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HAMILTON INAUGURAL TODAY Everything in Readiness for Seven-Day Meeting at One of Canadas Most Popular Tracks. HAMILTON, Ont., June 23.— The beautiful Hamilton Jockey Club opens today for its first seven-day meeting of the Canadian summer season. The Hamilton Club, one of the most picturesque of the Canadian courses, is all in readiness for Saturdays inauguration. A splendid weeks program has been mapped out by racing secretary P. C. Gal-liger, with numerous features spread over the forty-nine events. The outstanding offering of the seven days will be the running of the Mclntyre and Louden Memorial Handicap, at the distance of one mile and one-sixteenth, fashioned for three-year-olds and upward, the bona fide property of owners residing in Canada, and will be decided on Wednesday. June 28, and carry an added value of ,000. «*M| The opening day will be headlined with the running of the Hamilton Spectator Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward foaled in the Dominion, at six furlongs, the value of which is ,000. The Monday attraction, the Brookwood Handicap, carries the value of 00. The Hamilton Nursery, for juveniles, will be decided on Thursday, June 29, at the five furlongs distance and under allowances conditions, and will bring together the best of the years home-bred youngsters. The Appas Tappas Handicap, Saturday, July 1, feature, is at one mile and a sixteenth, for a purse of ,000, with the Dominion Day Handicap also sharing top honors. A race over the turf course will be an attraction scheduled to be run each day of the meeting.
