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MARKING TIE AT FAIR PARK Dallas Track in Condition and Ready for Inaugural Day. Twenty-One Day Meeting Scheduled to Open on April 25 Plenty of Racing Material Assured. 4 DALLAS, Texas, April 6. While most local racing patrons are centering their attention on the present Arlington Downs meeting, Julius G. Reeder, general manager of Fair Park, is busy making arrangements for the opening of the twenty-one day spring meeting on April 25. According to Reeder, Fair Park is in excellent condition and preparations are so far advanced that he could open the meeting on the shortest possible notice. Many new stables will be -at Fair Park this season and the best racing in the history of the three-quarter mile track is expected to draw even greater crowds than the two previous meetings. Prominent stables racing at Arlington Downs are expected to move over after that meeting and among the leading owners to make applications for the coming season are W. C. Weant, who will have thirty-two head, chief of which is Prince Fox; W. C. Reichert, his stable headed by the Texas-bred veteran, My Dandy; Leo J. Marks, with seven, including the good sprinter, Marooned; R.C.Thatcher, E. Haughton, B. Creech, M. W. Buck, Corsi-cana Stable, E. R. Fain, H. C. Rumage, C. N. Finch, Tom Flippen, B. Hernandez, Eskay Stable, Bedford Stock Farm, Mrs. Floyd West, J. L. Wilson, Edward McCuan, E. E. Major, J. Oros, B. Parke, Cisco Stable, R. Pollard, J. H. Tate, R. N. Vestal and R. T. Watts. In addition to the stables now racing at Arlington Downs there are many others at Fair Park, now resting, and from the more than 400 horses now quartered here, Fair Parks 1,000 stalls will be exhausted. Many applications have already been returned to horsemen wishing to race here and general manager Reeder would like to take care of them, but it is impossible to handle more than 700 horses. Condition books for the first seven days of the meeting were placed in the hands of horsemen Saturday and the opening day program of eight races should be a gala event in Fair Park racing history. The feature race for the first day is the State Fair of Texas Handicap, a sprint over the George course for three-year-olds and upward. It carries ,500 in added money. The supporting race is the fourth, an allowance race for three-year-olds over the George course. Three-year-olds are scheduled to meet at a mile in the first race and the second is for three-year-olds and upward at six furlongs. The third race will be turned over to two-year-old maidens at four and one-half furlongs and the sixth is a high class claiming race for three-year-olds and upward. The race is expected to draw some high class claiming performers. The only race at seven furlongs will be run as the seventh and the eighth is at a mile and a furlong. The names of the officials for the meeting have been presented to the Texas Racing Commission for confirmation and will be announced as soon as the commission approves them.
