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Show ! HARNESS RACING IS BOOMING IN COUNTRY BOSTON. .May 20. Harness horse j racing is in for n big boom in all parts i of the country this summer, The han-! han-! dicaps under which the running meet-. meet-. ings are. being hold hnve tended to bet- tor the, harness game, and on every side arrangements have been made for big-. big-. ger and better contests this season. Here the Pittsburg and Allegheny and ' Schonloy Matinee clubs will furnish an excellent quality of wceklv races. H J is estimated that about $l!000,000 will be distributed by the various circuits throughout the country. Tn tho Grand circuit alone nearly '$700,000 will bo split up. Then thefc is revolution pre-l pre-l dieted in customs and results in tho ( Grand circuit this year. The change 'from the old-fashioned heat races to the handicap system, patterned after the Russian idea of pneers and trotters, is finding fnvor every day. The prominent promi-nent trainers are changing their methods, meth-ods, following the system of tho trainers, train-ers, of running horses, by paying more attontion to the development ot speed than to the judge of pace, which serves them in the two-in-three or three-in-fivo heat sysfem. It was the Rcadville (Maes.) management which first started the hnndicnp schoinc in this country, and since its great $50,000 race last summer tho plan has been copied all over the count rv. |