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Show SEASBM fjl Jamestown Takes W j Famous BenninfSs CourseM JOCKEY WOODLANil PAID f?880p Said to Be Larglfj Ever Paid a Ri$ the TurfS BY JAMES DOOKJ By Leased Wlro to Tho 2S NEW YORK. April 2.-15 son In the east opened the most favorable clreufcfl Initial meeting at Jamcs'wM gan yesterday, augurs 'yEwf east of the Ohio river fortnight heforc the mcQp room at Jamestown wasjlSB and applications came InSs room had been taken. iKB stalls were allotted to owuM final preparations wore UnjSi There aro plenty of ho'rj? town to Insure a succcsHfi? the main question was th6iv Jamestown carries for thSSd Judging from the favorabl(jl?fi In In the east this summ(5j up to the hopes and exjii pressed by myself and otn5ri Jamestown has taken tfofjs Bonnlufjs season, which (il3 racing In tho east. In tlnfir Now York sports traveledB'fo Ington to seo horse racing and while tho traffic inteV not so large as that wwi' marked tho opening at S enough to insure fine thvM mor. fftft ltaclng on the Paclflca, despite the handicap of nljgf. more successful this sprJnjigj dictions called for. Tom Mfg dent of the new Californlfifi; announced the cxtensIoii2l?j& to tho rogular programme?, where tho big Jeffrlcs-JoSiS! will be hold. Early In tWMJS was somo doubt as to .Vi" would be any racing at allj.'g What I3 declared to be'tfKj, of money ever paid to a jc$5! nlng a race is 5S800, yjjt FIschhof handed over tok'S lands, an English rldor, whjjji talont chlelly to cross-couafej Franco. Mr. FIschhof guari lands $2500 and the proceed? of $700, at odds of 9 to lj&p; Dnndolo when ho won tw: plcchase at Paris In 19083B time in his career, ho havfcfjl In 1901. 'fg In WOO "Tod" Sloan rectn winning tho futurity onif-. and earned $1-1.000 in allWl? W. C. Whitney for coml" England that year to ridjiU tho Sheepshead Bay falljjnjj fee to Woodlands, howevaaf est known in connection?,, chasing. Sr.v Dandolo Big Wg Dandolo Is now 11 yeayL again In training under JDefsr has won more than $120,0lpr far in excess of that of anM ' In the worlds lie has fej honors to Mr. rischhof. In need of good riders a-! Mr. FIschhof said. "Jus".m I offered Woodlands tenaa won an 5S00O race on Jovr-. declined. He asked ten Jfinjl and forty per cent if he)jy'i,i The sport of steoplechaflj had a better outlook tbiUal year. The season will b-Pimlico, b-Pimlico, following the Jail' ing. But already nearly fL', ings for other parts of UCVj" been accorded dates. Asi. attend hunt meetings aiini mostly own stables of Ji3. might attribute to them,' year If tho flat racing s" successful as predictions," Some who desired to seef we rules amended have drj, France, where the fasteM In the world arc develop--"' slble to run three-year-4..uin chases In July. This Is ngff0, year-olds run In hurdle ir?" ' as early as the middlog u there are no steepIechaKa I year-olds until three motP W It is tnio that the sew? l in the hurdle races holpsSI; lv in steeplechases, oupjJ, hand, so eminent an aiS3W, gene Flschhoff. In anffi' myself, recently declarcdn I thing for the winner oHwifc Monarch hurdle race In Jf win any llrst-class stejfmalj, after. Mr. Fischhoff, M years, has been nearly head '"of the list of v?ln!:S cross-country horses Infill season he was at the -If J 23 while W..1C. Vanderbllt ; y of the list of winning-flat. winning-flat. Mr. Flschhoft's opi as to the desirability of-' Sclpj year-olds to race In ste than October. , , t fovl "I do not think it wlsd .Jin, ground Is too hard In th 'ioJ anyhow, and the InevitaF"-the InevitaF"-the young horses hammq? degree of unsoundness S"4 useless later on In of cases whero horses hjPJr i over Jumps at two ymz: t In a moderate way. not m?1 toe only to accustom thomny?tfe o |