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CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB STAKES. In this issue of Daily Racing Form the Coney Island Jockey Club advertises the conditions of a list of stakes opulent enough to stir up emotions of avarice in the minds of any horse owner. They close for entries January 5, 1903, and Daily Racing Foiyn will furnish entry blanks to all who may apply for them and earnestly commends them to the consideration and patronage of "Western owners. For the June meeting of 1903 is the Suburban Handicap, increased from a 0,000 guaranteed event to a 0,000 added stake, making it of an estimated value of 7,500. The June Handicaps have ,000 added, estimated value 0,000, divided among the Coney Island, ,500 added; the Sheepshead Bay, ,500 added; and the Long Island, ,000 added, one subscription only to start in the three. The Advance has ,000 added, estimated value ,000; the Equality has ,500 added, estimated value ,000, and The Thistle has ,500 added, estimated value ,500. All these for three-year-olds and upward. For three-year-olds proper comes The Swift, ,000 added, estimated value ,000; The Spindrift, -with ,000 added, estimated value ,000; the Great Trial, guaranteed at a minimum of 5,000, the club to add no less than ,000; the Double "Event, 0,000 guaranteed, or two races of ,000 each; The Zephyr has ,500 added, estimated at ,000; The Spring has ,500 added, estimated at ,000, and the Vernal has ,500 added, estimated at ,000. The great and undoubtedly growing popularity of steeplechases has set the club to frame a wonderfully attractive schedule, with the Beacon Steeplechase,, ,500 added, estimated value ,000; The Independence, ,500 added, estimated at ,000; and the Rockaway Cup, with ,500 added, estimated value ,500, and in addition plate to the value of 00. For the Autumn meeting there is The Flight, ,000 added, ,000 estimated value; The September, with ,000 added, estimated value ,000; The Autumn, with ,000 added, estimated value ,000; The Flatbush, with 0,000 guaranteed, and the Great Eastern, with ,500 guaranteed. Passing along to 1905, at the fall meeting of that year will be run The Futurity, with 0,-000 added, to which a voluminous entry list will scale away up toward 0,000.
