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THE BROOKIAN BROOKING HANDICAP OF 1898 Monday will be a busy day for turfmen Turkmen in the east especially because on that day entries to a number of the most important stakes of the year close such star events as the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps included includedComing included Coming first the Brooklyn Handicap in the early months of the year properly evokes a greater volume of discussion and general inter ¬ est than the Suburban It is always contested by the best handicap horses of the country and from its very first running has been marked by finishes memorable for deeply exciting inci Vinci ¬ dents It is for the gross sum of 10000 of which the second horse receives 1500 and the third 500 and is over a mile and a quarter course The conditions for entry are 200 each half forfeit or only 15 if declared by February 21 Entries mailed to Secretary H D Mclntyre McIntyre 399 Fulton street Brooklyn N Y any time up to and including Monday will be in time timeBesides immensities Besides the Brooklyn the Parkway Handi Hand ¬ cap 1 116 miles Brookdale Boodle Handicap 1 18 miles Myrtle Stakes 1 116 miles and Patch ogue rogue Stakes six furlongs for 3yearolds and upward Broadway Stakes Preakness Realness Stakes Falcon Stakes each at 1 116 miles and May Stakes six furlongs all for 3yearolds the Clover Stakes Manhanset Manhandle Stakes and Bedford Stakes each at four and a half furlongs and Hanover Stakes five furlongs all for 2yoar olds the Greater New York Steeplechase about 2 12 miles and the Kensington Hurdle Handicap 1 34 miles are rich stake events that also close Monday to the same address
