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UNITED HUNTS PROGRAM Six-Race Card Finale Of New York Racing Season. Whitney Gold Cup Attracts Crack Band T. Gwathmey Memorial Steeplechase Also Feature. NEW YORK, N. Y.f Nov. 7. The United Hunts Racing Association will bring the Metropolitan racing season to a close at Belmont Park this afternoon with the running -of a six-race program. The amateur association has arranged an attractive card, featured by the Temple Gwathmey Memorial Steeplechase under handicap conditions over the long two and a half-mile course. In previous years the Hunts opened and closed the season with four days racing, two in the spring and a like number in the fall. This year the spring meeting was abandoned and instead of a one-day summer meeting was conducted in June at Far Hills, Long Island. Steeplechase devotees have been catered to in a lavish fashion this fall and three of the races are scheduled for steeplechasers. The conditions of the different events are so fashioned that all manner of jumpers have an opportunity. The Gwathmey is for the top-notchers, the Cherry Malotte for three-year-olds and over below the first flight, and the Weld Steeple-chase is for hunters to be ridden by ama- -teur riders. The flat races comprise two distance, events and one sprint. The meeting will in- troduce a new fixture to New Yorkers, the first running of the Whitney Gold Cup Handicap, for three-year-olds and over. This race is over the long, gruelling mile and a half distance with all entrance and starting fees to the winner. In addition, a gold cup will be presented to the winner. This cup is a gift of John Hay Whitney, an ardent devotee of distance racing for thoroughbreds. This race, the founders believe, will grow into one of the outstanding fall fixtures and rank in interest with horsemen, as does the Gwathmey Steeplechase with the followers of that branch of the sport. The officials of the United Hunts have for this fall inaugurated a new and startling departure in the admission charge. Encouraged by the success of the reduced admission for the charity day racing conducted at Belmont Park last spring, badges have been priced at .20 for general admission and .85 for the enclosure. This reduction, it is believed, will prove a popular one and result in a decided increase in attendance. These prices include the government tax. All hopes for a fast track were abandoned when rain, which began late Sunday evening, continued throughout the night and left the track in a sloppy condition, which will greatly favor the mudlarks. The footing has a hard bottom and the first act of track superintendent Pels was to close the main track to morning gallops. Sunday morning saw recent arrivals from Pimlico, which were schooled through the field, while several moves for flat runners were noticed on the main track. The United Hunts has been unfortunate in the matter of weather for many years. During the spring meeting cold and windy weather prevailed and then in the fall rain interfered with the running of the program. - . . .
