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MORRIS PARK STAKE ENTRIES. The Morris Park Stakes, that closed February 7, registered a good increase in entries over 1898 The total of the spring stake then was 564. This year it is a total of 819, with a possi bility of belated entries from remote points yet to arrive. The response to the liberal increase of added money to the Metropolitan Handicap was snch as to give it the greatest entry list of its history. Evidently owners are not overlooking their own interests this year. Another central point of interest is the remarkable entry of fifty-seven horses in the Grand National Steeplechase. At first impression it would hardly bo thought so many jumpers are in this country. However, a jumping stake with ,000 added is a new thing in our turf history and will cause many a fair racehorse to be forced to show what he can do over the timber. If a few more such stakes were instituted it would tend to raise the jumping game in importance and popular interest. The stakes and entries ara as follows: Metropolitan Handicap, 3-year-olds and upward, 1 mile 57 Harlem Stakes, 3-year-olds and upward, 1 mile 37 Toboggan Handicap, 3-year-olds and upward. Eclipse Course 45 New Rochelle Handicap, 3-year-olds and upward, 7-8 mile 42 Highweight Serial Handicaps, 3-year-olds and upward: Cretona, 3-4 mile; Clare-mont, 6 1-2 furlongs; Van Courtlandt, 7-8 mile 45 Amateur Cup, 3-year-olds and upward, 1 mile 21 Gaiety Stakes, 2-year-old fillies, 1 2 mile 54 Bonquot Stakes, 2-year-olds, 5 8 mile 47. Laureate Stakes, 2-year-olds, 5-8 mile 40 Larchmont Stakes, maidens, 3-year-olds, 7-S mile 49 Bay Chester Stakes, 3-year-olds, 1 mile 43 Yfcn Nest Stakes, 3-year-olds, .6 1-2 furlongs. 24 Pocantico Handicap, 3-year-olds, 1 1-16 miles 31 Grand National Steeplechase, 2 1-2 miles. .. 57 New York Steeplechase, 2 miles 42 Knickerbocker Hurdle Stukes, 1 3-4 miles... 20 St. Nicholas Hurdle Stakes, 1 1-2 miles 29 The stakes that are to be decided at tho autumn meeting did not receive as many entries as might easily have been anticipated, but it must be remembered that there is to each a supplementary entry next summer when by paying a larger entry fee owners have the privilege of nominating their horses that have by then proved their worth through the unanswerable test of the racetrack. These stakes are as follows : The Morris Park Handicap, 3-year-olds and upward, 2 1-4 miles 18 The Mnnicipal Handicap, 3-year-olds and upward, 1 3-4 miles 19 The Manhattan Handicap, all ages, Eclipse Course -. 22 The Champagne Stakes, 2 year-old, 7-8 mile 28 The White .Plains Handicap, 2-year-olds, I Eclipse Course 32 The Jerome Handicap, 3-year-olds, 1 14 miles 20
