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MAKING ENTRIES These are important and perplexing days for owners of good race hones. Tbe Coney Island, Brooklyn, California, Lsuisville, Memphis, Brighton Beach and Little Bock Jockey Clubs and the Western Tnrf Association are all in the field with offerings of rich and and important stakes that will involve the distribution of an enormous aggregate of money among the owners who will prove fortunate enough to capture them. It is no slight task to enter a horse to the best advantage, and it is one in which owners and breeders make ead mistakes. It is now easy to perceive how costly, in all probability, was the oversight that left the dam of Mesmerist out of the Futurity of laBt year. The case is not isolated. It has often occurred that tbe best two-year-olds and three-year-olds have not been eligible to great stakes that would have been at their mercy had not their breeders or owners been afraid to take tbe chances involved in entering them. To breeders the task of making entries does not require so much thought as falls to owners of racing stables. They sell their yearlings in the expectation that it will devolve upon the purchasers to enter them in such stakes as they may select. But with the breeders it rests to make the great Produce Stakes the features of each racing season that the jockey clubs offering them wiEh them to bo. Euch stakes as tbe California Futurity, The Coney Island Futurity, The Produce Stake at Tanforan, The Matron Stakes, etc., are made or marred by the breeders. When it is considered that the breeder can enter a broodmare in all of the three great stakes first named for tbe trivial sum of 5 it would seem to be tbe height of business wisdom for him to enter all of his mares for the obvious reason that his expenditure iB sure to be recouped with heavy interest becauee of the fact that his yearlings will be eligible to those great prizes of the American turf. Certainly breeders will be blind to tbeir own interests if they fail to make the two newly oevised California produce stakes the great successes their liberal terms call for.
