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WORTHS SlAKKS. Secretary Jasper announces eight good stakes for the Worth Jockey Clubs fall meeting, which will open October 7 and run until November 1. Their value will approximate 5,000 and they will be for different ages and at various distances, from five and a half furlongs to two miles and a quarter. All have filled even better than was anticipated and with horses of good class, so they should do much toward sustaining interest in the local racing throughout the fall season. The Flyaway Handicap will be the feature event of the opening day. It is a sweepstakeB for alleges at six furlongs, and has seventy-one nominations, which include all the speediest horses around Chicago and throughout the west. Three stakes are to be run the first week of the meeting, and on Thursday, October 9, which is Chicago Day, Secretary Jasper puts on the appropriately named Phoenix Handicap, for three-year-olds only, at a mile and a sixteenth. This race will be worth at least ,500, and it should make a fine contest, as the thirty-nine entries include McChesney, Lucien Appleby, Aladdin, Harry New, Otis, Waina-moined, Waswif t, Hunter Raine and other good ones. For Saturday of the same week the Alpine Stakes is the principal race. It is a selling sweepstakes for three-year-olds and upward at one mile, and from the sixty-seven nominations should come a large and well-balanced field. Besides the above stake events the Worth meeting will have the Columbia Handicap, one mile and a quarter, worth ,500: the Liberty Handicap, a mile and a furlong, worth ,000; The Fort Dearborn Handicap, two miles and a quarter, worth ,500; the Oaklawn Stakes, five and a half furlongs, for two-year-olds, worth 4,000;, and the Chicago Ridge Handicap, for two-year-olds, one mile, worth ,500.
