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iiB flatty: , 1 i . Empire Citys Twenty -Four -Day Meeting Gets Under Way Today j c j p " g a h s j. a a n a a j, g P f a a p g o f c s f c a t "i s s t s a 1 ? s Buthr Handicap Features t Army -Navy Card on July 4 --Run Seven Races Daily YONKERS, N. Y., June 27. With the Aqueduct meeting of the Queens County Jockey Club coming to "a conclusion today with a big. Army-Navy Day program, the thoroughbred sport moved from Long Island to WestchesW where the Empire City Racing Association will carry on until July 25 and the trek to Saratoga Springs. With the exhibition of the United Hunts Racing at Piping Rock, Saturday, July 4, the horses will not be back on Long Island until the last day of August where the fall season of Metropolitan Racing begins with return" to Queens County Jockey Club course. For the opening day at the track on the hilltop, where George H. Bull will be host, the card is an excellent one even though devoid of any stake feature. "Jack" Campbell has offered various chances for the selling platers in this initial program but the fields are nicely balanced and the prospect for good contests could hardly be better. The feature is The Pebbles Purse, dash of five and three-quarter furlongs, named after a thoroughbred that brought full measure of fame to the silks of the late James Butler. This dash is confined to the three-year-olds and the five engaged promise an excellent contest. Routers in Secondary Attraction Second in importance on the card is fashioned under claiming conditions and mile and a sixteenth. This brings out platers of the better sort and each one feas shown a present fitness that assures plenty of competition. Two of the offerings are for two-year-olds and one of those is a dash for maiden fillies. There is a second sprint of five and three-quarter furlongs for three-year-olds of the selling plater division and the seven-race program is rounded out with two races over the mile and a sixteenth distance. With the setting back of post time for the first race to 2:30 oclock from the 1:45 post time at Aqueduct, the program of seven races will be the rule for the Hilltop sport and it will all work" out to bring post time for the final event approximately the same as has been the rule with the programs of eight races that have prevailed with the jumping events a part of the fare at Belmont Park arid Aqueduct. . It is not until Saturday, and the glorious Fourth, which come together, that the Empire City Association comes to its first stake event, that is the butler Handicap, greatest race of the meeting and endowed GEORGE BULL President of the Empire City Racing Association. with 0,000 as was the Suburban and the Brooklyn. This is a gallop of a mile and three sixteenths, the nearest distance comfortably possible to a mile and a, quarter at Empire City. To start over the greater distance would mean starting on the stretch turn. For the Butler the champion, Whirlaway, is expected to make an appearance. He and his stablemate, the three-year-old Col. Teddy, have been held over from the Arlington Park shipment for their engagements at George Bulls oval. Col. Teddy is Ben Jones hope for the Empire City Handicap which is down for decision the second Saturday of the meeting. Of these important fixtures, the Empire City Handicap, of 5,000 added, attracts the best horses in training. For the Butler the list of eligibles is almost a counterpart of the nominations that were made for the Suburban and the Brooklyn and, while Market Wise has been on the sidelines, since the Suburban running, wien he whipped Whirlaway, there is still a hope that George Carroll may be able to bring him back next Saturday.
