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INAUGURAL AT EMPIRE TODAY Yonkers Course to Conclude Highly Successful New York Season. He Did Top Weight Under 126 Pounds for New Rochelle Handicap, Opening Day Feature. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 15. With the sport of Monday afternoon, the New York racing scene changes to the Yonkers course of the Empire City Racing Association. The season has come to its final two weeks and it has been a thoroughly successful racing year from the beginning at Jamaica last April. The feature event for the opening of the Empire City meeting is the New Rochelle Handicap, a dash of five and three-quarter furlongs, to which ,500 is added. Top weight for the running is Arnold Hangers He Did, recent winner of the Interborough Handicap at Jamaica. In that running the son of Victorian and Dinah Did took up 121 pounds and for the New Rochelle his weight is 126 pounds. THE FIGHTER AND LIBERTY FLIGHT. Second in the weights is W. F. Morgans The Fighter, which ran a disappointing race in the Interborough when he sulked and finished last, after being a popular choice for the running. In this Empire City opening feature he is handicapped at 122 pounds, and throwing out his last race he must be accorded a royal chance to win. The Fighter will have a running mate in Liberty Flight, handicapped at 117 pounds. This three-year-old is particularly suited at the distance and is sure to go well. The Maemere Farm Stable is represented by Go Home, under 114 pounds, and Walter Carter has rather a nice candidate in Clp-dition, one that is in under 115 pounds. The other eligible to accept the weights is Sun-sun, that races for the King Ranch. He is a lightweight that has been showing well in recent trials.
