The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-07
Inaugural of Harness Year Has Many Novel Features Scheduled News of the Step pePS.

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 The inaugural of 1919 Grand Cir cult at North Randall track today will be with one of the most novel, liberal and up-to-date racing cards ever offered to campaigning stables and the sport-lovinS public, aside from a number of interesting and ad- ditiona1 features unknown on the harness turf. yet with assurance of bringing about most beneficial results for the popularity of the sport and advancement of breeding industry.
 It has seldom happened that C. five day racing card offered valuable cash prizes for as many varied sys- te1ns of racing, with so much added money events and reduced entry fees as to make fully 25 per cent of its total value, net contribution from harness racing association, over and above amounts contributed by race horse owners or deductions from win ners, nor has there been or will be, with the exception of Syracuse, where the system is confined exclusively to the thTee-heat, two in three and 1 dashes.
 It might be possible that even q
 meeting like that of North Randall can be improved upon, yet when one considers the are of the prevailing system, there is the supreme satisfac- tion that changes toward vital inn provements have already started with every indication of following. each other in faster order and quicker adoption than sports most enthus- iastic followers had hoped for.
 That race horse owners, their agents and active drivers are always ready to reciprocate in full measure every time a racing organization treats them by fair methods, is shown by the entry lists from the very start and the number of eligibles now on the grounds to respond to the call, q total of 251 for the regular program of 20 races. valued at S32,5OO. not twenty races, valued at $32,500, not counting youngsters to be named in the overnight events, a novelty so long unknown in the annals of the harness turf.
 What will be the nature and quality of the sport at the Cleveland oval will not be known until daily cards are fin ished and results announced, yet there is not the least doubt but all who are fortunate enough to be there will | witness the highest class sport they ever saw. possibly in every heat and | race, while the opportunity to inspect the largest and most select young sters ever seen in one meeting and 1 under such appropriate circumstances i ss this week.
 Perbaps those who are not easily | satisfied with small favors and always | cI,
 will not value much when a racing | card offers twenty-five per cent. added | money. specially when they compare | if with the thoroughbred turf, yet if 1 every harness racing organization 1 could favor race horse owners at the | same ratio of it's income as does | North Randall, the era of a most | nrosperous future of the sport will | start in full force
 The best and choicest racing ma | terial of the year are now gathered for the opening contests. one and all l in the finest possible form for their initial efforts. The prospects for a | racing season were never brighter l than that just starting and while the | always unexpected may happen as | they all march down the line, yet de- l voices of the sport and followers of | breeding industry could hardly ever l wish more happy omens than this | week..
 | At the inaugural of racing season | all hail to the management of North | Randall and it's teammate of the 1918 ! Grand Circuit, New York State Fair, with all sincere wishes and cherished hopes that their examples will soon | gain enough following among all whc
 can afford for the good of harness l racing sport.
 Race Secretary Blodgett of the New l York State Fair has handed us, with | request for early release, lengthy
 and expertly worded prophecy thai | his S3,000 Syracuse purse, the Z:1t pace, will not only be won by cer-