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CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE JUNIOR CHAMPION STAKES. The Junior Champion is the most valuable stake for two-year-olds of the Gravesend autumn meeting and last year netted Salvidere 3,475. Owing to a reduction of the subscription from 250 to 00, it will not be so valuable this year, but with its ,000 added is still well worth winning. A rich stake of the same nafiie was run at Monmouth Park when that great track was in existence, and made the noted colored trainer. "Brown Dick," wealthy when his colt Protection won it in 188!. It brought him 2,120. Tlie Gravesend Junior Champion lias never been worth that much, its greatest value being S,320, when Mesmerist won in 1801. The record of the race is as follows: Year. First. Jockeys. Wt. Second. Wt. Third. Wt. Val. Time. 1S9S Armament Maher .-.107 Hhinelander 107 Aliom 115 $ 9,000 1:141 1S99 Mesmerist OConnor. .122 High Order 112 Ildrim 105 1S.320 1:15 1900 Commando Spencer. .127 Bellario 117 Olympian 107 10,510 1:13 IDOltGoldsmith N. Turner.. 127 Igniter .. 110 Rockwater 107 12.G50 1:11? 1902 Acefull II. Cochran.. 110 Lord of the Vale 110 Blue Ribbon 110 13,425 1:09? 1903 Highball Fuller.. 127 Leonidas 122 Ormondes Rlghtl22 12,760 1:10? 1904 Sysonby Redfern..l27 Wild Mint 117 Cairngorm 110 0,010 1:09 j 1905 Pegasus Lytic.. 110 Kuroki 110 Voorhees 117 11,775 1:10? 1900 Salvidere W. Miller. .124 De Mund .. 127 Ballot 127 13,475 1:10 tHeduced from full three-quarters to present distance.
