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- AIM 0LD-TSME STAKE THAT IS TO BE REVIVED : 4. At Lexington and generally throughout Kentuckys blue .grass region folks formerly took great interest in the annual decision of the Ashland Oaks, for three-year-old fillies, but at a time when racing at Lexington was in a condition of depression the event was abandoned and It is now a dozen years since Myrtle Ilarkness defeated Bracegirdle on the occasion of its last running. The race is now to be" revived and given a place again in the Lexington program, a very lit thing to do. The old-time record of the Ashland Oaks is as follows: Year. First. Jockeys.. Wt. Second. Wt. Third. Wt. Val. Time. 1S79 Peru ...Allen.. 07 McGrathiana 07 Miss Ilardaway. 07 2,100 2:118 1550 Lavacca J. McLaughlin. .102 Virginia ..102 Observanda 102 1,400 2:44 1551 Lucy May Wolfe.. 102 Lizzie S 102 Lida Stanhope. ..102 1,000 2:41 1552 Issie Fisher. .102 Belle of Runnmede ..105 Fiona 104 1,000 2:52 1553 Vera Stoval.,102 Billetta 102 Iinogene 102 1,700 2:102 1554 Hitiight Tankersley. .105 Salara 105 Palmetto 105 jir.O 2:21d 18S5 Ida Hope West.. 105 Lizzie Dwyer 105 Gold Ban 105 2,075 2:11 lSSGlure Rye Garrison. .113 Katriua lis -1.050 2:11 Mary Ann Murphy.. 113 1SS7 Florimore Johnson. .11.! Wary 113 Nellie C 113 1.S00 2:121 1555 Hypocrite . Warlike.. 113 Julia L 113 Delia 113 2,240 2:12 1SS0 Jewel Ban Cooper.. 113 Brown Princess 113 Retrieve 113 2,700 2:081 1500 Camilla Britton..l07 Pearl Set 112 Dollikins 100 000 1:48 1501 Kthcl Overton.. 117 Miss Hawkins 101 Ma Belle 100 1,030 1:43" 1502 Unadilla II. Anderson. .112 Natalie 112 Maud Howard ..117 1.720 1:43 1503 Monrovia Washam..ll2 Elizabeth L 117 Sallio R ..112 1,525 1:53 1504 Queenlike II A. Clayton. .117 Charity 117 Shuttle 112 1.410 1:42 1505 llossio Britton..ll7 Queen May 117 The Princess 112 000 1:4SJ 1800 Myrtle Harkness Thorpe.. 117 Bracegirdle 117 ; 000 1:42 1S07 Race was discontinued. Distance 1 1-2 miles until 1SS2. 1 1-1 miles from 1SS3 to 1SS0, inclusive; thereafter 1 mile. Dead heat; first and second money divided.
