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RICH STAKE FOR FILLIES WESTCHESTER RACING ASSOCIATION PROVIDES NOVEL FEATURE OF HUGH VALUE. Event to Be a Serial Running Through the Nest Three Years with a Historic Trophy -to Any Filly Winning Three Times. New York, December 29. The Westchester Racing Association is issuing blanks for a new serial stake, which probably will become one of the most coveted of the American turf. It is for three-year-old fillies. It will lie run in 1917 at the Belmont Park spring meeting as a handicap and the distance will be one and one-eighth miles. It will have a ,000 guaranteed cash value. In 1918 it will again be a handicap, but the distance will be a mile and a quarter and it will have a guaranteed value of 4,000. In 1919 the race will be run as a condition race, the distance one mile and three-eighths, and the guaranteed cash value then will be ,000. This last race will be known as "The Coaching Clubs American Oaks." Entries to these races will all close witli the secretary of the Westchester Racing Association on February I, 1917. To these races the Coachmens Club of America will add the historical Singleton Cup, to become the property of the owner winning the race three times, not necessarily consecutively, and will also add to each race a silver trophy, to become the property of the winning owner of that year. The Singleton Cup is a trophy donated in IS20 by the South Carolina Jockey Club, to be raced for over its Washington course at Charleston. S. C, "to be liable for challenge hereafter, and must be won by the same gentleman three consecutive years, or remain unchallenged during that period before his property in it is complete."
