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UNITED HUNTS RACING TODAY NEW YORK, N. Y., April 16. A program of seven races, offered by the United Hunts Racing Association, comprise the first days racing of the metropolitan season at Aqueduct tomorrow. The United Hunts, as in the past, conducts its two-day meeting before the opening of the regular season. The scene of the Hunts meeting last year was at Bowman Park, near Rye, N. Y., but this year the scene has been changed to Aqueduct. The change has been welcomed by horsemen and followers of the sport. Saturday brings- the Hunts meeting to a close, while no racing will be. held on Friday. The track and grounds at Aqueduct presented an animated scene today. Trainers who intend to race the opening day gave their prospective starters their final breezes and everything about the grounds was in readiness for the opening. The entries for this year attracted a generous number of horses and it was decided to add an extra race to take care of the overflow. The two-year-old maiden race, the Introductory Purse, which received a record-breaking entry list, was split and will be run in two sections. Forty nominations were received for this race and the event will be run as the first and seventh, with twenty probable starters in each dash.
