Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-09
Jockey Club AHots Spring and
Fall Dates at Benning.
EMPIRE. TRACK SHUT OUT
Oxnard Dinner Stakes Has Fine List
of Subscribers.
EARLY BETTING ON HANDICAPS
Good Bowling Battles Last Night
Cutler Beat Cline at Billiards
Foot Ball at Harvard.
EARLY BETTING ON HANDICAPs

NEW YORK. February 9.-The Jockey
| Club stewards met yesterday and after a
protracted session decided on the racing
dates for the season. The Empire City
| track was not granted meeting. The days
| of racing and the allotment to the various
| race courses in this state are as follows:
Aqueduct from April 16 to 20 10 days..
Jamaica, April q to May 8 I'll days..
Belmont Park, May 10 to 10 g days..
Gravesend, May p to 26 C days..
Belmont Park. May % to June 8 e days..
Gravesend, June to 20 az days..
Sheepshead Bay, June p to July 13 Q7
days..
Brighton Beach, July IL to August (22
days..
Saratoga. August s to 81 (23 days..
Sheepshead Bay. September / to Is Q3
days..
Gravesend, September II to 30 az days..
Brighton Beach, October / to (6 days..
Belmont Park October s to 20 az days..
Jamaica, October % to November az
days..
Aqueduct November to 10 III days..
Washing ton Jockey Club, Monday March
26, to Saturday April IA, spring meeting
Us days.; Friday, November 16, to Satur-
day, December l. autumn meeting GA days..
The racing dates are practically the same
as last season, with one exception. The
Jamaica track lost one day, which the
Aqueduct track gained. The Belmont Park
track splits up its early spring meeting with
the Gravesend course. This move was made
In order to have the longest meeting when
the weather will probably be mild. BY this
change the dates are prolonged, so that the
Brighton Beach meeting is pushed back to
July H.
All the big courses, such as Belmont Park.
Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay We're al
lotted the big holidays.
Oxnard Dinner Stakes.
Clerk of the Course Crickmore gives the
details of tie new Oxnard dinner stakes. to
be run at Benning this spring. The entries
closed February /, with fifteen subscribers.
The conditions of the stakes are as follows:
For two-year-olds, foals of 1904. to be run
at the spring meeting of the Washington
Jockey Club of the District of Columbia, at
Benning, d. c., at ten pounds under the
scale BY Observation-Disclosures to fifteen
subscribers-at $25 each, play or pay. to the
winner. The Washington Jockey Club 10
add 81 900. of which $3.50 to the second, $1o0
to the third. Subscriptions to close on or
before February l. 1906. Subscribers to
name two horses-that have never started
on or before March /, 1906, their own prop
erty, or, the property of other persons, pro-
v;ded that the lease or sale with contin-
gency shall have been duly registered at the
Office of the Jockey Club In the city OF
New York, as by Rule SO. OF the two
horses named, only one to the post, the
name of which shall be reported to the
clerk of the course at Bennfng, d. c., not
later than II m. of the day announced
for the race to be run. Four and half
furongs old course.
Subscribers.
Perry Belmont, Columbia Stable, II.
Rozier Duany. w. C. Eustis. George HELEN,
F. r. Hitchcock, George Howard James
Kerr Pierre Lorliard E. A. Mitchell,
Robert Neville. III. T. Oxnard. II. A Sey-
mour, j. p Story, jr., and Horace Westcott.