New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
TO BEGIN
AT BELMONT PARK
Twenty Day Meeting to
Open at the Big Track
on Tuesday.

Another season OF racing will open at
Belmont Park on Tuesday Then for
twenty days the Westchester Racing Asso-
citation will hold sway with its spring
meeting.
The attendance and enthusiasm at the
recent amateur meetings was only fore
cast of the interest that will be the pcr-
ton Of the regular season. The love Of
racing is strong in the New York man
and woman, and the season Of 1914 seems
bright in promise for the lovers of the
thoroughbred
Last year the cynics said that racing
would never again come into It's own In
this state, but what happened during the
thirty days at Belmont Park last year
and the month at Saratoga is history.
Most Of the old fixtures were revived, ana
the owners and the members Of the Jockey
Club that stuck TO the ship through It's
most turbulent days are now beginning to
see their efforts rewarded.
This year there will be racing every day
from May % to September in or near
New York. as Saratoga has long been
considered a part Of the metropolitan cir
cult. Many Of the old favorites and lot
Of new ones have been recalled from the
tracks of England and the Continent, ana
the old well known colors will be seen
again, but worn by younger riders
There are several hundred horses at
Belmont Park now, and stabling for more
than 500 has been engaged.
The horses from Pimlico and Kentucky
will come North as soon as the meeting
closes there and swell the throng, and
that will mean that there will be more
than n thousand for the racing secretary
to draw on during the course OF the meet
ing.
Not one OF the old turf classics of the
Eastern tracks that will be decided dur
ing the summer should lack a goodly
field.
OF course, the opening day attraction
will be the Metropolitan Handicap. be
sides this the New York Steeplechase will
be run, and the thousands that VIII
throng the grandstand and the clubhouse
lawn are sure to see racing that will
long be remembered. The flower of the
fat and over the jumps will face the
starters In these two fixtures
The Withers. the Amateur Cup and the
International Steeplechase are the banner
attractions for May 80. Memorial Day.
And from then on every day there will
be something of more than usual interest
to bring the crowd out TO the most attrac-
tive race course in America.
The schedule of the various stakes fol-
lows:
MAY 26.-The New York Steeplechase.
with thirty-one entries, and the Metropoli-
tan Handicap, with siXty-nine entries.
May 27.--The Juvenile, with one hundred
and twelve entries.
May 2S.-The Ladies Handicap. with
forty-five entries.
MAY SO.--The Withers, with forty-eight
entries: the Amateur Cup, with forty,
eight entries, and the International
Steeplechase. with thirty-three entries.
June 1.-The Bouquet, with sixty-eight
entries.
June 4-Owners' Fund Stakes. the
Iarchmont. with forty-eight entries.
June l0.-The Grand National Steeple-
chase. with thirty-three entries.
June 1l.-Ine IODOSSdn liandlcap, WIN
sixty-nine entries
June l3.--The Keene Memorial, with one
hundred and nine entries.
June 1.-THE Fashion (illies). with six
ty-eight entries.
June lS-The Harlem. with flfty-one
entries.
Juno 2o.-The Belmont, with forty-two
entries. and owners Fund Stakes, the
Laureate. with one hundred and twenty
entries.
A. NJ Earlocker has issued the pro-
gramme books for the twenty-day meet
ing and the conditions should suit ali
horsemen, as ii is repete with handbags,
condition races, selling handicaps, while
the two-year-olds are especially well pro-
vided for. =.
Quite an attractive novelty is giving all
the overnight handicaps distinctive names
of towns and points OF interest in the
neighborhood OF Belmont Park, such as
the Queens, the Mineola. the Westbury.
etc.