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LIST IS RECORD-BREAKER MORE THAN 1,150 ENTRIES RECEIVED FOR STAKES TO BE RUN AT CHARLESTON. List of Owners Represented Presages High Class Racing Horsemen Already Quartered at Course Well Pleased with Climate and Surroundings. Charleston, S. O., December 19. Entries for tho stakes to be run during the coming meeting of tho Charleston Fair and Racing Association closed last Saturday at midnight. According to announcement made today by Secretary L. A. Cassidy of the Association, the list wound up with tho greatest number of entries ever piled up for a winter meeting. Not less than 1,150 entries have been received to date, representing an average of fifty-eight entries to each stake. It is announced that the local track will therefore be able to boast of an average of sixteen more entries to each stake than Jacksonville had last season. Additional entries that may have been mailed to Charleston from distant iwiiits in tiie conntry may. swell the total. Twenty stakes, carrying a total value of 7,700, will be run during the 75-days meeting at Palmetto Park. The principal race will be the Palmetto Derby for three-year-olds, which will be the last stake to be run during the meeting. The winner will receive ,500, the second horse 00, and the third 00. Among the most prominent owners of thoroughbreds who have made entries in the stakes are the following: W. I. Austin, It. F. Carman, L. I". Doerhoefer, J. L. Holland, J. C. Milam, Samuel Ross, J. "11. AVainwriglit. Catesby Woodford, Gallaher Bros., W. P. Burcli, D. N. Prewitt, II. G. Bedwcll. W. B. Carson, William Gerst, P. Hymans, Mr. Earle, Ten nessee Stable, Capt. P. M. Walker. Dr. J. F. Adams. E. Moyne, Robert Davies, AY. L. Maupin. n. Burtt-schcll, E. F. Cooney. James Gritiin, James Mac-Manus, P. S. P. Randolph, Dr. J. S. Tyrec, R. T. Wilson, Beverwyck Stable, W. J. Youug, Lou Johnson and T. I. Sullivan. Quite a few horses have arrived here within the last few days. A. G. Blakeleys string came in from Norfolk. Gil Summers shipped in from Baltimore, and Dr. J. F. Keith, president of tho Citizens Bank of Sturgeon, Mo., scut his stable direct from the home farm. There are now quartered on the grounds of the association more than 350 horses. The training track is being used Tina seven-eighths of the main track will lie "ready within a few days. The horsemen jiniteindeclaring that the climate is ideal for1 training purposes. The stable help are enjoying life-to the utmost, as the Cooper river borders the grounds. Oyster beds and good fishing abound. It is nothing uncommon to flush a covey of quail in the infield.
