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RIVER DOWNS OPENING First Meeting Over Revamped Coney Island Course Begins Today. Plenty of Good Horses Available for Twenty-One or More Days of Racing. - - f CIICINNATI, Ohio, Sept 30. Bold Lever Horace C. Rumages sparkling on of Black Toney, and Exhibit, which I ha, bden very successful under the col-j ors cf Mrs. C. H. Howard, California pa-! tro: will be opposed by six others in tl I-augural Handicap, feature of Riv-j er f wns opening program Thursday, j Thn capable pair of sprinters will joliouUer the top burden of 118 pounds j each. jl They were slated to have met in the ! Campau Handicap under 123 pounds last Saturday, but a .change in track co::i .ons caused their withdrawals. ! P.nc Fellow, locally-owned sprinter, I con-- next under 109 pounds and then i r;l!o-v.; Reminiscent, winner of two raes it Detroit, under 108 pounds. i T.-.e rield in order of post position, I we r,hts and probable jockeys follows: j rr Horse. Wt. Jockey. J 1 l!o!.l Lover 118.... E. Rodriguez 1 2 Kxhihit 118 T. Meloche I 3 Odd Star 105 W. llanka j 4 Dora Itlay 100 II. Louman J 5 Prince Fellow.. .109 G. Fowler S 0 Kaymond 103 M. Fallon I 7 Reminiscent ....108 J. Burke j 8 Zevson 101 II. Manifold J i .... - t INCINNATI, Ohio, Sept 30. River D wns, home of the newly organized River DrT3 Racing Association, which took over t ic rjd Coney Island plant, opens its 1936 -s.ison Thursday afternoon. MODERN IX EVERY RESPECT. Modernized in nearly every respect and bcaat ficd until it is one of the most attractive courses in the country, the Hamilton C Junt? track will be host for twenty-one or irore days of sport With a stakes program f.l a? w 11 vie with those offered at the major tiacics and a tentative match race arranged b-Uvc: , Brownell Combs renowned Myrtle-v C2d and Victor Emanuels Miss Merriment, j-Sfrsrs f this vicinity should witness the meat f. kling racing to have been enjoyed at th ri -er side course since the inaugural meeirg r.t old Coney Island. In sdaition to several hundred thoroughbreds, which came from Detroit, other performers have arrived from Chicago, Kentucky and other points. Quartered here are forty or more handicap performers while the two-year-old brigade is well fortified and there are a great number of routers on hand to fill engagements in the long distance races, which always have been popular in Vai section. OFFICIAL FAMILY. The official family is headed by judge Joseph A. Murphy, one of the most widely known and popular officials in the country. Through his efforts the sport was revived in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Texas and Michigan. As director of racing, the same capacity in which he serves here, judge Murphy offeied the citizens of Cleveland the first successful meeting to be held at Thistle Down in years. The position of racing secretary is held by Charles F. Henry, who was an assistant to judge Martin Nathanson, who served as rac- , ing -secretary at the inaugural meeting at Coney Island. The starting will be entrusted to George R. Wingfield, a native of Covington, Ky., who dispatches the fields at Tropi- 1 cal Park,, Hawthorne, Detroit and Thistle i Down. Four stakes, each of which carries ,500 in added money, will be offered during the If twenty-one days, and in the event the meet-rr :3 extended additional features will be card for closing day. Th first of the stakes, the Western Hills landicap, for three-year-olds and over, at xH! mile and a sixteenth, will be offered iturday. The tentative match race is set f.Jt next Thursday, October 8, while the fol- Continued on thiiy-fourth pagej
