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HARVEST OF TWOYEAROLD STAKES The harvest season at Saratoga is near at hand And what a wonderful harvest it will be A golden harvest for the owner with a highclass twoyear old in his stable A harvest of 100000 iu stake races alone not to say anything of valuable over ¬ night purses Little wonder is it then that owners have been saving and priming their best youngsters for this harvest time timeFourteen Fourteen juvenile stake races with the guaranteed value of over 100000 is indeed a tempting dish to be placed before horsemen during the twentysix days of racing at the Spa The Hopeful Stakes is the most valuable of these events having 30000 guaranteed but its gross value will be considerably over that figure as 219 nominations bring the amount to 31550 without including the starting foes It is estimated that the Saratoga Special will be of a gross value of 20000 or more while the United States Hotel Stakes and Grand Union Hotel Stakes each are of 10000 guaranteed The Spiimway has 7500 guaranteed while the Sanford Memorial and Adirondack Stakes each have a guaranteed value of 5000 5000In In all the other stakes with values less than 5000 the gross value in nearly every case will exceed that named in the conditions because of the large number of nominations Especially is this true in the Flash Stakes the opening day juvenile feature where the guaranteed value is 3500 but 193 nominations have brought it up to 4825 with ¬ out the starting fees being included
