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SARATOGAS STAKES. A week from to-morrow entries close for the splendid list of stakes offered this year by the Saratoga Association. It is a list worthy of the best days of the famous old track. Sixteen in number, the stakes are as follows: For 2-year-olds : Grand Union Hotel Stakes, a double event of ,000 each half. The first half 5 1-2 furlongs; second half 34 mile. 0,000 guaranteed. Congress Hall Stakes, ,000 guaranteed; 5-8 mile. Worden House Stakes, I2.CO0 guaranteed, fillies; 5-8 mile. McGrathiana Stakes, ,000 guaranteed; 5-8 mile. William J. Lemp Brewing Company Handicap, ,000 guaranteed; 5-3 mile. Pepper Stakes, ,000 guaranteed; 5 1-2 fur-loners. Fleisohmann Stakes, ,000 guaranteed; 5 1-2 furlongs. G. H. Mumm and Co. Handicap, ,008 guaranteed; 34 mile. For three-year-olds : The Madden Stakes, 1,000 added; 1 mile. TheHendrie Stakes, 50 added, fillies; 1 1-15 miles. The United States Hotel Stakes, ,000 added; 1 1-8 miles. For three-year-olds and upward : Saratoga Grand Prize, ,00 guaranteed; 1 l-S miles. Citiiena and Merchants Handicap, ,000 guaranteed; 1 1-16 miles. Spencer Handicap, ,2S0 added; 1 14 miles, For all ages: The Kearney Stakes, ,100 added; 8-4 mile. For the. jumpers : The Kensington Hotel Handicap, hurdles, 11,000 guaranteed, 2 miles. The BeSrerwyck Steeplechase, ,000 guaranteed; fall course. All around the stakes call for the distriba-tion of probably 0,000 among the owners of the horses destined to carry off the winning honors. A peculiar featare of the Saratoga Stakes is the unusual proportion of their value allotted to the second and third hcrsea. Ia the events of ,000 guaranteed value, ,000 goes ts second horse and 00 to third. Of the ,000 event the second and third horses take 00 and 00 respectively while in the ,000 stakes it ia 00 and 00. It would seem that this rata of division tends to increase the fields and lead to keener contention in finishing eut. As to the advantages of Saratoga President Edward Kearney says : "Saratogas wonderful recuperative powers have long been celebrated. Horses whioh spend even short intervals there annually go back to New York and the west and sweep all before them. Our twenty-seven days meeting in midsummer, with hardly any opposition to conflict with horsemens interests, will do much ta recuperate the stable and equip them for the fall campaign. A cursory glance at the record of the Futurity may be of interest to those who may not be aware of what Saratoga horses have accomplished in that great race: "Prector Knott, the first winner of the Futurity, had spent soma weeka at Saratoga, was then taken to Monmouth Park, won the Junior Champion Stakes, then back to Saratoga where he won the Equity Stakes and a week later won the Futurity. The three placed horses in the Futurity of 1893 Domino, Galilee and Dobbins, had been for some time at Saratoga, In 1194 The Butterflies the winner, and Agitator third, in the Futurity had been for several weeks at Saratoga. In 1895 the. first and. second CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE, SARATOGA STAKES. Continued from 1st Page. in the race Requital and Crescendo, had run first and second in a stake at Saratoga. In 1S96 Ogden was given five weeks of Saratogas air and water, and the result was Mr. Marcus Dalys great coup, and finally in 1898, the first third and fourth horses in the race Martimas1 Mr. Clay and Dr. Eichberg, had all made the campaign at Baratoga. In 1898 eleven of the twenty-three starters had spent the season at Saratoga. Daring the remainder of the season the prestige of Saratoga horBes was maintained at all other racing points. It is the earnest desire of the Association to once more make Saratoga the mutual meeting ground for the best horses from the north, south, east and west, and from Canada." Entry blanks can be obtained at the office of Dailt Racing Foem, and all entries should be addressed to B. A. Chilton, secretary, 1402 Broadway, New York.
