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HARLEMS ST1KE ENTKIES In announcing the receipt of 1309 nominations for the twelve stakes of the Harlem Jockey Club that closed on February 10 Secretary Nathanson claims to have reached the highest mark for events of this kind With cash entrance fees of 10 and upward prevailing for stakes on the Chicago tracks the recently closed lists show the average per stake to be Washington Park 83 Hawthorne 86 Har ¬ lem 109 This is a general increase over the figures for the identical stakes of 1901 ond at once indicates a certainty of sport of the highest grade for the coming season Some features of unusual import ¬ ance are shown by the details of the present Harlem Harlemtake take list a resume of which follows FOR THREEYEAROLDS AND UPWARD UPWARDValue Value ValueDist Dist Entries Entries with 10 10miles miles 1902 1901 starters startersTwentieth Twentieth Century 1 316 101 94 7515 7515Harlem Harlem 118 97 105 5705 5705Chicago Chicago 1 114 109 3640 3640Austin Austin 1116 146 121 340 340Garden Garden City 34 131 129 3810 3810FOR FOR THREEYEAROLDS THREEYEAROLDSMLewis MLewis Clark 118 76 85 3410 3410Biverside Biverside 1 99 87 2990 2990FOR FOR TWOTEAROLDS TWOTEAROLDSPetite Petite Wi fur 108 89 3080 3080Graduate Graduate 58 99 86 2990 2990Youngster Youngster 58 106 106 3060 3060Proviso Proviso 54 fur 120 97 3200 3200Junior Junior 34 112 91 3120 3120Totals Totals 1309 1199 45980 45980Av Av per stake 109 100 3831 Only two stakes show a falling off in number of entries the Harlem Handicap having eight and the M Lewis Clark Stakes nine less than for 1901 All the others show substantial increase eight of the fixtures having over 100 nominations each and the Austin leading with an enormous total of 146 candidates The five stakes for threeyearolds and upward attracted the entry of 589 horses an aver ¬ age of 118 and the five for twoyearolds are rich with 545 names an average of 109 109There There can bo no question as to the superior quality of material shown in the Harlem offerings of this season as compared with the many high class horses that participated in last years sport All of the great stables of the west and south are represented through the list in away that indicates their determination to race in Chicago throughout the season while for the first time a track other than Washington Park has succeeded in opening relations with the millionaire owners of the east In this fact is to be found the greatest promise for the future of local racing as the beginning thus made is likely to develop into a movement that will grow in strength from year to year yearJ J G Follansbee a steward of the Jockey Club has engaged his American Derby candidates Cameron and Keynote in the M Lewis Clark Stakes L V Bell the broker is represented by Paul Clifford Sweet Tooth and Eady Sterling Green B Morris has named his great handicap pair Water Cure and Autolight and his Derby hopes Homestead and Cunard Capt S S Brown is in with a string of youngsters and L O Apploby T D Sullivan M Jordan W M Rogers J T Stewart George W Shearer and Mrs F Mossom are among the others from the east having entries at Harlem HarlemA A feature of absorbing interest will be the show ¬ ing made by the large number of thoroughbreds imported and entered by E Corrigan and John A Drake After the Washington Park stakes closed Mr Corrigan purchased an additional lot of high class performers in England in time to nominate them for the Harlem fixtures among them Scintil lant declared by his owner to be probably the best thoroughbred in training ever shipped to America Cactus Marta Santa Judicious Western Duke and the Ravensbnry colt In all Mr Corrigan has named some forty different horses from home and foreign studs while Mr Drake has engagements in all stakes for which Alta Loma Alvescot Corblets Bay Harrow and Griffiths besides Runnels and Wyeth are eligible eligibleAll All the Chicago owners are of course heavily represented and with only three exceptions every important western and southern stable is listed The missing trio are Lucky Baldwin who ships east from Washington Park W B Jen ¬ nings and Burns Waterhouse who go to New York from California
