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FAIRMOUNTS AU REVOIR CARD Attractive Program of Eight Races Scheduled Meeting to Close With a Financial Loss. COLLINSVILLE, 111., Oct. 14. Featured by the all-age Midwest Handicap that attracted a field of ten over six furlongs, the closing day program of the twenty-five day autumn meeting is one of the most attractive and well balanced of the long meeting. Of the eight races five are given over to horses that prefer a distance greater than a mile and the Al Lyons-Fox Theater Purse, the fourth and supporting attraction, drew a field of eighteen with two excluded. Due to several days of wintry weather, the management will close the meeting with a loss. Although the crowds have been as large as in previous years, the betting has been exceedingly light and only for the play in the daily double and the quinela, the latter being introduced at this meeting, the meeting probably would have gone much farther into the "red." With the exception of the opening week, there was an abundance of horses to fill the daily eight-race program, and although like other tracks, there was a lack of good horses for the condition races and handicaps, those from the claiming ranks have offered spirited and interesting contests. After the close here tomorrow, several carloads of horses will be shipped to Sportsman Park, while the majority will be given a short rest before departing for Jefferson Park and other winter racing points.
