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FINAL WEEK AT R0CK1NHCAM Discovery Makes Eastern Comeback Saturday in 0,000 Race. - Salem Meeting Is Brilliant Success With Mutuel Handle Averaging 00,000 Daily Closing Features. SALEM, N. H., June 9 The best attractions of the spring meeting of the New Hampshire Jockey Club at Rockingham Park have been reserved for the closing week, which was launched here today. High-class racing, which has been the rule rather than the exception, has resulted in fwo weeks of amazing achievement for the new regime at the Salem track and today finds the directorate assured of success and looking toward the future. That New England racegoers are solidly behind the new controlling group at pic; turesque Rockingham is seen definitely in the thousands which throng the track daily and the mutuels department record, which shows an average daily handle of well-nigh 00,000. The most attractive feature of the closing week is, of course, the Rockingham Park Handicap, 0,000 added, over a mile and one-eighth, in which Alfred Gwynne Vander-bilts great campaigner Discovery makes his return to the racing wars. Away since Santa Anita, Discovery has been prepped at Belmont, and his recent mile trial in 1:35 indicates that the son of Display Ariadne is fit and ready to go. Discovery is one of a star-studded list which has been nominated for Saturdays r closing-day feature. Others in the total of forty-two nominees include Elwood Sachsenmaiers Roman Soldier, winner of the Decoration Day Handicap; John Hay Whitneys Singing Wood, disappointing in his fwo New England appearances here, and Whopper, giant campaigner of the string.of Hal Price Headley. The strings of. John Hay Whitney, C. V. Whitney, William Woodwards Belair Stud, Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable, the Araho Stable and many other leading owners are represented. The mid-week feature is to be the Juvenile Handicap, a five furlongs dash for the high-class two-year-olds quartered on the grounds.
