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HAELEMS STAKE OFFERING. A 0,000 stake is offered by the Harlem Jockey Club to be run on the opening day of the spring meeting this- year. This announcement was made yesterday by Secretary Nathanson, ,in connection- with, a list of twelve important events to be decided at Harlem Park during the spring and ; summer meetings, the entries to which will close February IS. The 0,000 stake is practically a new one, although it retains the name of one of the feature fixtures of the Harlem Jockey Club the Harlem Stakes. As remodeled, the event is built upon the lines of the Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps, and its value is the same as those two stakes have been until this year. Heretofore the Harlem iHan-dicap has been at the distance of a mile ai.-J,-an eighth, with ,500 added; and last year, with its entrance and starting fee$, it was worth ,585, and was won by John Bright. In its new form the Harlem National Handicap is at a dlstantfMawafHjBggaHaa tflKHHHHHHBHHHHHHMM warranted in believing that it, will, its value will be increased next year to 5,000. It is the hope of Secretary Nathanson to further, increase the value to 5,000 in the third or fourth year of the existence of the Harlem National. The weights for the Harlem are to be announced :March 16, and declarations are due April 6, two months before the race is to run. It is probable that future books will he opened on the Harlem, as upon the Brooklyn, Suburban and American Derby. The list of twelve spring stakes announced, for Harlem Park is the same as last year, excepting the big handicap. Next to it in importance is the Twentieth Century, which has the. same added money ,000, with an estimated gross value of ,700. Last year the stake was won by tne .English horse Scintillant II. in the American record, time of 1:57 2-5. This eyent will be run on Monday, September 7, as the Labor Day attract tion at Harlem Park. Another feature which does not appear in the list because of being an over-night, event, is the. Derby Trial Special, which, as its name indicates is designed as a test for the eligibles for the Derby, being run three days before that race. The list of twelve spring stakes, is composed of five for three-year-olds and upward, the Harlem National, Twentieth Century, Chicago, Austin and Garden City;two , for three-year-olds, the M. Lewis Clark and Riverside; and five for two-year-olds, the Petite for fillies, the Graduate for colts, and the Youngster, Proviso and Junior, None of the twelve events has less than ,500 added, and the smallest estimated value- of any one of the number is ,000. The subjoined table presents the salient points of -the twelve stakes to close February IS: . FOE THEEE-YEAE-OLDS AND DPWAED. Stake. Dist. Added. Val. Harlem National Handp.l 3-16 ,000 0,000 20th Century Handicap... .1 3-16 5,000 7,700 Chicago Stakes 1 2,000 3,500 Austin Selling Stakes 1 1-16 1,500 3,200 Garden City Handicap 3-4 2,000 3,600 FOE THEEE-YEA E-OLDS , M. Lewis Clark Stakes.... 1 1-8 ,000 ,300 Riverside Selling..... ......1 1,500 3,000 FOE TWO-YEAB-OLDS. Petite Stakes 9-16 ,500 ,000 CONTINUED ON THIBD PAQH. t H ABLE SIS STAKE OFFERING. Continued from First Page. Stake. x Dist. Added. Val. Graduate Stakes 5-S 1,500 3,000 Youngster Stakes... 5-8 1,500 3,200 Proviso Selling Stakes.... 11-16 1,500 3,200 Junior Handicap 34 1,500 3,200 Estimated. Besides the increase in the value of spring stakes as shown by the foregoing table, the value of each of the fall stakes will be increased in value ranging from 50 to ?1,000. The fall stakes will close as heretofore in July. Not only has the club increased the added money of. its list of fixtures, but a substantial increase is promised for the purse and over-night r.vces. During the forty-three days of racing at Harlem Park in 1903 the racing association expects to distribute at least 00,000 in stake and purse offerings. In the list of stakes to be opened and closed in the summer, provision will be made for the steepelchasers. With only two weeks racing assigned to it preceding the month of August the Harlem Club deemed it inadvisable to offer special prizes for the spectacular form of the sport. The race meetings preceding and following the Harlem spring meeting for the most part do not include steeplechasing in the list of attractions. The better class of cross-country material therefore, could not be expected tc I come for so short a period, to be idle before and after the short interval of racing at Harlem. Later cross-country racing will receive special attention and liberal offerings will be made for this class of performers. - "With ihe announcement of the twelve stakes .to close February IS entry blanks will soon be distributed to the horsemen throughout the west. Later in the month Secretary Nathanson will make trips to the east and south for the purpose of interesting the own-ers of high-class, thoroughbreds in the rich program which the club he represents has to offer.L If he weather is at all propitious he expects the Harlem spring meeting to open with a hurrah as well as a big 0,- 000 feature race, besides the M. Lewis Clark .Stakes, the Derby Trial and three or four other stakes.
