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NARRAGANSETT OPENS TODAY Final Meeting of Season Beginning at Pawtucket Plant. Nine Stakes on Roster of Association All Traces of Hurricane Damage Removed. PAWTUCKET, R.. I., Oct. 12. Narragan-sett Park, having shaken the last remains of the hurricane debris out of its hair, will open the final meeting of the 1938 New England racing season tomorrow afternoon, a session that is slated to run through November 12, but which will probably be extended by at least two charity days. Nine stakes are on the roster with the 5,000 New England Futurity on October 29 holding the greatest importance. This two-year-old event is at a mile and seventy yards and is expected to draw many of the best juveniles in the land. The stake list includes the Rhode Island Handicap on the final day, which carries 0,000 in added money. Had this mile and an eighth event attracted Seabiscuit and War Admiral, the value would have been increased. However, the top-ranking champions of the turf will battle at Pimlico instead in a match race carrying forfeits. The other seven stakes on the card are all of ,000 value. As was the case at the last meeting secretary "Bob" Shelly is offering a chance to all divisions of horses and is offering stakes at distances that vary from six furlongs to a mile and a furlong. SATURDAYS STAKE. The first stake, which comes Saturday, is the Worcester Handicap at six furlongs, which will draw the best members of the sprint division on the grounds. Shelley was expected to announce weights for this contest late this afternoon. The following Wednesday, two-year-olds including Futurity hopefuls, will meet at six i furlongs in the Pawtucket. The first of j these stakes is down for decision on October 22. This is the mile and a sixteenth Autumn Handicap. Fillies and mares will be given a chance at a ,000 prize on the twenty-sixth in the New Continued on thirty-fourth page. NARRAGANSETT OPENS TODAY Continued from first page. England Handicap. This is a mile and a furlong affair and it will take a rugged lady to win the event. Three days later will be Futurity Day, the largest afternoon of the meeting. The Futurity will be followed by the mile and a sixteenth Aquidneck Handicap for the older division; the mile and a sixteenth Wannamoisett, a distance test for juveniles; the six furlongs Chopmist, an all age event and the Rhode Island on the final day of the regular meeting. The program is a well-balanced one, the barns of Narragansett filled with high class horses and even with Rhode Island in poor financial condition because of the hurricane and tidal wave damage, the session has been a success.
