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MARYLAND JOCKEY 6LUBS RICH STAKES. Two with 0,000 Added for Its Fall, Meeting and Others of Increased Values. Baltimore, Md., July 10. The Maryland Jockey Club, which conducts its racing at the picturesque Pimlico course, will make the strongest bid this coining autumn for the support of horsemen and of patrons of racing ever made by a racing organization in Maryland. The program for the first fortnight of November compares favorably with any offered by the Coney Island Jockey Club, which was always the most enterprising and liberal of New York organizations ill the flush days of racing at Sheepshead Bay. The Waldcn, Pimlicos popular mile race for two-year-olds, will have ,000 added next fall and in succeeding years. The Bowie Cup, a handicap at one mile and a half, for three-year-olds and over, instituted in 1009 and won in its first running by Fitz Herbert, will hereafter cost the Maryland Jockey Club 0,000 added, as will also the Manley Memorial, a steeplechase at two miles and a half, for four-year-olds and over, inaugurated last, year and named for the late William M. Manley. who was president of the Maryland Jockey Club during the last fifteen years of his life. The Manley Memorial was a ,000 rate last year: The Elk-ridge, Pimlicos comparatively new cross-country race at two miles, for three-year-old fencers, will pay ,000 added to the winner and a new race at one mile and a quarter, for flat running, three-year-olds, that will be known as the Pimlico Autumn Handicap, has been provided for. The Pimlico Autumn Handicap will have ,000 added. Stakes that will be renewed at increased values are the Arlington and Monumental, the distances of which will be one mile and a sixteenth and one mile and three-sixteenths, respectively and the Pimlico Autumn Serial Handicap, Numbers 1, 2 and 3, the distances of which will be three-quarters, one mile and one mile and an eighth respectively. The Maryland Jockey Club will add ,000 each to the Arlington and Monumental and ,500 each to the Serial Handicaps. And there will be a new-selling race for three-year-olds and over, at one mile and a quarter, called the Pimlico Autumn Selling race, that will cost the club ,500 added. Money for Fourth Horse in Big Races. In the bigger races there will be money for four horses. The Bowie Cup and the Manley Memorial the 0,000 races will pay ,000 to the second, ,000 to the third and S500 to the fourth. The Walden and Pimlico Autumn Handicaps will each pay ,000 to the second, 00 to the third, and 50 to the fourth. The Elkridge will pay 00 to the second, 50 to the third and 50 to the fourth. The Maryland Jockey Club will continue its plan of racing without charging entrance money in stakes. This practice will be continued in connection with these races, but the starting fees in the Bowie Cup and Stanley Memorial will be 50; in the Walden, Elkridge and Pimlico Autumn Handicaps 00 and in the smaller races 5. All of these stakes will close on September 22. The only two-year-old stake race the Maryland Jockey Club will close in September will be the Pimlico Nursery, a dash of four and a half furlongs, to be run next spring. This race will have a value of ,500 added. It is the only race of any sort the Maryland Jockey Club closes for yearlings. The Pimlico management is on record as being opposed to early closing stakes. Its practice has been to effect the widest possible distribution of its money by building up overnight races and smnll stakes and the application of this theory, has in the last three or four years vastly improved racing at Baltimore. The overnight purses of the coming autumn meeting at Pimlico will be greater than any offered by any other race course in the east and the overnight program will be framed to encourage long distance running.
