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COLUMBUS INAUGURAL TODAY Beulah Park Ready for Opening Pro ¬ gram With Handicap Field Larger Than Expected COLUMBUS Ohio May 11 Eeulah Park is all set for Saturdays opening of its nine ¬ teenday spring meeting Thursdays rain for which the entire middle west was pray ¬ ing was all that was needed to put the track in firstclass condition providing of Ciourse a harder rain does not fall on the ewe of the opening to make the going diffi ¬ cult for some of the fast track horses that are entered for Saturdays races racesThe The Inaugural Handicap Friday morning had attracted a larger field than secretary Held had expected and if track conditions are favorable there is a good chance that a limit field will go to the post This race is over six furlongs and will be run out of the chute The proposed new starting gate will not be in operation during the early stages of the meeting as arrange ¬ ments for its completion were not perfected in time Six furlongs races are started from the permanent gate in the chute chuteSeveral Several of the best horses racing on half mile tracks were named for the Inaugural F E Turner nominated Miss Mascara the Flight of Time filly which was a recent win ¬ ner at Hamilton and Tollie Young One of the pair will start Tollie Young Thursday morning turned in one of the fastest half mile workouts shown here J R Schuster named Two Brooms a threeyearold colt which won the Cincinnati Handicap at Hamilton J F ONeils Fogarty which was eligible for the Kentucky Derby up to the day of the race is among the probable starters This Altawood threeyearold ran a good race at Churchill Downs when he was a fast finishing third to Wise Daughter and Likewise beating out such sprinters as Mr James Bien Fait and Cactus Rose RoseThe The King a winner at Hialeah Diaquri Careful Kitty Flag Wave Marabou Whizz ¬ ing D Pompeia Masked Prince and Har ¬ lem were among the original nominations nominationsLandscape Landscape gardeners were at work Thurs ¬ day and Friday beautifying the infield and other parts of the grounds and the plant took on an appearance quite apart from that of the average halfmile track The radio is being used extensively to advertise the opening and there will be a daily broadcast from the track A B Miller one of the energetic officers of the Beulah Park Jockey Club reiterated in a broadcast the inten ¬ tion of the association to enlarge the track in time for the fall opening openingThe The meeting wHl be presided over by Wil ¬ liam Dangman with president and general manager H D Shepard and Will R Hamil ¬ ton as his associates in the stewards stand standWith With more than 300 horses on the grounds several additional shipments were reported in Friday from Churchill Downs and Ham ¬ ilton Six van loads came in from Louis ¬ ville
