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SHE GREAT REPUBLIC. flWhen a racing organization offrs a now .stake of groat valne it at onco arouses the interest and approbation of owners because each can conceive that he may at some time bs fortunate enough to win it. In justice to owners it can be said that they are not often, slack in rewarding auch enterprise on the part of a liberally conducted jickey club and it is not likely that they will fail to take a liberal chance to capture one or all of the huge stakes offered by the Baratoga Association to be decided in 1903 and 1901. Here is not .one great stake alone to consider, but several that will be deemed nearly the most deBirablo prizes of the American turf, while one, The Great Bapublic, will be positively the most valuable. Only once before in the history of racing in this country has its guaranteed value of 0,000 been exceeded and that was when the Washington Park Club made the American Derby of 189S a guaranteed stake of 350,000. It is to be noted that the Great Republic haB this proviso in itB conditions: "If 350 nomination are not r eceived the association reserves the right to cancel the race." This is a precautionary proviso merely and it is not likely that the association will ever be called upon to take action under it. The foal nominations alone should approximate this figure if indeed they do not exceed it. The conditions of this great stake, as well as of the others that are to close with it, December 2, will be found elsewhere in this isBue and Daily Racing Form will, furnish entry blanks on application.
