view raw text
GREAT STAKES TO CLOSE NEXT SATURDAY. A number of rich stakes of the future offered, by the Westchester Racing Association, close for entries at midnight of Saturday next. To western owners these stakes should prove of .prime importance. As turf affairs in the west now are, opportunities to :engage promising youngsters advaiffageously arebf the scantest, with no near prospect of a reversion to the former more prosperous conditions In that regard. No doubt Memphis, Nashville, Louisville and Latonia will be in the field with their usiial provision of stakes for their spring meetings, and Douglas Park will provide something additional, but for midsummer and autumn racing nothing better is to be looked for than the monotonous grind of small purses at Latonia and the Louisville tracks. This will do for the platers, but not for the owners of good horses, particularly the possessors of good two-year-olds. It Is this state of affairs which should appeal effectively to western owners in , the way of inducing more than ordinarily liberal entries to the valuable eastern stakes. 1 The stakes now offered are all of longf established fame and, with the exceptionof the ,Beimoht of 1909, which is for foals of 1Q06, are for now yearlings, being the Juvenile, Fashion, and t Eclipse Stakes for two-year-olds of 1907; ; the Withers, La- dies and Belmont Stakes of 190$ and the Belmont of 1909. The added money to the :Vithers..has been Increased from ,000 to 0,000. To the Ladles it has been raised from ,000 to ,000. The forty-second Belmont, that is the Belmont of 190S, is ot the guaranteed value ot 5,000, ; haying already closed for foal entries, but the Belmont of ,190! has been increased to the guaranteed value of 0,000. Such increases in value are to be taken Into respectful account. No wise owner will hesitate about engaging his well bred youngsters In such rich events. The selling value of a yearling or two-year-old is vastly enlianeed by Its nominations iu big future events. The stakes now offered are: FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS OFIOOT1. Juvenile Stakes, ,500 added.; 5-S mile. Fashion Stakes, fillies, ,O0d added; 4 1-2 furlongs Eclipse Stakes, ,000 added; 5 1-2 furlongs. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS QFipOS. Withers Stakes, 0,000 added;, linlie.., , . -. .... Ladies Stakes, fillies, ,000 adiled; 1 mile. Belmont Stakes, value 5,000; 1 3-8 miles. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS OF 1909 NOW FOALS. Belmont Stakes, value 0,000; 1 3-8 miles. At the same time the National Stallion Race will close for the nomination of stallions. Entry blanks are ready for applicants at this office and nominations are to be sent to H. G. Crickmore, clerk ot the course, The Windsor Arcade, New York.
