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IMPORTANT STAKE DATES ♦ Kentucky Handicap to Be Decided at Douglas Park June 1. ♦ Saturday, June 22, Set for the Running of the Latonia Derby. 1 "~ i Cincinnati. O.. April 15. — The Kentucky Handicap, of 0,000 added, one mile and a quarter, the richest of American races for horses of all ages, will be run at Douglas Park on Saturday. June 1. and the Latonia Derby, of the same value, one mile and a half, for three -year-olds, which ranks with the Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Handicap as the most important of western races, will be decided at Latonia on Saturday. June 2!i. These im-portant announcements, for which racing enthusiasts throughout the Inited States have been eagerly waiting, were made today by John Hachmeister. general manager of the Latonia and Douglas Park tracks. Both of these great races have filled to the entire satisfaction of Manager Hachmeister and I old out the promise of contests that will challenge the attention of racing devotees throughout the country. The complete list of the dates selected by Manager Hachmeister for the decision of the stake races scheduled for the Douglas Park and Latonia spring meetings is embraced iu the subjoined tabulation: At Douglas Park. Speculation Stakes, selling, for three-year-olds and over. ,500 added, one mile and a sixteenth. Monday. May 27 opening day. Memorial Handicap, for three -year -olds and over. ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile, Thursday. May 30. Kentucky Handicap, for three-year-olds and over. 0,000 added, one mile ::nd a quarter, Saturday. June 1. Spring Trial Stakes, for two-year-olds. ,500 added, five-eighths of a mile. Saturday. June 8. At Latonia. Inaugural Handicap, for three -year -olds and over. ,000 added, one mile and a sixteenth. Friday. June 14 opening dayt. Clipsetta Stakes, for two-year-old fillies. ,000 added, five -eighths of a mile. Wednesday. June li. Latonia Derby, for three-year-olds. 0,000 added. one mile and a half. Saturday. June 22. Harold Stakes, for two-year-old colts and geldings. ,000 added, five eighths of a mile. Wednesday. June 25. Merchants Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and over. ,500 added, one mile. Saturday. June 29. Independence Handicap, for three -year-olds and over. ,500 added, one mile and three-sixteenths. Thursday. July 4. Valuation Stakes, selling, for two-year-olds. SI. 500 added, five and a half furlongs. Saturday. July «. Quickstep Handicap, for three -year -olds and over. ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile. Wednesday. July 10. Cincinnati Trophy, for two -year-olds. ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile, Saturday. July 13.
