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NOMINATIONS TO LAUREL PARK STAKES Over One Thousand Horses Named for the Twenty Two Feature Events of Fall Racing RacingLaurel Laurel Md September 7 The twentytwo stakes the Maryland State Fair Corporation opened three or four weeks back for decision at Laurel Park during the coming October race meeting have attracted upwards of 1000 nominations 1007 to he exact and the horses named for them are among the best in the land Many of the twoyearold and threeyearold stars together with the best of the horses of mature age hjtve been named for the important Laurel stakes and these will be followed to Maryland in October by hundreds of second niters Racing at Laurel Park will be well worth while this fall The daily distribution among horse ¬ men of the Maryland State Kalr Corporation group ¬ ing stake values witli purse valnes will be some ¬ thing like more than 8000 The total distribution in stakes and purses for the twentysix days of racing will be in the neighborhood of 230000 230000The The Maryland State Fair Corporation has not said its last word as regards its stake program If any such rivalry as that which developed last fall between Hourless and Omar Khayyam recurs this year Col Matt Winn is prepared to give the as ¬ pirants for championship fame whether they be three or fouryearolds a chance to fight it out at Laurel Park under conditions that will make fighting well worth while Colonel Winn would like nothing better than to renew the McLean Cup the initial running of which was signalized last fall by Hourless epochal victory over Omar Khayyam KhayyamThe The thousand and more entries for Laurel Parks twentytwo stakes were distributed as follows Laurel Handicap 44 Howard Selling Stakes 51 Baltimore Handicap 43 Washington Handicap 41 Anne Arundel Stakes 47 Canvasback Stakes 50 Ellicott City Handicap 41 Dixie Handicap 30 National Handicap 48 Annapolis Stakes 4i Jllne Point Stakes 50 Maryland Handicap 57 Potomac Handicap 54 Blue and Gray Handicap 57 Martha Washington Handicap 34 Liberty Loan 57 Co Inmbus Handicap 50 Georgetown Stakes 57 Prince George Stakes 05 Carrolton Handicap 37 Royal Blue Steeplechase 23 and Chevy Chase Steeple chase 17 17HIGH HIGH QUALITY OF ENTRIES SHOWN SHOWNAn An inspection of the rosters of three or four of the more important races will show the high quality of the entries The Dixie Handicap a race of a mile and a quarter for threeyearolds and over Has attracted among other good performers Eyelid Lucullite Exterminator Papn Hollister War Cloud Hand Grenade The Porter Sunny Slope Boamer Arriet Tombolo Boniface Bondage Cudgel LEr rant Omar Khayyam Westy Hogan Slippery Elm and Highland Lad These noted racers and others are in the National Washington and Baltimore Handicaps HandicapsThe The popularity of twoyearold racing over a long distance of ground is attested by the liberality with which the wealthy horsemen of Canada and the United States have made nominations in the Poto ¬ mac Handicap Laurel Parks great mile race for twoyearolds Among the youngsters eligible to go in the Potomac are Lord Brighton Purchase Be Frank Sweep On Terentia Lady Kosebud Balus ¬ trade Rodgers Eternal Bank Note War Pennant War Marvel Translate Ticklish Billy Kelly Pass ¬ ing Shower Sea Pirate and Thunderlx lt These youngsters are all in the Maryland Handicap with other twoyearolds whose owners do not Iwlieve they care fqr so great a distance as one mile mileThat That the best there is In American sportsmanship is represented by the nominations for the laurel Park stakes is apparent by a glance over the nomi ¬ nators which includes Col W E Applegate J Griffith Maj August Belmont Lieut Raymond Belmont A K Maeomber Kithard F Carman George Smith Edward Cebrian W K Coe Robert L Gerry C E Clements the Folly Farm Willis Sharpe Kilmer Cornelius Garrison F IJ Hitch ¬ cock Walter M Jeffords Mrs Walter M Jeffords George W Loft Joseph E Widener George D Widencr the Meadow Brook Farm John Lumsden Frederick Hoiisman E R McLean C W Parsons George Wingfield J W Parrish Capt Ral Parr T P Thome Commander J K L Ross Saluuul Ross of Washington Morton L Schwartz Wilfrid Viau A II Morris Robert Walden Andrew Miller Hi K Knapp Richard T Wilson E T Zollicoffor Godfrey Preece II Rozier Dtilany Henry T Ox riard James G Oxnard J H Rosseter W G Starr Samuel I Riddle Anthqny L Aste S C Hildreth James Arthur G K Bryson Philip T Chinu and others
