Stakes Ready for Entries, Daily Racing Form, 1907-02-17

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t 1 i ■ STAKES READY FOR ENTRIES. The eastern racing campaign ol 1!M7 will be inaugurated at the National Capital, Monday. March 26, with the spring meeting of the Washlng- ton Jockey Club. The club offers a numlier of slakes to close for entries at Midnight of Saturday. February "it. besides some oilicrs that will close while The meeting is in BragreSB, The stakes to close February 2:: are the two Benning Spring liaudk-aus, which ore te be run ou the first and last days of the mealing. The First Spring is a dash of three-quarters o ■ mile, with ,000 added, ami the Second Spring, a dash of seven furlongs, with. ,500 added. Both are for 1 luce year-olds ami aver. For two-year-oMa three slakes are entered. The Dinner Stakes, four and a half furlongs, with ,000 added subscriptions limited to fifteen: the Washington Nursery, four ami a half furlongs. . MX added, and the Jesso Brown Cup. one half mile. . Mit and sloii in plate added. The tetter event is for two yea.- olds bred and foaled iu the District of Columbia. Virginia or Maryland. Two steeplechase stakes dose on the same date. They are the Spring Handicap, about two and a half miles. ,000 added, and the Kaster Monday, at the same distance. 50 added. The events that will t lose while the meeting is in progress are tie Amateur Cup. three-quarters ol a mile. 00 added: Chevy Chase Hunters Steeple chase. 00 added: Soul horn Steeplechase for hunters, 00 added, and the Spring Hunters Steeplechase. 1907.sh00 added. The Washington meetings are popular with owners from all sections and are always well patronized. For so early in the season the events proffered by the club are valuable and attractive. The time for closing entries is close at hand and owners designing an eaatera campaign are advised to send ui their nominations urouiptly, . __,


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