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I J _ * . ] ! , , ! , i i i j , , , , , ■ [ j : j PLANNING VALUABLE RACE PIPING ROCK RACING ASSOCIATION ARRANGING FOR 0,000 JUVENILE EVENT. Race Will Not Be Confined to Members of Association, Invitations Having Been Extended to Outside Owners of Coming Two-Year-Olds of Promise. New York, December 13. — The Piping Rock Racing Association, which brought many new owners into the si»ort of racing by giving subscription races, has announced another event of this character which promises to be one of the most Tamable two-year-old fixtures in the east next year. The entry blanks have just lieen issued and the race will tie run at the next spring meeting at Locust Valley. The new race is to be called the Piping Rock Invitation Handicap ami is officially styled a private sweepstakes, so that the winner will not incur any penalty for stake events on the regular tracks. This is a big inducement for prominent owners, most of whom are identified with the club, to nominate the best youngsters in their stables. The club has had considerable success with this class of races and looks forward with confidence to a stake of aliout 0,000. ail of which will go to the winner. The conditions, briefly, are: "Private sweepstakes for two-year-olds of 00 each, to close January 1. 1916. A further liability of 00 each if not declared by April 1. 1916. Starters to pay .10 additional. All to tlie winner. Weights to lie announced three days before the day set for the running of tlie race. About five furlongs over the straightaway." In addition to the members of the Piping Rock Club and Piping Rock Racing Ass-iciation, other owners will be admitted to this choice event ou the invitation of the race committee, so that it is not likely that any really good two-year-old will lie missing when the field «oes to the |iost. One advantage a fixture of this kind has over such big races as the Futurity is the comparative late closing of entries. Trainers have some idea of the ability of the yearlings in their charge at present, so that nominations do not have to be made entirely on faith due to the records of their sire or dam. The handicap condition also gives each an equal chance to win the nh| purse. Entries will close wiUi Frank J. Bryan, 18 East Forty-first street, New York city.
