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Special Littleton Day Events at Centennial . Burro Race, With Businessmen as Jockeys, to Precede Opening Event LITTLETON, Colo., June 10. Special Littleton Day events, featuring a burro race with Littleton businessmen as jockeys, were announced Wednesday for the July 2 opening of Centennial Race Tracks 50-day , summer season. Plans for the program, which will precede the first race at 1:30 p. m., -were outlined by Forrest Hammes of Littleton Chamber of Commerce as follows: 1. A parade and caravan at 12 noon from downtown Littleton past the grandstand to a special parking area. Most stores will close from noon to 3 p. m. for the occasion. 2. Mounted drill by the mounted cuad-rille of the Little Britches Youth Club. 3. The burro race. Jockeys will be Charles B Grout, banker and chamber president; Houstoun Warig, editor of the Littleton Independent; Jack Thomas, local utilities manager; Vera Bergman and Hammes, both Littleton merchants. Features of Centennials first-day card will be the ,000 Littleton Inaugural Speed Handicap at five furlongs, the Littleton Chamber of Commerce Purse and Littleton Independent Purse. Meanwhile, Centennial officials pushed preparations for the opening after reaching an agreement on thoroughbred purses last week end with the Rocky Mountain division of-the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association. The approved purse schedule calls for distribution of 75,000 to thoroughbreds, plus purse bonuses equal to 47 per cent of the tracks share of the pari-mutuel handle if it exceeds 0,600,000 for the season. There will be a minimum of 425 thoroughbred t races at the meeting, same number as last year, in addition to at least one quarter horse race daily. Minimum purse for the thoroughbreds will be ,000.
