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NEW YORK RACING DATES i Schedule Announced Late Thursday Provides for Longer Season for Five Major Tracks. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 9. The metropolitan racing of 1939 will be of half a dozen days longer duration than during the past season, according to the schedule drawn up by representatives of the five major tracks in a conference with The Jockey Club stewards yesterday afternoon at the Park Avenue offices of the latter organization. It needs only the approval of the state racing commission, but this in the past has been only a routine matter and should be again, since all the associations are in accord as to the dates. In addition to the additional days selected for the tracks on the regular swing of the circuit, the United Hunts will hold forth for two days at Belmont Park in November, instead of one, as has been the recent custom. Jamaica, which opens the season on April 15, with the usual six furlongs Paumonok Handicap, is one of the two tracks to benefit through the extension. It will receive twenty-two days in the spring instead of nineteen as was the case this year. Empire City is the other one to have the same increase, giving it a full run of four weeks in July instead of the twenty-one it had in 1938. For the first time since the passing of the anti-racing bills which brought a temporary cessation of the sport in the state the season will be run into November next year, with Empire City closing on the fourth and running against Pimlico for four days. That late final is expected to improve the card for the United Hunts on Election Day the following Tuesday. The amateur organization will give its second afternoon of racing on Armistice Day, which falls on Saturday, November 11. Belmont Park, with thirty-nine days for its two meetings, is given the most liberal date award of all, but only by a slight margin. This is as it should be, as that is by far the most important of the four tracks j which are situated just outside the city. Aqueduct will have thirty-six days, and Empire City draws a similar allotment, with Jamaica receiving thirty-four and Saratoga 1 the usual thirty, or five full weeks of up-1 state racing.
