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Show PIMLIC0 OPENS LATER THAN 'FIRST' ANNOUNCED Tho Maryland Joclcey club has decreed that racing at Plmllco shall start this year April 23, Instead of April 1, as was prcd feted. This makes the opening fall on tho fourth Saturday of the month, the same date as 100D. The meeting will clash with tho racing at Aqueduct and Jamaica., provided that the local' season opens here on April 15. tho date that sanctions the sport In this state under tho provisions of the Percy-Gray racing law. , Many of tho local horsemen petitioned the Maryland Jockey club to' hold Its spring meeting beginning April 1, In order to provide them tho opportunity lo race their horses at Plmllco and then ship them here In time for tho opening of the local season. But the officials of the Plmllco track refused to accede to tills request, saying that tho latter part of April was moro suitable to their patrons than any 'early date. Under this decision, either the Plmllco or the local meetings will suffer from lack of high-class horses. It was the Intention of August Belmont and R. T. "Wilson. Jr., to send strings of racers to participate In the meeting at Plmllco If the dates were suitable. Now Mr Belmont Bel-mont and Mr. Wilson will have to decide de-cide which track to patronize. The amateur jockeys who wcro granted licenses to ride during the meeting at Plmllco are John T. Bowdltch. A. Henry Illgglnson. A. C. Yarrow. Jr.. J. 15. Davis, John Tucker, Evans Tucker, Henry Tucket, Hugh A. Murdock. Alfred Bodon, Hugh Gormorly. O. Flclschman, Peter Clinch. Henry 1. BqII. JLathrop Brown and John H. Mulcahy. String of Trotters. Gus Macey has gone Into winter quarters quar-ters with a string of fifty trotters and pacers of the Gcortce H. Eastbrook string, n,t Oakland, Cal. Macey dropped Denver, Lady Seymour and yhltelock as unfit-Among unfit-Among those to spend the winter In California Cali-fornia arc: Country Jay, Spanish Queen, Colorado E., Tho Limit, Fanny Dawson, Dan S.. Tho Philistine. Eva Direct. Nancy Gentry, Magnus Patch, Allendale Queen and Willie Direct. |