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FALLING OFF IN NUMBERS Entries to Belmont Park Stake Events Less Than Last Year Quality of Nominations Offsets Numerical Loss H P Whit ney Heads the List New York November 19 Notwithstanding tlie bright prospects in the early mails containing entries for the Belmont Park stakes which closed last Friday the final returns show a marked falling off in nuniliers compared with last year This was an ¬ ticipated somewhat due to the retirement of the Wiekliffo Stud and the absence of Major August Bclmont Lieutenant G A Cochran and other promi ¬ nent turfmen engaged in government work workThen Then is hardly an entry from Kentucky and local owners with be exception of Harry Payne Whit ¬ ney were not lavish in their entries Even John Sanford has nominated an average of only three horse to each stake stakeW W It Coe has average aliout five yearlings to the stakes for the juvenile division and John E Mad dens average is only eight to the events for two yearolds A 1C Macomlxr who last year had from fifteen to eigliteen yearlings eligible for stakes inil the same number in events for older horses shows quite a falling off though he has evidently done his best having entered seven In the Metro ¬ politan six in the Toboggan and five in the Subur ¬ ban Major Belmont niade only one entry Mad Hatter in the Metropolitan and Toboggan Handi ¬ caps It will be recalled Major Itelmont sold all his yearlings at Saratoga last summer summerII II I Whitney is the largest nominator by a goodly margin and is represented in all events Commander JK L Hoss comes next His entries average seven to a stake It T Wilson has made Init two entries entriesHacing Hacing Secretary A Mcl Earlocker explains the Itcrease in nnmliers of entries to the fact that seldom in the history of the turf has a year passed that left such highclass material as the present year and what the stakes will lack in numbers will be made up in the quality of the nominations Mr Earlocker predicts Ihat the raring of ISJlJ will eclipse that of the good old days daysThe The following is he comparative list of the en trifs for the years 1918 and 1 10 10Stake Stake 191S 1919 Metropolitan 1919Metropolitan Handicap 8 79 Suburban 79Suburban Handicap 81 53 Toboggan 53Toboggan f7Indies Handicap SO f7 Indies Handicap 00 45 5fiIlollis Harlem 45Harlem Selling Stakes 7 5fi Ilollis Selling Stakes 59 40 40Juvenile Juvenile Stakes 154 100 Keene 100Keene Memorial Stakes 150 95 Fsshlon 95Fsshlon Stakes 110 75 BGiiijiiet 75BGiiijiiet Stakes 102 7 7Total Total 920 C77 C77Stakes Stakes to Be Bun in 1920 1920Stake Stake 1919 1920 1920Bclmont Bclmont Stakes 15S 2 2Withers Withers Stakes ISO 101 101Realisation Realisation Stakes 97 70 70Coaching Coaching Club Oaks 149 75 75Total Total r S4 328
