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LIBERAL RESPONSE IN JAMESTOWN STAKES. .Norfolk, Va., October 21. Horsemen have responded liberally to the Jamestown Jockey Clubs bid for entries for the Moiiticollo Hotel, Lynnliaven and Exchange Handicaps and the Thanksgiving and Merchants Selling Stakes. These stakes eloseil last week and they will bo run during the twenty-live days meeting which begins here November 2. The Monticollo Hotel Handicap, a race of one mile for Bll ages, will be the best of the meeting. It will pay the winner . in the neighborhood of ,500. The Lynnliaven and Exchange are for two and three-year-olds and are respectively worth ,000 each. The Thanksgiving Stakes is a race of one mile and nn eighth, for three-year-olds and over, and the Merchants a dash of six and a half furlongs for nil ages. In eaeh instance the value will be ,000. Among the nominators for these races are August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club of New York; Richard T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga Association; James R. Keene, vice-chairman of the Jockey Club; E. F. Cooncy. Harry Payne Whitney, James Rowe, Capt. P. M. Walker. U. S. A., Capt. E. B. Cassatt. U. S. A., Richard E. Watkins. Frank Nolan, of Albany, P. S. P. Randolph, Joseph E. WIdoner, William Garth, W. L. Maupin, Dr. Ashe, Thomas F. Ryan, Capt. William F. Presgrave, Charles S. Campbell of Montreal, J. W. Flvnn, Charles Kohler, Matthew M. Alien. Samuel C. 1111-drcth. William A. Burttschell, Samuel Louis, George W. Scott. John J. Ilyland and II. G. Bedwell. Sonic of the nominations for the Monticollo Handicap v are Naushon, Beaucoup, Prince Ahmed, Sticker, Spohn, Watervale. Ilcatherbroom, Hoffman, Plate Glass. Lawton Wiggins, Hilarious, Sweepaway, Lahore, Cliff Edge., Priseillian, Zeus, Novelty, Hampton Court, Superstition and Sir John Johnson. The Exchange Handicap has attracted Priscillian, Water-vale. Touch Me, Zeus, Novelty, Hamilton Court, Superstition. Sir John Johnson, Lawton Wiggins, Grasmere. Cliff Edge, Naushon. Beancbup, Prince Ahmed, Sticker. Spohn. Hoffman and Plate Glass. Among the two-year-olds in the Lynnliaven are Flying Yankee, Futurity. New River, Mission, Lucky-Lass, Tactics. Little England, Moisant, Belle of Nelson and Suulike. Some of the platers in the Thanksgiving Stakes are Superstition. Billy Vandcr-veer. Bob It., ...idrian, Grasmere. Aspirin, Madri-galiau, J. II. Houghton, Martin W. Littleton, Beau-coup, Amain. Sticker and Spohn. Tho Norfolk track is being put in racing condition by George Miller, who has been busy here for two weeks. Already the going is good. Ho promises that the track record of 1:39, for one mile, held jointly by Ragmau and Hoffman, will be broken next month. Mr. Miller is making the steeplechase course over in preparation for the best chasing over seen in this part of Virginia.
