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NEW YORK SEASON FINALE . Yorktown Handicap and Autumn Day Stakes Feature Closing1 Empire City Program. YONKERS, N. Y., Oct. 30. New Yorkers will see the final day of a racing season that has lasted since April when they sally forth Saturday afternoon to witness a dual stake program at Empire City, a day of sport that will be featured by the ,000 added York-tqwn Handicap for three-year-olds and upward and the ,500 added Autumn Day Stakes for two-year-old fillies. Both events have attracted excellent fields and the card will serve as a fitting climax to a racing year that has been the most successful since legalized bookmaking was revived Ii the Empire state in 1934 and one of the most profitable for all the tracks in a quarter of a century. The Empire City fall season, marking the, end of the second year that Empire has been operated under the aegis of James Butlers heirs, has been liberally patronized despite the fact that the weather during the latter j days has been raw and cold. Rain and light snow fell yesterday and indications were that inclement conditions would continue for the final afternoon. However, the largest crowd of the meeting is expected to bid the thoroughbreds farewell. They will not return to a New York course until the spring season of 1937 is inaugurated on Long Island. The Yorktown, at a mile and a furlong, has attracted an overnight field of eight. Mrs. John D. Hertz Count Arthur, one of the outstanding stake campaigners of the year, is far and away the top weight under 126 and is certain to rule a heavy choice The son of Reigh Count made his last start down at Kentuckys new course, Keeneland. where he was second to Memory Book, a Cnn 6 tI hdtbeate",in the Jockey Club Gold toiS latter stake was his most important score of the season. He came back nl at , atTrace, t0 wir the Continental Handicap Jamaica Previously such a horse as Action had beaten him twice, once by a nose and once by a length. He is reported fit and ready for his best in tomorrows test, having been freshened up since hisreturn from the blue grass. Earl Sande, formerly Americas premier rider, lias asked for space in the car for other horses bound for Florida, other than his own.
