New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-09

Thoroushbred racing dates. concerning
which there has been so much speculation,
-cre formally allotted for the coming sea-
ron af = meeting OF the stewards Of the
3eckey Club in the Windsor Arcade yester-
day This meeting followed a conference
OF the owners Of the various tracks, during
which a tentative schedule was arranged.
Tie season will open at Aqueduct on
April Is. which is the earliest date possible
under the law. and tho curtain viii be rUns
down at the same track on November Is
The meetings follow in much the same
order as they did in 1898 before the passage
of the ASneH Hart Law. but the Brighton
Beach Racing Association. which did not
conduct a meeting last year. has been salts
fed with one meeting of fourteen days in
July. while the Empire City Racing Asso-
citation viii hold a single meeting Of only
twelve days - its track. near Yonkers,
from July p 10 August 5
The Saratoga Racing Association. which
= asked for the fun month Of August for its
meeting at Saratoga Springs was allotted
twenty-one days The meeting will begin
on Thursday. August /. and run to August
=. which includes four Saturdays.
The Westchester Racing Association viii
conduct two meetings at Belmont Park, one
q fifteen days IN the spring. beginning on
May u. and the other Of twelve days IN
the fail, beginning Oh September IS. This
makes twenty-seven days all told, and in
cludes one holiday. Memorial Day, and five
Saturdays
The Brooklyn Jockey Club gets twenty
seven days. and viii hold its usual spring
and fan meetings at iiravesen6. 1t only
gets four Saturdays, however. and no Holt
days. The spring meeting viii begin on
Tuesday. May q. when the Brooklyn Han
dicap, at one mile and a quarter, viii be
run
The ConeI Island Jockey club fares par
ticularly wei with two hoiidays-July and
Labor Day-and five Saturdays. The Subur-
han Handicap will be run on the opening
Gay Of the spring meeting. on June i.
which falls On Friday. and the Realization
Stakes on July 4 The fall meeting viii be
gin on Monday. August q. following the
wind-up at Saratoga Springs. when, accord
inc TO usual custom. the Futurity the rich
est two ear-oId fixture Of the season, viii
he decided. Twenty-seven days have been
allotted in all fifteen in the spring and
twelve IN the fall.
Tnc Queens County Jockey Club, which
races at Acqueduct. and the Metropolitan
Jockey Club, which holds its meetings at
Jamaica Jared the best, so far as the num-
her OF days go. with tweuty-eight each
Twelve days i'm the spring and sixteen days
81 the fall The Metropolitan Jockey Club
gets Columbus Day and four Saturdays
and the Queens County Jockey Club gets
Election Day and five Saturdays. Both as
sociatioHs viii race part Of the time IN
the spring in conflict with the meeting Of
The MARYLAND Jockey Club, at Pimlico. out
in all praha hlity the fall meeting at PIN
li1o viii be held following the close Of the
season here, on November Is IN which case
4 conflict % dates iii The fall Will be
avoided.
No meetings were held at Acqueduct and
jamaica last spring. and the season opened
~ Belmont Park on May 3. Up TO the mid
summer meeting at Workers, the racing
was confined 10 three and four days a
week. II present plans are carried out, the
various ASSOCIATIONS will race every week
ksy this year, ana thus make use Of the
fun time.
August Belmont, chairman Of the Jockey
Cub presided at the meeting OF The stew
ards Yesterday. The others present were
SCHUYLER /. Parsons, +. r. Hitchcock and
Andrew Miller.