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VALUABLE PURSES TO PREVAIL. New York, November 14. The Coney Island Jockey Club will not confine Its attempt to improve racing at Sheepshead Bay next season by merely increasing the value of the Suburban Handicap and some of the other stakes. It has been decided by the executive committee to advance the value of the overnight handicaps to ,500 and ,S0O in added money. No race probably will pay less than ,200. The annual gate receipts of the club justify these increases and the executive committee feels that it is only fair to let the horsemen share their prosperity. The Coney Island Jockey Club has always been liberal oand generally when advances in the values of purses are made at Sheepshead Bay, the other metropolitan jockey clubs fall into line. Since the Coney Island Jockey Club gets the best dates of the year and since the attendance at Sheepshead Bay is larger than any other track enjoys, the Coney Island management can of course afford to offer better purses than are hung up elsewhere. These increases will undoubtedly be followed by advances at Gravesend, Brighton, Belmont Park and Saratoga.
