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BAINBRIDGE OPENS TODAY » Outlook Favorable for a Successful Thirteen-Day Meeting. ♦ Inaugural Card of Eight Races Promises Good Sport — Plenty of Horses and Good Riders Available. GEAUGA LAKE, Ohio, July 13.— Under most promising conditions, the summer meeting of the Bainbridge Breeders and Racing Association will get under way here Saturday at beautiful Bainbridge Park. This session will be the first to be held at the Geauga Lake course under the supervision of the Ohio State Racing Commission and is scheduled to run only thirteen days. Most of the officials who will have charge of the racing were on the scene this morning making preparations for the opening and the picturesque plant was looking at its best. Although the track late Friday afternoon was dry and fast, the weather was hot and sultry and the sky was well clouded at intervals, threatening rain. The weather man promises occasional showers for Saturday. An excellent card has been prepared for the initial days sport, featured by the Bainbridge Inaugural Handicap, a dash of six furlongs, which will be run as the fifth event. A field of seventeen accepted the weights, two of which, Otterrop and Charming Sir, are coupled as the S. J. Molay entry. Bonsoir was assigned the post of honor, top weight of 121 pounds and on the strength of fast, private trials and public form displayed is likely to be most fancied. That there is an abundance of racing material quartered here is best evidenced by the fact that all of the eight races on Saturdays card filled to the limit and seventy-four horses were excused, which will form the preferred list. Over six hundred horses are registered with racing secretary Leigh, the overflow being forced to secure accommodations at Thistle Down Park. The majority of the stables quartered here came from Fair-mount Park, Latonia, Dayton and Kansas City. From the western Missouri course, G. F. Jenkins brought seven performers. I. S. Shafer came in Friday from Mount Royal Park at Montreal. T. J. DeBord wired from Rockingham Park for sixteen stalls. He will be accommodated and his string is due to arrive Monday from the eastern track. A total of forty jockeys are on the scene ready to accept mounts, among them Joe Sylvester, who came from Montreal. Many of the riders here are new to Cleveland turf patrons, including P. Martinez, under contract to G. F. Jenkins; F. A. Smith, who is with H. O. Simmons, and H. Mansfield under contract to E. B. Shipp, who rode with much success at Fairmount Park. Eugene Lutz will introduce a new apprentice here in J. Matthews, who gives promise of rapid development. He is a native of Cleveland. D. Sykes and D. Edwards are two other newcomers. J. W. Frye. R. Cheatham, J. Dyer and R. Tilden are others who will perform at this meeting who are favorably known. — *
