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Show GALLOPERS BROUGHT OUT Fll THUMB! Racing Season Opens Month Earlier Than a Year Ago. NEW YORK. Marcli S. With unmistakable unmis-takable signs of approaching spring In the air, forty thoroughbred horses, heavily shod awl wrapped in blankets, have emerged from their winter quarters at the Long Island courses and aro being exercised daily on the Coney Island boulevard. boul-evard. "Within ,a week the Gravcsend and Shcepshcad Pay tracks will be harrowed and put in shape so that regular work will be possible. , Last year the horses old not get out of their quarters o early because Ihe opening of tho season did not take p'.aoe until May 13. Put as the coming campaign cam-paign begins at Aqueduct April 15, the trainers who arc anxious to win early stakes ftnd that they have just live weeks to get their horses ready. There is unusual Interest in the two-year-olds this spring. James R. ICecnc, August Belmont. II. P. Whitney, R. T. Wilson. Jr.. and Join K. Madden have the largest 'ntimocr ready to begin training train-ing and It Is 'generally believed that one of these stables will produce a champion. |