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HATCLE3IS STAKE OFFERINGS Stakes to be decided during the short spring and summer meetings at Harlem were announced by Secretary Nathanson yesterday The list of twelve valuablevfixtures opened last winter is duplicated except in some minor changes in conditions based upon results in 1001 and a shifting in values where ¬ by the lowest added amount is 1500 instead of 1250 1250The The Twentieth Century Handicap remains the leader with 5000 added and an estimated value of 7500 In this also the entrance fee has been re ¬ duced from 20 to 15 15The The M Lewis Clark Stakes is again a feature It is for 3yearolds nine furlongs and is the annual trial for the American Derby being run just one week in advance of the great Washington Park event One of its popular points with horemen is that by its conditions the winner carries no penally for the big Derby Last year fortytwo of its nom ¬ inations were candidates for the famous fixture at Washington Park Tho twelve stakes announced yesterday will close on Monday February 10 and are as follows Amount Value Value Value Valuet t ilts2JuXVdded stimated in 1901 in 1000 1000Twentieth Twentieth 7220Harlem Century 5000 7500 7220 Harlem 3500 5750 5790 1470 2000Austin Chicago 1470Chicago 2000 3500 3980 2000 Austin 1500 3000 2900 2000 Garden 2000Garden City 2000 3600 3270 2000 MLewis 2000MLewis Clark 2000 3000 3140 1140 Hiverside 1140Hiverside 1500 3000 2580 1300 1300Junior Junior 1500 3000 2630 1800 Proviso 1800Proviso 1500 3000 2040 1800 Youngster 1800Youngster 1500 3000 2750 1800 Graduate 1800Graduate 1500 3000 2280 1230 Petite 1230Petite 1500 3000 2650 1150 1150Additional Additional stakes for the midsummer and autumn meetings at Harlem will be announced in July The second list will include such fixtures as the Maywood and Oak Park Handicaps the Prairie State Cicero Speed Sapling Aspirant and For ¬ ward Stakes and several events for steeplechasers Crosscountry racing will receive special attention at Harlem this year The sport proved so popular last spason with only a handful of fair performers that SecretaTy Nathanson has planned an effort to provide the real thing through the field during 1902 To that end he intends during March to visit the jumpers strongholds in Maryland Virginia Wash ¬ ington Boston and New York and offer to owners inducements in the way of stakes purses and in ¬ creased number of races over the obstacles obstaclesThe The field at Harlem which was considered almost a perfect one last year will be further improved The disfiguring whitewashed boards upon which the jumps are based will be removed altogether and every obstacle will be of dirt and sod only The location of the jumps will also be changed to greater advantage by overcoming the present sharp turns and the finish will be on the inside thus avoiding the foulproducing twist into the main homestretch These latter improvements will be rendered possible by one of the most important moves made at Harlem this winter This is noth ¬ ing Jess than the abolishment of the old inner or training track and in its place the construction of a grass course similar to the turf course at Sheeps head Bay BayThe The novelty of the year planned by the Harlem Jockey Club is flat racing on the grass and there will be events at all distances with highweights on the turf course daily A large force of men has been constantly employed at Harlem Park since last November in making marked improvements The stables kitchens roadways and drainage have been repaired and rebuilt and an innovation for the trainers will be a wide cinder road almost circling the plant upon which to train horses when the main track cannot be used in bad weather weatherA A number of cottages for the use of horsemen and their families will be ready for occupancy early in May Twenty acres immediately west of the course have been acquired by purchase by President John Condon and will be arranged into paddocks and pasture ground for horsemen stabling at Harlem Aside from this plans have been drawn for a pad ¬ dock from original designs by Messrs Condon and Nathanson such as will outdo any similar structure in the world in cost perfection of detail and at ¬ tractiveness This will be build if the necessary material can be secured in time for this years rac ¬ ing If not the new paddock will bo reserved as the leading improvement for 1903 The reconstruct ¬ ion of the golf course and the building of a club house arc contemplated by the Newspaper Golf Club whose members have their golfing home on the Harlem liiiks As an interesting incident of theracing Secretary Nathanson plans to have no race worth less than 500 run at Harlem this season The total amount of money added to purses will be much greater than last year a system that pleases the average owner far better than the giving of a small number of valuable stakes on account of the greater chance of a more equitable division of earnings But in every race with less than 500 added there will be an entrance fee that will bring the total to 500 or more The program for fortythree days of racing contemplates the disribution of 200009 Entrivblaralw for tbo twelvo Stikf 3 closing F hru ary 10 are ready for distribution and theHaricm Jockey Club will make a thorough canvass for en ¬ tries among the owners of highclass thorough ¬ breds After an early trip to Kentucky points Sec ¬ retary Nathanson will leave on January 20 for Cali ¬ fornia to interest horsemen there in Chicagos rich racing program and after that will visit Memphis Z G Stebbins will be in charge of the New Orleans field and Clerk of the Scales Poiheroy is scheduled for Louisville and Lexington
