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Show RACING SEASON IS OPENED IN ARKANSAS Little Rock Filled With Horsemen; Rainy Weather Puts Track in Bad Shape. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 23. The tegular racing season of 1903 of the Western Jockey club circuit will be Inaugurated In-augurated here this afternoon. Weather conditions are arythlng but favorable, as it is cold and raw and rain has been falling fall-ing at intervals all morning. The city is tilled with horsemen who arrived during the nljtht from New Orleans. The flood at I Memphis has prevented a number of horses being shipped from there, but the I Clinton Park officials are still hoperul that the waters will recede :io as to permit per-mit the shipping of condidates for the Derby, which Is to be run Thursday. |