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WHEELING MEETING NEAR Plenty Horses on Hand for Wheeling Driving Club Racing Beginning Wednesday. WHEELING, W. Va.. April 5. With the Golden Jubilee race meeting opening here Wednesday, everything is in readiness for the bugles call. Plenty of horses and top-notchers are on the grounds, insuring splendid fields for the various feature handicaps and for the ,000 Golden Jubilee Stake, for three-year-olds. The opening feature here on Wednesday is the ,000 added Inaugural. This is for three-year-olds and over, and a good field is assured for the event. Among the horses from which the ,000 handicap field will be drawn are : Title Oak, Tetra Glass, Vandion, Woody Long, Fleeting Fire, Smoldering, Silver Wave, Black Alice, San Carlos, Breakaway, Tomboy, Thelma L., Wacket, Miss Angon, Commissioner Dee, Baltimore, Doc Connor, Flaherty, Lactarius, Malcolm, Agnes Wynn, Extreme, Raucona, Vinlin Roughneck, Stamp-dale, Beau Aspin, Ehdor, Margaret Cal, Elmer H., Merry Windsor, Finnish Sweep and By Product. Among the most prominent of the late arrivals here are O. L. Foster, who shipped thirteen head ; H. T. Palmer with fourteen, Ollie Tuggle with five, E. C. Anthony with three, Col. W. F. Knebelkamp with seven, George Jenkins with nine, O. L. Pons with fourteen, and Carl Drake with seven. Colonel Knebelkamp brought four two-year-olds in his shipment, all by the good stallion Midway. Two of the best are Red River and Red Likker. Palmer brought the good filly Breakaway with him and also Saratoga and a two-year-old named Early that he bought at St Johns. Fosters list was headed by the good three-year-old Title Oak that is entered in the ,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes here. He also brought two two-year-olds, Baby Wrack and Belles Title. Among the prominent riders here are Eddie Goodrich, leading rider of the Havana meeting: Lyman Logan, who finished second to Eddie ; Karl HorvathJ. Dyer, Jim Boucher, E. McLaughlin, J. Guerra, S. Holt, E. Ber-nier, H. Fisher, S. Jarvis, J. Roble, C. Stran-ski and R. Watson. Racing secretary Sidney S. Bender arrived here yesterday. He was in good health, despite his recent illness. Presiding judge Joseph M. McGraw also arrived here and said he was well pleased with the new chute.
