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VALUABLE NEW PRODUCE STAKE PROPOSED. New York October 22. It has been decided by the Westcliester Racing Association to add to its schedule an iuqiortant produce stake for two-year-olds. It will he known as the Homebred Produce Stakes and will have its first running at the lSel-niont Park fall meeting next season. Nominations for this race will be closed for 1015-16 and 17 when the other stakes of the association are closed December 14. It will be a live . furlong affair and while the value has not yet been definitely decided upon at thU time, it will carry not less than .0C0 111 added money. A conservative estimate of this prize will make it worth from 5,000 to S.000 and as in the Futurity ,000 of the prize money will go to the original nominators, or. breeders. The breeder of the first horse there will receive a prize of 00: the breeder of the second. $.i00, and the breeder of the third 00. Only American foals are to be eligible. It Is probable that other produce stakes will lie offered as racing in this state returns to its full measure of prosperity and the value of such races will be increased with each gain in the prosperity of the sixirt. The importance of fostering the horse is being brought vividly home just at present by the great war that is ragin in Europe. It has been, proven that the thoroughbred is the sire best calculated to produce the war hor.-e. From time to time public-spirited sKrtsmen and breeders have sought to interest the government in the breeding if horses, and Au-iist Belmont, as well as others, have made donations of stallions for the purpose. Thus tar. practically nothing has been done by the government, but the Euroican war is likeiy to bring atKiut a realization of the iiniKverished condition of the United States army in the matter of remounts. A new movement to build up the American breeding industry to that the army may receive necessary benetits, will be headed bv such puhlic-snirited turfmen as August ISehnont, Joseph E. Widener, H. IS. Duryea, W. K. Vanderbilt, II. P. Whitney John Sanford, Thomas Hitchcock. F. H. Hitchcock. Thomas F. 1 van. C. K. G. Billings. Alex Smith Cochran, Gifford Cochran. II. L. Pratt. W U. Coe, Schuyler L. Parsons. James Butler and others who will race here next season. It is understood that General Wood will try to persuade the government to co-operate on a liberal scale.
