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Show GREAT RACE MEET IS 4 PROMISED AT BUTTE BUTTE, Juno 28. Tho thirty-day raco meeting of tho Butto Jockoy club, which opens in Butto Wednosday, July 19, and closes Tuesday, August 22, promises to excel any mooting heretofore hereto-fore held in the great mining city. A better class of horses, a better class of horse owners, better management and a better racing plant aro the elomonts which will enter into making this a banner season at tho local track. At tho local track at prosont more than thirty head of thoroughbreds, some of them spriutors of know nabil-ity, nabil-ity, aro being conditioned for the coming com-ing meet. Considerable in tho way of improvements improve-ments at the local track have alroady been accomplished by Secretary Gcm-mell, Gcm-mell, and there aro still moro to be made. All of tho stalls for housing tho racers will bo overhauled and roofed by the date of the opening dny of tho meeting and horso owners will havo no room for criticism, as in 'tho past. A feature which will prove pleasing to tho racegoers is tho enlargement of tho betting room underneath tho grand eland. This summer those who want to placo their monoy on the chances of tho sprinters will not be elbowed and jammed and sweltered in tho crowded ring ag of old. An addition which gives 3C0 square feet, moro of Bpaco has boon made. Tho new loop of the street railroad to tho gate of the track is also an improvement, im-provement, that will mcot with the approval ap-proval of tho racegoers. In all, the indications aro that racing rac-ing will enjoy a prosperous summer hero this year. 1 |