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MEMPHIS STAKE OFFERINGS. Elsewhere in this issue will be found the conditions of the stakes offered by the New Memphis Jockey Club for 1904 and 1905, entries to which will close January 2, 1904. Concerning them a prominent official of the club writes: "Eight of these stakes will be decided at the spring meeting of 1904, and two, the Tennessee Derby and Oaks, are for the spring meeting of 1905. The Tennessee Derby has been increased in value from a ,000 added stake to ,0C0 added, and this should make the Derby for 1905 one of the richest stakes offered for three-year-olds in the west and should be worth, with any kind of support from the horsemen, at least 0,000. The Tennessee Oaks, with ,000 added, is already one of the richest, if not the very richest stake, offered for three-year-old fillies in the west. This stake should be worth about ,000. Both of these stakes are races without a penalty or an allowance. Every horse must carry its weight, a true Derby and Oaks, a true test, and the winner of either should be valuable for breeding purposes. No owner in the west, with a good looking foal of 1902, can afford to overlook these events. It costs nothing to enter either, and horses can be taken out the 2nd of May, or the 2nd of January at a very small expense. "Of the eight stakes that will close January 2, to be decided at the coming spring meeting, the Montgomery Handicap for three-year-olds and upward, distance 1 1-16 miles, has been increased in value from a ,500 added stake to ,000 added, which will make the stake worth about ,500; and in addition to this, the club also adds a silver cup or plate to the value of about 00. .This race will be decided the opening day of the meeting. "The Peabody Hotel Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, distance 1 1-8 miles, has been increased from ,000 added to ,500 added, making the stake worth about ,000; and in addition, the winner will receive a 00 silver cup or plate. This handicap will be run the closing day of the meeting. "The Tennessee Brewing Co. Stake, a selling stake for three-year-olds and upward, distance 7-8 of a mile, with ,000 added, was worth over ,500 last season. "There is one stake for three-year-olds, the Hotel Gayoso Stakes, with ,000 added, distance one mile, which is in the nature of a consolation for beaten horses in the Tennessee Derby and Oaks, and also a preparation for the Kentucky Derby, as the race is decided the latter part of th meeting and the value of the race is made with the idea not to penalize the winner in the Kentucky Derby, as the winner of a three-year-old race of the value of ,500, must take- up a five-pound penalty in the Kentucky Derby. "The club also offers three stakes for two-year-olds; one for colts and geldings, the Gaston Hotel Stakes, distance 1-2 mile, ,000 added, estimated value ,200; one for fillies, the Ardelle Stakes, distance 1-2 mile, 81,000 added, estimated value ,200, and the Memphis Stakes for two-year-olds, 5-8 mile, with ,000 added, estimated value ,000. This stake has been increased from a ,500 added stake last spring to ,000 added this year, and is a valuable stake for two-year-olds this early in the season."
