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- - ;i- THE GRAND UNION HOTEL STAKES : Besides smaller ones, Saratoga has two huge hotels the United States and Grand Union each having approximately a thousand guest rooms and each known to turfmen the land over. Kach has an important .slake race for two-year-olds named after it, of which the Grand Union Hotel Stakes is one of the attractions of this afternoons racing. Until IPOS it was of the guaranteed value of .0,000, but the blight that feii on racing when the Ilart-Agnew law was passed resulted in its being cut down to a comparatively low monetary endowment. However, it has been renewed for next year at more generous figures and will again be of high importance in the racing field. Its record is as follows: Xcar. First. Jockeys. Wt. Second. Wt. Third. Wt Val. Time. 1901 King Hanover T. Burns. .110 Goldsmith ...127 Dixieline 117 ,975 1:13 1902 Grey Friar T. Burns.. 114 Judith Campbell 122 Whitechapel ...122 10,990 1:13 1003 Highball Fuller.. 117 Dimple 110 Rapid Water... 117 10,815 1:14 1904 Siglight U. Phillips. .110 Jack Lory 117 Cairngorm 117 8,250 1:15 1905 Battleaxe .Hedfern. .117 Sandy D. Bulls Eye .112 Jerry Wernberg. 112 8,150 1:14 1900 Penarris ..Shaw.. 114 Aletheuo 112 Don Enrique 117 8,250 1:13 1907 Colin W. Miller. .127 Jim Gaffney 112 Ben Fleet 117 8.250 1:13 1908 Edward C. II. Shilling. .122 Bobbin 114 Lady Hubbard. .111 S.250 1:15
