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ROCKINGHAM MEETING ThirtyOne Days Racing to Begin BeginToday Today Under Favorable Auspices High Class Field to Contest for 10000 Granite State Handicap HandicapHeadliner Headliner of Opening Card SALEM N H June 22 This staid little New Hampshire hamlet today is the mecca of racing devotees from all parts of the At ¬ lantic seaboard From all over the East honkhonking like gray Canadian geese the automobiles are wending their way over the roads winding like ribbons over the New England hillsides that converge on this little town nearby where the beautiful Rocking ham race course lies in the lap of the New Hampshire hills just fortyfive minutes from Boston For tomorrow the thirtyone day meeting of the New Hampshire Breeders Association will be inaugurated under even more favorable auspices than marked the beginning of last years most successful rac ¬ ing in this section of the country countryBy By the time race track specials start roll Ing in from North Station Boston direct to the track side thousands of spectators prob ¬ ably will be on hand and by the time the field of fifteen thoroughbreds that will carry the silks of some of the most famous racing stables in the country go to the post in the Granite State Handicap 10000 added the feature event of opening day it is expected that 25000 or more people will be thronging the grandstand clubhouse and green stretch of lawns that command a fine view of the wooded New Hampshire hills hillsQUALITY QUALITY PREDOMINATES PREDOMINATESThe The field for the Granite State Handicap includes Mr Khayyam the brown son of Omar Khayyam Alice Foster which carried the light blue with dark blue collar sash cuffs and cap of the Catawba Stable to victory in the Metropolitan Handicap Springsteel Sylvester W Labrots great roan gelding which won the Miami Beach Handi ¬ cap this year and ran second to the great Equipoise in the Philadelphia Handicap and finished just outside the money in the Su ¬ burban Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys Roustabout winner of the Grand Union at Saratoga Col E R Bradleys Tick On Sunador Willis Sharpe Kilmers great son of Sun Briar Piety a half sister of the great Equipoise and daughter of Pennant fresh from Detroit where she carried the colors of A A Baroni to several victories and William P Gallaghers recently acquired Star Fire favorite of the Rockingham rail birds birdsMr Mr Khayyam will carry the top weight of 121 pounds and will concede two pounds to Tick On W S Kilmers Dark Winter coupled with Sunador will carry 111 J Y W Martins Dark Hope and Piety 110 Springsteel Sunador and Roustabout all have a fourteenpound pull in the weights for they have been assigned 107 pounds poundsSUPPLEMENTARY SUPPLEMENTARY FEATURE FEATUREThe The Granite State Handicap will be over the mile and a sixteenth route and with its 10000 added is a prize well worth winning For the sprinters a cofeature has been ar ¬ ranged in the Roseben Handicap at five fur ¬ longs with such speedy ones as Flying Sailor Dark Hope Universe Night Sprite Desert Call Black Hand Broad Lights My Dandy High Glee Khamseen Star Porter Character Pana Franka Wilrob and Chinese Empress among the prospective contestants contestantsEight Eight races for purses totaling 16400 are included in the opening day program No purse will be less than 800 Racing will start daily at 230 p m daylight saving time fifteen minutes later than last year yearAmong Among the innovations to be introduced tomorrow is the new 250000 totalisator the machine with the human brain which will be used in connection with the parimutuel system of wagering that prevails in New Hampshire The big board with its fifty miles of wires and its 24000 incandescent lights is one of the wonders of the machine age ageThrough Through the totalisator the bettors will be at all times kept informed as to the exact amount of money in the pool the fluctuating odds and hence the exact value of their in ¬ vestment
