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FUTURITY NOMINATIONS TO CLOSE. At midnight of Monday n -xt entries of mares will close to tiie Futurity of 191s. It is to be hoped 1 ■ every Hood broodmare in the United States will 1 and! * nominated. It will tie historic- in that it will 1 ■ « the first time in which the event will close in i febe name and under the endorsement of the West-Kestei- - Pacing Association. Always heretofore it t ■ s closed in the- name of the Coney Island Joe key j ■uK But the big event has l een formally trans- Br. .1 io th - Westchester Racing Association ami ■b be decided at lU-lmdnt Park in the future. W n. -t value in vears past has varied greatly, once i Hl -hing 1916.sh7.07.", but adverse turf legislation lias s Briueecl it value considerably in the past few years. Him e iis transfer, however, the Westchester Racing j B sKe-i:itiou will endeavor to bring it back to its own i ■ri respect to value. That is a matter, however, HRat rest- mainly with nominators. The Futurity r r f 1910 had an original entry list of 528. If the e k . one now to close should receive something like e * 7 0 mares, to start with, it can hardly fail to bring a net return to the winner of something like e •Md-time flguns. The Westchester Racing Assoe-i.i- tion makes the customary endowment of ,000 0 in added money.
