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MISSOURI RACING TODAY Riverside Park at Kansas City to Throw Open Its Gates on Decoration Day. KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 29.— The Missouri racing season for 1929 will be ushered in at the beautiful Riverside course, at Park-vine, Decoration Day, when the Riverside Jockey Club will open its summer meeting of thirty-one days. The opening feature will be the running of the Decoration Day Handicap, which has attracted such good ones as Master Sweep and Bocaratone, from the stable of Mrs. W. J. Potter; Mrs. C. R. Allens Bride o the Wind, and Caravan, Glint o Gold, Mrs. L S. Hectors good four-year-old. The track, which has been resurfaced, is In excellent condition, and many good workouts have been reported. All stable room has been filled to overflowing. All races at a half mile, the Riverside course, seven-eighths, seven and a half furlongs and at one mile and an eighth will be run out of the stall gates in chutes. The official family will consist of Lee J. Rose, presiding steward, Ed. Knebelkamp, racing secretary and placing judge ; B. H Held, placing judge and clerk of the scales. ■ • • l ; [ J i . , - i - 1 i - 2 . ,
