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j j I ] | | ! j i j I j i j i NARRAGANSETTS BIG COLONY One Thousand Horses Now Stabled at Pawtucket Course — Ready for Inaugural Next Saturday. PAWTUCKET, R. I., April 30.— With more than 1,000 horses already installed at Narra-gansett Park and others arriving by the score hourly, Walter E. OHaras record-shattering race track was prepared today for its opening Saturday, with another New England mark wiped out. Narragansett will open with more thoroughbred racers on the scene than have ever before been quartered by any New England race track. Nearly fifty prominent stables rolled into the grounds today, bringing with them numerous nominees for the ten big stakes to be run off during the nineteen-day meeting, which will open the racing season in this section. Large additional shipments from California, Maryland, Texas, New York and Kentucky were reported by railroad officials to be due to reach Pawtucket within the next twenty-four hours. Included in the California shipment is the crack string owned by Cleaveland Putnam and led by Ladysman, nominated for Saturdays handicap. From Kentucky comes a string of four owned and trained by J. T. Taylor and led by the sensational two-year-old filly Planetoid, winner of the Lassies Purse at Church-| ill Downs, Wednesday. This youngster traveled the four and one-half furlongs in :53, within three-fifths of a track record. It was Planetoids second start and second victory. Her first race was won by eight lengths. Because many horsemen shipped in with-j out first obtaining reservations, the riding clubs and farmers in the vicinity of Paw-j tucket are jammed with the overflow of horses from the Narragansett barns. And the end of the equine "march on Narragan-! sett" is not yet in sight. *— —
