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Atlantic City Is Ready For Mondays Opening Over 600 Horses at Track With Big Influx Due From Maryland ATLANTIC CITY, Mays Landing, N. J., May 23. With close to 600 thoroughbreds already on hand and a sizeable contingent due from Maryland with the close of the Havre de Grace meeting next week, the Atlantic City Racing Association is. well prepared to launch its second season of racing at this improved seashore course on Monday at 2:30 p. m., Daylight Time. Since the track was officially opened to horsemen on April 28 there has been a steady influx of thoroughbreds and, despite several stretches of inclement weather, training has progressed steadily, indicating racing secretary Charles McLennan will experience little difficulty in programming sterling cards daily. While the racing during the inaugural meetings here last year was of high order, the sport during the coming 21-day span is expected to be of much higher caliber, because of the sizeable number of prominent stables patronizing the course for the first time. When the thoroughbred colony attains full capacity of approximately 1,000 by Monday, the group will include high-class performers from Maryland, New York, New England, Kentucky and New Jersey. Lending support to the belief that the sport about to begin will reach a new high as far as class is concerned is the unusually large star handicap and stakes performers prepared to perform in the five traditional stakes and liberal number of overnight features to be presented during the first meeting. The bumper crop of sprinters expected to start in Mondays 0,000 Atlantic City Inaugural Handicap, at six furlongs, is expected to set the pattern for the remainder of the rich stakes on the slate.
