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HARLEM JOCKEY CLUB STAKES. In offering its annual spring and summer list of stakes for the consideration and patronage of the owners of this country, the Harlem Jockey Club presents very attractive features that should suffice to insure big entry lists and groat racing. The main Etake, is, of course, the new Harlem National Handicap, of the guaranteed value of 0,000 for this year, it being promised that the value of this event will bo greatly increased in 1904 and subsequent years. From the outset it is bound to rank as one of the leading fixtures of the western turf and in tho long run muBt be one of the means of causing eastern handicap horses to tako a shy at the rich Chicago offerings. The other stakes offered are ;hffestablished and favorites fixSures7""The valuable Twentieth Century Handicap with its ,CC0 added money is but little, if any, less important than the Harlem National and was marked by a great performance last year when Scintillant II. established a new American record at a mile and three-sixteenths. It will bo tho central feature of tho autumn campaign at Harlem this year, being set for decision Sept 7, while the Harlem National will be run off June 6, the first day of Harlems 1903 racing. Tho Chicago Stakes, ,0C0 added, one mile ; Garden City Handicap, ,0C0 added, three-quarters mile, and Austin Selling Stakes, ,500 added, one and one-sixteenth miles, constitute the remaining stakes for the division three years old and upward. The other stakes tendered are the M. Lewis Clark Stakes and Riverside Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds, and the Petite, Graduate, Youngster, Proviso and Junior, for two-year-olds. All are well endowed with added money and their conditions are set out in this issue of Daily Racing Foem. Entry blanks can ba obtained at this office and entries close Wednesday, February 18. ,
