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INSTITUTION OF ANOTHER STAKE. No other American racing organization has originated and maintained so many great stakes with striking and popular conditions as the Coney Island Jockey Club. The Suburban is simply a great handicap that is matched by the Brooklyn and Brighton, but such events as the Futurity. Great Filly Stakes. Ai nual Champion. Double Event. Lawrence Realization and the Cenlury. are gems of ingenuity that have no counterparts in the racing programs of our other jockey clubs. It is characteristic of the Coney Island Island Jockey Club that it is never content to tread long in beaten paths. Other clubs may proceed on the presumption that their offerings are already sufficient and all that turfmen could expect, but not so with it. It is to this enlightened and enterprising club noUcf that owners and trainers owe the institution of a great stake for three-year -olds that will be run for the first time next June at Sheepshead Bay. This newly established event is to be known as the Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes. It is to be a dash of one and one-half miles. It is to be of the guaranteed value of 5,000, with the further significant proviso that if any colt or filly that may win it shall also at the same meeting win the Tidil Stakes and the Lawrence Realization, it will win an additional 0,000. In lOOtt Accountant won the Tidal and Realization, and their combined net value was 1,3101 If the proposed new stake had been in existence then and been won by him the net let urn for all would have been $,1.0.J5. It is this net result, or perhaps a greater one, that in the future, will await the coming of a three-year-old good enough to carry off all three of these rich stakes, in the simplicity of its conditions the new event copies from the American Derby in having but two fees, 5 to accompany the nomination and 50 additional to start. The only penalty is three pounds and the extreme allowance is ten pounds. It closes for entries January 15. and in that respect again follows the American Derby precedent in closing at a date which permits the nomination of every young horse in the country that developed good form in racing as a two-year-old, and assures good fields from the outset. It is destined to rank with the greatest races of each recurring year and Daily Racing Form will be glad to furnish entry blanks to all applicants.
