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JAMESTOWN STALLS IN DEMAND. Augut Belmont Among Noted Nominators for Stakes to Be Decided at Norfolk. Norfolk, Va., October 25. The entire active division of the racing stable of August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, will be shipped to Jamestown at the conclusion of the Pimllco meeting and the scarlet and maroon of the master of the Nursery Stud will be seen frequently during the autumn race meeting here, which begins Thursday, November 13, to last fifteen racing days. General Manager Bob Levy received yestgrday the stake nominations of Mr. Belmont, which lie personally made, and the fact is abundantly attested by their character and quality that some of the turfs preeminent two-year-olds will be in the limelight at the local seaside course this fall. Each of Jamestowns four stakes, the Merchants Selling Stakes, six furlongs, to be run ou the opening day; the Lynuhaven Hotel Handicap, to be run on the Saturday following, at the same distance; the Monti-cello Hotel Handicap, to be run on the following Saturday, and the Thanksgiving Selling Handicap, on "getaway day," admits two-year-olds, and tue choice lot of youngsters of proven prowess that Mr. Belmont has nominated will be attended in the running of these stakes by company worthy of their calibre. For the Merchants Selling Stakes, which is for all ages. Mr. Belmont has named Crossbun, the brown filly by Peter Pan Lucy Cross that is a half sister to the good winners Crossover and Cracker Box. For the .Lynnhaven Hotel Haudicap four of the best Belmont two-year-olds are eligible, including three colts and one filly. He has nominated Flittergold, brother to Fair Play; Flltaway, a well-built and sturdy half sister to Field Mouse and Flamma; Thornhill, brother to the mighty Hawthorn, and Hapenny. Hapenny and Thornhill are also eligible for the Monticello Hotel Handicap, the most important stake in Jamestowns program and they will be called upon to cope with the older stake performers. As It appears now, the Lynn-haven Hotel Handicap, which will be the last important two-year-old stake of the year, will have a field of at least ten, including Gotelus, Flittergold, Hodge, Please Welles, Superintendent; tndauuted, Garl aud others of similar calibre. With a proper adjustment of the weights it should prove a contest worth -oing miles to see. Clerk of the Course Joseph McLennan has finished his work at Latonia aud has forwarded to Manager Levy a. list of, the stake nominations and stable reservations for the horsemen raicing there who- will some to Jamestown. In all nearly 100 horses wili :e sent here on a special train over theChesepeake and Ohio railroad, which will depart from Cincinnati jn the evening of Sunday, November 9. The time In transit will be little more than fifteen hours and the Kentucky horses will lie unloaded and in their stalls before feeding time the following wening. Mr. McLennan reports that horsemen are unusuallv dimerous who desire to race at Jamestown, due in lart to the fact that the seventy-eight days meeting at Charleston will immediately follow the racing .lore. The list of the stake nominations now is being tabulated and will be announced within the next few days. Dining his stay at Laurel this week Manager Levy inished clieckJii" up the stall reservations of horsemen ou the Maryland circuit with Messrs. F. W. Gerhard- Harry White and M. M. Malioney. who made a thorough canvass of the situation there. There will be nearly 500 horses at Jamestown from Iimlico and Laurel, and with the 100 horses certain to be here from Latonia, not a stall will be vacant at the track. Great progress was made during the week by track superintendent George Miller on his projected ira-povemcnts at the track, and now only the usual reparations and clearing away remain to be done. Ml this can be accomplished In two or three days. The course right now is in superb condition, and the colony of turfmen already here are setting lown on their charges for smart moves. Some of the Virginia jumpers which came down from Warrenton. Petersburg and Richmond already have been sent through tiie field, as the jumps arc In first-class condition. They will be topped afresh a week before the meeting begins. The opening day of the meeting will be Ladies Day. and all indications point to a notable occasion from a local social statndpoint.
