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BIG GAIN IN FUTURITY NOMINATIONS. Rich Stakes to Be Provided hy the United Hunts Association for This Year. New York. January 0.— The Futurity of 1JlS has at last closed with 040 entries from eighty-two nom-in.it rs, including quite a number from England and Frame, estimated at aliout 100. There are also many new names among the nominators, including R. I . Cassatt. a brother of Capt. K. B. Cassatt. G. It. Tompkins, M. C. F. Chatterlee, Barnard Flynn. Hardin Field. W. S. Kilmer. Mrs. Sydney Joseph-thai and William Lincoln Crosby, who will race under the name of the Grosvenor Stable. It is probable the number i f nominators will be slightly increased, as Adolph B. Sprockets, of San Fraucisco, has not yet been heard from. C. B. Deniman. of Newmarket, a member of the British Blood Stock Agency, will send forty-seven three and four-year-olds here for sale. Present plans indicate they will be sold February IS. W. C. Edwards, secretary of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, will leave for Havana next Saturday on an extended trip. The Halted Hunts Association held a meeting today and re-elected its old board of officers. it Was also decided to have a .MM» steeplechase stake in tlie spring and one of ,000 in the autumn, also a two-year-old race at one mile in the autumn, which will probably be worth .oiN . A fund of 3,000 will be subscribed to finance the meetings this year by the members of the association. J. W. Uwathasey was the only addition to the beard of directors. GMtord a. Cochran retiring. At the annual meeting of tin- National Steeple chase and Hunt Association, held today, the follow lag stewards were reelected: J. E. Widener, II. W. Bull and Henry J. Morris. The following officers were elected: August Belmont, president: II. s. Page, vice-president, and II. W. Bull, honorary secretary and treasurer. Frank J. Bryan was appointed secretary of the hunts committee, and Geoge W. iall secretary of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association. An amendment to rule 90 was adopted, prohibiting the racing of three-year-olds through the field until August 1. May 1 was the date heretofore.
