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SARATOGAS MANY STAKE BACES READY. New Nork. March 8. — Lntries for the stakes of the Saratoga Racing Association, that are to be decided during the August meeting, will disc March 27. There are twenty fixtures in the list and they comprise Jill the old stakes and do not include the steeplechase slakes that are always an interesting feature of the Saratoga season. The stake offerings reflect the promised pr-s-perlty of the sport for the racing season, and the offerings are becomingly liberal. The list of stakes f.r three-year-olds and over comprises the Saratoga Handicap Of ,000 guaranteed, at a mile and a quarter; the Saratoga up of a mile and three quarters, of jj;.hmi added; the Champlaln Handicap of 82,800 guaranteed, at a mile and an eighth: the Merchants and Citi/.etis Handicap of a mile and three sixteeenths. with . ..00 guaranteed: the Delaware Handicap of a mile, with 82,300 guaranteed: the Amsterdam Stake-, selling, of a mile, with a guaranteed value of 81,300, ami the alskill Stakes, selling, of seven-eighths, with ,600 guaranteed. for the three-year-olds, the stakes are: Ike Travel--. Stakes of ,000, at a mile and a quarter; the Alabama Stakes, for BUies, at a mile and an eighth, with ,300 added: the Huron Handicap, of a mile ami three-sixteenths, with . two guaranteed; the Saranac Handicap, "f a mile, with ,000 guaranteed; the Mohawk stake--. seUing. of a mile. with ,900 guaranteed: the Seneca Stakes, selling, of three-quarters, with ,500 guaranteed. The tWO-year-olds are well brf.ked after with the following list of fixtures: Saratoga Special, of three-quarters, the sporting stake which has a piece of plate of SI. 010 added: the Adirondack Handicap, of three-quarters, with ,000 guaranteed; the San.rd Memorial Stakes, of $:;.."i0o guaranteed, at three-quarters; the Flash stakes. i yni. ami a half furlongs with .01:0 guaranteed: the Albany Handicap, of three-quarters, with .0110 guaranteed; the Troy stake-, sealing, f .5 0 guaranteed, and over the the and a hall furlongs distance; and the Kentucky Stakes, selling, for Bllies, at tive and a half furlongs, with ,600 guaranteed. These with the Hopeful, Grand Cnkm and the United States Hotel Slakes, that have already been closed, rjve the two-year-olds a rare opportunity at Saratoga.
