frequently in years past many starters were eliminated. Marylands competition provides no terrors for early metropolitan sport. There are more than enough fit horses on Long Island right now for a seasons wants and, with the close of the Havre de Grace meeting and the arrival of some of its contestants, the problem of stable accommodations will become even more acute than it is at the present moment. Thomas M. Cassidy has been a most liberal nominator to the meetings juvenile events and his silks will care for their share of purses during the meeting, according to the dockers. The Dorwood Stable, which generally confined itself to steeplechasing last year upon its entry into racing, also houses a rich quota of valuable juvenile material, and it will be surprising if the blue, with white dotted jacket is not prominent in several stake decisions. Jamaica has always been a popular racing ground, especially in the spring. This year it bids fair to outdo itself.
